<P> In British history re-armament covers the period between 1934 and 1939, when a substantial programme of re-arming the nation was undertaken . </P> <P> After World War I, dubbed "the war to end all wars", Britain (along with many other nations) had wound down its military capability . The Ten Year Rule said that a "great war" was not expected in the next ten years; this policy was abandoned in 1932 . </P> <P> Germany was not considered a threat during the 1920s, but the situation changed radically when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and withdrew Germany from the League of Nations and the Geneva Disarmament conference . </P>

British rearmament in the 1930s a chronology and review