Germany Section C Flashcards
Hitler’s (racial) ideology - MF
Caused war: Underlying. Led him to plan a war of expansionism.
Knew he could not achieve expansionism without war.
Mein Kampf
Stufenplan
Secret Book
Lebensraum
Pan Germanism
Aryan racial theory
Social darwinism
Anti-Slav: Poland
Anschluss
Judeo-Bolshevism
War of annihilation
War central to his ideologies
Nuremberg Laws
Hitler intended and planned / desire for war - MF
Caused war: Always intended war (aimed for 1942)
Nazi 25 Points programme
Remilitarisation
Mein Kampf
Stufenplan
Secret Book
4 Year Plan
Hossbach Memo
Ideology (see above)
Luftwaffe 1935
Mefo Bills
Hitler unique - MF
Caused war: Took it further than anyone else (further than 2nd Reich, further expansionism than other powers)
Mein Kampf
Stufenplan
Secret Book
Ideology (see above)
Weimar policy of fulfilment completely different to overturning TOV
Fuhrerprinzip / working towards the Fuhrer
Calculated risk - MF
This means that he knew the western powers might intervene but took the risk anyway.
Caused war: Hitler was willing to risk war as he intended to go to war at some point.
He knew there was a chance Br/Fr would intervene March 1939 Polish Guarantee (Br+Fr governments)
British and French increased re-armament programmes 1939
British military alliance with Poland Aug 1939
Hope for local war
Blitzkrieg
Maginot Line
Nazi Soviet Pact
USA isolationism (go to war now rather than later when they change policy)
Miscalculation - MF or CF if against Hitler planned / desire / H ideology / calculated risk
This means he thought that the western powers would not intervene. He made a mistake / misunderstood / blunder.
Caused war: Hitler made a mistake in assuming Br/Fr inaction. Intended war 1943 not 1939.
OR
Contributed: timing.
British / French miscalculated but not a mistake by Hitler (planned) - same evidence as appeasement (see below)
Wanted to ally with British
British refused Polish request for a loan
Pact of Steel
Hope for local war
Blitzkrieg
British inaction over Czechoslovakia
Increasing anti-German British press and public - Hitler unaware
Hitler thought Britain would not support a Polish authoritarian dictatorship when they had not defended democratic Czechoslovakia
Nazi-Soviet Pact emboldened Hitler
Appeasement - CF
Contributed: timing / gave Hitler confidence in his plans (war 1942)
Hossbach Memo and Pact of Steel / told Ciano and Mussolini in 1939 that war would happen in 1942/43
Inaction over remilitarisation, Czechoslovakia, Anschluss, AGNA
TOV & guilt
French political weaknesses - 11 changes of govt 1932-35
External factors - CF
Contributed: timing / gave Hitler confidence in his plans
Hossbach Memo and Pact of Steel / told Mussolini
Inaction over remilitarisation, Czechoslovakia, Anschluss, AGNA
LON weak/ inaction over SCW, Abyssinia, Manchuria
Munich Conference
USA isolationism
German history / 30 Years War - CF
Contributed: He built on previous expansionist ideas / anti TOV sentiment. It influenced him.
Gave him support he needed and influenced him, but Hitler took it further
Holy Roman Empire/2nd Reich
Stab in Back
November Criminals
September Programme
Weltpolitik / Flottenpolitik
Secret Rearmament Weimar - Phoebus Film Company
Polish Corridor
Withdrew from LON
Saarland referendum
Remilitarisation of the Rhineland (referendum)
Anschluss (referendum)
Czechoslovakia
Pan-German League
Other German leaders / German army
Contributed: led on remilitarisation and preparing for war, hid failures from Hitler.
But ultimately - Furherprinzip & working towards the Fuhrer
Blomberg-Fritsch affair
4 Year Plan
Hossbach Memo
Conscription
Stab in Back myth
Goering - hid failures of 4YP from Hitler
Von-Neurath: more pragmatic FP
Von-Ribbentrop (replaced V-N) - more aggressive FP
Keitel
Cumulative radicalisation
Ideological divide - CF
Contributed: weakness of other countries, led Hitler to believe they would not intervene
Spanish Civil War
Fear of Bolshevism
Russian Civil War Whites vs Red
Racial conflict vs class conflict
Anti-Comintern Pact
Nazi economic need - CF
Contributed: timing.
Nazis went to war in 1939 because there was an economic need. Without taking more land they could not complete remilitarisation (war always a plan)
4 Year Plan failures
Lacked a workforce that expansion could provide
Shortage of raw materials
Living standards declining
Worker relations decreasing - war would boose these
Quick local war - Blitzkrieg - would get Nazis the resources they needed.
