Foreign Policys Flashcards
Policies actions
aims of foreign policy
break treaty of versailles
resore germans military power
gain lebensraum in eastern Europe
create grossdeutsland
two agreements made by germany n other counties 1933 and 37
non aggression pact with poland
anglo german naval agreement
how did hitler break treaty of versailles 1933 and 36
battleships and submadines were built
luftwaffe wss created
sent 14000 soldiers and 22000 police into rhinland 1936
how did the nazis remilitarise the rhieland 1936
marched 22 000 police 15 000 soldiers into rhieland
hitler was uncertain troops had orders to turn back if confronted
Britain was sympathetic to germanys claim that the treaty of versaills was too harsh
France was too weak to take action without Britain’s help
this policy of appeasement followed by Britain and France allowed Hitler to remilitarse the rhineland
in 1934 austrian nazis assassinated who
austrian Chancellor dollfuss
hitler considerd taking over austira at this point but who felt threatened
italian leader Missolini
mussolini moved his toops to the boarder with Austria and hitler done what
changed his plans as he felt the german army was not strong enough to fight Italy
by 1938 who were allies
germany and italy and the german army had grown
Austrian nazis began to do what
put pressure on the government to unite Austria and Germany
hitler forced who to appoint the Austrian nazi leader seyss-inquartas minister of the interior
schuschnigg the Austrian Chancellor
schuschnigg tried to hold a what on what
referendum on whether Austria should join with Germany
Hitler was furious and who was forced to resign
schschnigg
who became the new Austrian Chancellor
seyss-inquart
who did seyss-inquart invite into his country
german troops to restore order
the anschluss was confirmed with a plebiscite…….
in witch 99.7% of Austrian people voting were in favour of it
the sudetenland was a part of were
czechoslovakia that boarderd Germany
Hitler wanted the sudetenland to create what
grossdeutshland
and to gain access to the skoda arms factory
nazis who lived there were directed by their leader who
henlein to stair up trouble they claimed that the czechs were mistresting the germans living there
Hitler stated that he would declare war if what
areas of the sudetenland that were more than 50% German was not given to germany
the British prime minister who met hitler how many times to try avert war
chamberlain
3 times
hitler raised his claim to all of the sudetenland and there were worries that..
war would break out after all
Britain was following the policy of what
appeasement
the conference held in..
Munich September 1938
who was at the conference
chamberlain
daladier-french leader
Mussolini-itilan leader
chamberlain Daladier and Mussolini all agreed what
to give hitler all of the sudetenland
this was known as what
the Munich agreement
who was not consulted in the Munich Agreement
czechoslovakia
when the germans took the sudentenland in….
they gained control of what
1938
czechoslovakias borders defences
this made it easier for them to target the rest of the country which Hitler wanted for what
lebensraum
germany invaded Czechoslovakia when
March 1939
the invasion of poland was part of his quest for what snd he also believed what
lebensraum
poles were racially inferior
this was made easier as he had singed the what in order to avoid what
Nazu soviet pact with the USSR
to avoid a war on two fronts
