Foreign Policy

Question 1

what was the 10 year rule?

Answer 1

A rule made by Britain that military estimates would be made on the assumption that they wouldn’t be going to war for another ten years. As a result, military reduced drastically. Churchill renewed it in late 1920s

Question 2

in what year was the ten year rule first made?

Answer 2

1919

Question 3

When did Hitler remove Germany from the League of Nations?

Answer 3

1933

Question 4

In what year did Germany sign the Non-Aggression Pact with Poland?

Answer 4

1934

Question 5

Why did the Polish non-aggression pact go against German foreign policy?

Answer 5

it wasn’t revanchist, Germany wanted the Polish Corridor back, making pacts with people seen as racially inferior and hampering eastwards expansion for lebensraum

Question 6

When was the anglo-German naval agreement?

Answer 6

1935

Question 7

what did the anglo-german naval agreement contravene?

Answer 7

rearmament limitations set out in the Treaty of Versailles

Question 8

when did Italy invade Abyssinia?

Answer 8

1935

Question 9

How did Britain and France react to Italian invasion of Abyssinia and what effect did this have on Hitler?

Answer 9

They circumvented LoN to try and resolve it, and introduced sanctions that wouldn’t have actually punished Italy, showing Hitler that they weren’t taking themselves seriously and leading to even more action on his part

Question 10

when was the Stresa Front created, who was involved and who was it against?

Answer 10

April 1935. Britain, Italy, France. Against Germany

Question 11

What did Hitler do in 1935 to get Italy on side?

Answer 11

He gave up his revanchist designs for South Tyrol

Question 12

When did Germany remilitarise the Rhineland, what happened in response?

Answer 12

1936. Poland prepared to go to war with them while Britain and France did nothing. Poland exposing themselves as a potential threat to Germany and Brit and France showing they weren’t willing to go to war

Question 13

when was the anti-comintern pact signed, between who and who against?

Answer 13

1936, between Japan and Germany against Russia

Question 14

Who was offered the chance to join the anti-Comintern pact in 1939 and why did they refuse?

Answer 14

Poland - thought that Poland would almost definitely invade if they did

Question 15

What country did Germany and Italy help in 1936? What did the LoN do?

Answer 15

Spain. Nothing. Led to Rome-Berlin Axis

Question 16

When was the Hossbach Memorandum and what was it??

Answer 16

1937, a meeting where Hitler outlined his plans for war in the early 1940s with an aim for Eastern expansion for Lebensraum

Question 17

Which two members of the armed forces were dismissed as a result of the Hossbach Memorandum? Why? When?

Answer 17

Blomberg and Fritsch, because they didn’t agree with HItler’s plans laid out at Hossbach. 1939

Question 18

When did Germany invade Sudetenland?

Answer 18

October 1938

Question 19

When was the Munich Conference and what did they decide?

Answer 19

30th Sep, 1938. Decided that Germany could have Sudetenland and Hitler assured Chamberlain that there wouldn’t be a war. Russia was excluded

Question 20

When did Germany take over the rest of Czechoslovakia and what happened as a result?

Answer 20

March, 1939. Britain issued the Polish Guarantee

Question 21

When was the Pact of Steel signed?

Answer 21

22nd May 1939

Question 22

When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed?

Answer 22

23rd August 1939

Question 23

When did Germany invade Poland?

Answer 23

1st September 1939

Question 24

When did Britain declare war on Germany?

Answer 24

3rd September 1939