German Foreign Policy Flashcards
Ready for war
1940
Anglo-German Pact
Allowed for 1/3 of Britains Navy size
German army
Grew from 500-900k in 1939
Hitler desire for war
1937 HossBach meeting
Autarky
Self production/autarky failed
Preperation
Germany was not prepared for war in 1939
Lebensraum
to make up for lost territory at versailles
First country invaded
Austria in 1938, 2nd time due to musso
Second country
Czechoslovakia, Saarland seized
Allie intervention
Hitler assumed they wouldnt stop his policies
German public
The geran public did not want war
Ussr Pact
Non aggresion pact in 1939
Nazi Soviet pact
Allowed for germany to have mass invansion power
Britain and france
declared war in 1939
1939
Hitler invades Poland