Hitler's foreign policy Flashcards
Foreign policy aims Mein Kampf
Expand Aryan race, Destroy Jews
Expansion into Russian territory
Lebensraum
ToV
Goering Role
Large role over Anschluss in 1938
Made 27 calls to Vienna for this while Hitler was stuttering
Developed an economic empire
Ribbentrop Role
Helped negotiate Anglo-German Naval Agreement
Negotiated Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact
Suggestions only accepted when they were compatible with Hitler’s personal vision
Germany withdraws from Disarmament Conference
October 1933
Non-aggression pact w/ Poland
Jan 1934
Assassination of Dolfuss
July 1934
Plebiscite in the Saar
Jan 1935
Announcement of Luftwaffe
March 1935
Anglo-German naval agreement
June 1935
Germany allowed to build navy 35% size of Britain’s surface fleet and 100% of its submarine fleet
Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
March 1936
Hossbach Memorandum
Nov 1937
Anschluss with Austria
March 1938
Annexation of Sudetenland
Sep 1938
3 million Germans living in Sudetenland
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
March 1939
Invasion 1939
Invasion of Poland