Germany

Question 1

How did German expansionism emerge?

Answer 1

1. largely in response to the perceived failure of liberalism
2. aimed to address the sense of national resentment and humiliation following the end of WW1
   TOV

Question 2

Why did Hitler want to expand Eastward?

Answer 2

1. necessary for population
2. highest species of humanity - required to acquire land and soil
3. “collosal empire in the east is ripe for dissolution”
4. struggling to retain its status as world power

Question 3

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 3

lost the polish corridor to Poland
lost access to the port Danzig
lost all oversees colonies
lost 13% erupoen colonies

army of 100k - no conscription
no submarines/tanks/aircraft
6 battleships

demilitarised Rhineland

War guilt clause - had to accept responsibility for starting the war

reparations cost
£6.6 billion decided in 1921
to be paid over 60 years

cast out of League of Nations

Question 4

what did hitler want to do?

Answer 4

regain territories lost to France and Poland
autarky
expand eastwards to Russia
outlined in mein kämpf
ifnluched by racism: aryan supremacy

Question 5

advantage gained by Geneva International Disarmament conference

Answer 5

continued to 1934
france and britain could not rearm because it looked tow-faced and unreliable
this gave germany an 18 month advantage

hitler never agreed to disarmament
revoked the clause in TOV

Question 6

Anscluss

Answer 6

union between Germany and austria
hitler was v keen for this
expressly forbidden in TOV
after Austrian chancellor was murdered by Austrian Nazis in an attempted coup
wanted to ‘restore order’
was a ploy to invade

but
Mussolini wards HItler off
w/ v public warning
moves troops to Italian/austrain border

hitler backs off

Question 7

rearmament in germany