Appeasement And Road To War #7: Hitler’s Foreign Policy Flashcards
1
Q
What is ‘foreign policy’?
A
A term used to define how one country plans to interact and deal with foreign countries.
2
Q
What does Hitler’s foreign Policy refer to?
A
- The way that Hitler dealt with other countries and made Germany stronger
- How his actions and policies fitted into an overriding plan that had exact targets
3
Q
Mein Kampf translation
A
‘My Struggle’
4
Q
When did Hitler become leader of the Nazis?
A
1920
5
Q
What was Hitler imprisoned for?
A
The failed Munich Putsch
6
Q
When was the Munich Putsch
A
8-9 November 1923
7
Q
What did Hitler write in prison?
A
Mein Kampf (My struggle)
8
Q
What was Mein Kampf?
A
- Partly an autobiography
- Partly his beliefs
- Where he outlined his foreign policy aims
9
Q
Revenge for the Treaty of Versailles?
A
- The ToV must be destroyed
- Hitler wanted to rearm and make Germany the strongest military power in Europe
- This wasn’t possible due to the economic, political, and military restrictions on Germany from ToV
10
Q
Gross Deutschland (Greater Germany)
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- Hitler believed all Germans had a right to live in Germany
- He was prepared to expand the German borders to accommodate this
- Many Germans had found themselves living outside of Germany after the territorial terms of the ToV, whilst Germany and Austria were forbidden from uniting
11
Q
Lebensraum (Living Space)
A
- Hitler wanted Germany to have all the land and resources it needed to survive and grow strong
- He planned a war to take over the smaller countries of eastern Europe and most of Eastern Russia
12
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Extermination of the untermenschen (sub-humans)
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- Hitler believe Aryans/Germans were the master race and Jews and Slavs were inferior subhumans
- He believed they only lived to serve the master race
- Hitler planned a race war where the German master race would take land and resources from the ‘inferior’ people of Eastern Europe
