Conflict in Europe

Question 1

What was life like in the early 1930s in Germany?

Answer 1

Germany was in the depth of the depression, unemployment was over 30%, violent street battles were a daily occurrence.

Question 2

How many seats did the Nazis win in the 1932 Reichstag elections,

Answer 2

The Nazis gained 230 seats and 37% of the popular vote

Question 3

What did Hitler do after the death of President Hindenburg?

Answer 3

When President Hindenburg died in August 1934, Hitler absorbed the posts of both Chancellor and President and became Fuhrer of Germany

Question 4

Who did the army swear and oath to personally?

Answer 4

Hitler

Question 5

What two words can the Nazi ideology be summed up into?

Answer 5

Lebensraum

race

Question 6

What is meant by the term lebensraum?

Answer 6

Roughly means living space

• Hitler believed that his master race, the Aryan race, would grow to a population of 250 million by the end of the century
• Needed land to expand into
• This land would be found in the east
• War with the soviet union was inevitable

Question 7

What was the Nazi party’s thoughts to race?

Answer 7

• Charles darwin theory
• Survival of the fittest, thus the soviet union must die out
• Voksgeminschaft or peoples community free of the inferior race
• At the bottom of the racial pile were the jews

Question 8

What were the four stages of Nazi Foreign policy?

Answer 8

• Revisionism
• creation of Grossdetschland
• Autarky
• France

Question 9

What was revisionism?

Answer 9

This involved the tearing up of the hated treaty of Versailles

• Ending reparations
• Restoring German military power
• Taking back stolen territories
• re-establishing Germany’s rightful place in Europe
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Question 10

What is meant by the creation of the Grossdeutschland?

Answer 10

This involved bringing back into Reich all those Germans denied their nation in 1919

• Uniting Germany and Austria
• Bringing ‘home those germans forced to live with inferior races in countries like Poland

Question 11

What is meant by Autarky?

Answer 11

If the Versailles Treaty was revised and lost territories were restored, Germany would move closer to economic self-sufficiency. This was important if future expansion was to occur.

Question 12

What is meant by ‘France’?

Answer 12

In Mein Kampf, Hitler said that France would never allow Germany to dominate Europe. Thus, a reckoning with France was inevitable. Once France was dealt with, Hitler could then turn eastwards

Question 13

What happened in 1934 January between Germany and Poland?

Answer 13

Germany and Poland sign a 10-year non-aggression pact

Question 14

What happened in 1936 march Germany?

Answer 14

Remilitarisation of the Rhineland

Question 15

What happened in 1938 September?

Answer 15

The machine conference

Question 16

What happened in the Munich Conference

Answer 16

Hitler demands the cession of the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia to Germany.

Hitler is given the land

Question 17

What happened in march 1939?

Answer 17

The German invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia

Question 18

What happened in 1939 May?

Answer 18

Pact of steel

Question 19

What is the pact of steel?

Answer 19

Germany and Italy sign a ten year military and political alliance

Question 20

When was the Nazi-soviet pact signed?

Answer 20

1939 August

Question 21

What did Germany do in 1939 September?

Answer 21

Invaded Poland

Question 22

`What were some of the reasons for the failure of the League of nations?