Hitler's Foreign policies

Question 1

How many foriegn policy aims for Hitler?

Answer 1

3 aims
1. Abolish TOV
2. Expand German territory
3. Defeat communism

Question 2

Foreign policy Aim 1 –> Aboloshing TOV

Answer 2

• Tiny armed forces
• Rhineland demilitarized
• Anschluss + AUstria forbidden
• Germans forced to live in Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland) and Poland

Question 3

Foreign policy aim 2 –> Expand German Territory

Answer 3

• German population was growing
• ’ More living space’ - Hitler = by conquering European land

Question 4

Foreign policy aim 3 –> Defeat communism

Answer 4

• Nazis were fascist which was the exact opposite of communists who ruled Russia
• Hitler was determined to defeat communism which led to a war w/Russia

Question 5

How many steps to War and what are they?

Answer 5

6 Steps
1. Conscription + rearmament
2. Rhineland
3. Sudetenland
4. Czeschoslavakia
5. Nazi - Soviet non-aggression pact
6. Invasion of War

Question 6

1st Step to war –>Conscription and rearmament

Answer 6

• Hitler begins to build his armed forces
• Began rearming Germany in 1933
• Introduced conscription ( calling up men to army) in 1935 which broke TOV but BR and FR let him get away

Question 7

2nd Step to war –> Rhineland

Answer 7

• Hitler invaded Rhineland 7 March 1936 = broke TOV
• German army had 22k soldiers

Question 8

3rd Step to war –> Sudetenland

Answer 8

• Hitler tried to take over Sudetenland in 1938
• Hitler encouraged Sudeten Nazis to demand union w/ Germany
• Hitler made plans to invade Czechoslovakia
• BR and FR gave Hitler Sudetenland during Munich Conference on 28 September 1938

Question 9

4th Step to war –> Czechoslovakia

Answer 9

• Hitler’s troops marched into the rest of Czechoslovakia arch 1939

Question 10

5th Step –> Nazi - Soviet non - aggression pact

Answer 10

• USSR / Nazi - Pact + Poland
• Hitler and Russia signed Aug 1939 = Hitler thinks this would stop BR + FR – Poland and fool Russian into thinking they are on the same team

Question 11

6th Step –> Invasion of war

Answer 11

• Hitler went after Poland in 1939
• Chamberlin premised the poles that BR would support them if GER attacked them
• Hitler invaded Poland from west Sept 1 1939
• BR declared war on GER 3 Sept 1939
• Russia invades Poland from east 17 Sept 1939

Question 12

Stanley baldwin’s quote about Mussolini and Hitler?

Answer 12

He would not go to war “ With 2 lunatics like Mussolini and Hitler, you can never be sure of anything but I am determined to keep the country out of war” Apr 1936