Foreign Policy

Question 1

Foreign Policy 5 aims
(DRAGP)

Answer 1

Destroy communism
Reverse TofV
Anchluss
Lebensraum
Unite all German People

Question 2

Disarmament Conference

Answer 2

1932
60 nations met to decide how they would disarm and keep peace
Hitler withdrew and pledged to build up his army

Question 3

2 events in 1934

Answer 3

Non Aggression Pact with Poland
- Hitler signed this to agree to accept the boarder and ⬆️ trading

Attempted Anschluss
- Austrian Nazis encouraged a union with Germany
- Austrian chancellor opposed this but he was assassinated

Question 4

2 events in 1935

Answer 4

Saarland Plebiscite
- democratic vote showed 90% of Saarland pop wanted to reunite with Germany

Rearmament and Conscription
- Hitler announced publicly Germany was building up their forces to 1.4 million men by 1939 (through RAD and compulsory conscription)
- justified this because France and SU were building up theirs

Question 5

2 events in 1936

Answer 5

The Rhineland
- key industrial region of Germany (taken from them due to TofV)
- Hitler marched 22000 troops and reoccupied the Rhineland

Alliances with Italy/Japan
Italy 🔄 Rome-Berlin Axis
Japan 🔄 Anti-Comintern Pact

• both followed similar foreign policy (anti-communist)

Question 6

2 events in 1938

Answer 6

Sudetenland Crisis
- part of Czechoslovakia and contained 3 million Germans
- german troops occupied it and gained lots of valuable resources

Anschluss
- 96% Austrians were German speaking
- Austrian chancellor bullied then replaced by a Nazi
- Hitler marched troops into Austria, held a referendum and now had full control

Question 7

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 7

1939
Germany and USSR sign a non-aggression pact to keep peace
- Hitler now doesn’t have to fight a war on 2 fronts

Question 8

Invasion of Poland

Answer 8

1939
Lead to WW2!