2.5. Foreign Policy

Question 1

Who was the Foreign Minister from 1923-29?

Answer 1

Gustav Stresseman

Question 2

What was the policy of fulfilment called?

Answer 2

Erfülungspolitik

Question 3

What were Stresemann’s key aims which he set out in a letter to Kaiser Wilhelm’s son?

Answer 3

“The solution of the reparations question”
“The protection of Germans abroad… under a foreign yoke”
“The readjustment of our eastern frontiers”

Question 4

What was the 1922 Treaty of Rapollo?

Answer 4

Germany dropped Brest-Litovsk demands in return for a secret military alliance

Question 5

What were Germany’s 5 objectives in foreign policy?

Answer 5

Use trade as a lever for better relations
Restore Franco-German relations
Maintain friendship with USSR for security
Encourage cooperation and peace
Restore Germany as a great power

Question 6

When was the Locarno Pact signed?

Answer 6

October 1925

Question 7

How did the Locarno Pact strengthen Franco-German relations?

Answer 7

Germany accepted its Western borders

France could not invade in case of a dispute between Germany and Poland or Czechoslovakia

Question 8

What was the weakness of the 1925 Locarno Pact?

Answer 8

Did not force Germany to accept its Eastern borders

Question 9

What did Stresemann win for his work on the Locarno Pact?

Answer 9

Nobel Peace Prize

Question 10

When did Germany join the League of Nations?

Answer 10

September 1926

Question 11

What was Germany granted within the League of Nations?

Answer 11

Place on the League Council with veto power

Question 12

How did Germany’s admittance to the League of Nations contribute towards its objectives?

Answer 12

Encouraged cooperation

Germany developing back into a great power

Question 13

When was the Treaty of Berlin signed?

Answer 13

April 1926

Question 14

What did the Treaty of Berlin accomplish?

Answer 14

Further military and economic ties with USSR

Question 15

What did both Germany and Russia have in common with regards to Poland?

Answer 15

Poland seen as a threat to security, with sizeable German and Russian minorities existent within it

Question 16

What was implied by the signing of the Treaty of Berlin?

Answer 16

Germany still had ambitions to recover land in the East

Question 17

What affect did the Treaty of Berlin have in the allies?

Answer 17

Pressured them into cooperating with a Germany or else risk loosing them to Soviet Russia

Question 18

How did Germany subvert the disarmament requirements of Versailles?

Answer 18

Close relationship with paramilitary groups
Secretly built weapons in Spain and Sweden
Secretly tested weapons and trained recruits in Russia

Question 19

Who was Chief of the Army at this time?

Answer 19

General Von Seeckt

Question 20

Over what period did the French withdraw from the Rhineland?

Answer 20

1926-30

Question 21

What 2 events were key in French withdrawal?

Answer 21

Locarno Pact

Young Plan

Question 22

When was the Kellog-Briand Pact signed?

Answer 22

1928

Question 23

What was the Kellog-Briand Pact?

Answer 23

An agreement to renounce the use of offensive wars