Nazi Foreign Policy - Timeline aims Flashcards
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
What happened on October 14 1933
- Germany leaves the League of Nations and Disarmament Conference in Geneva.
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
What was the League of Nations
- An international body established in 1920 to encourage disarmament and diplomacy and prevent war.
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
What happened on January 26th 1934
- Germany and Poland signed a Non-Aggression Pact.
- The Pact meant that Poland could not join the USSR in an attack on Germany
- -Poland stood between Germany and the USSR and was, therefore, a useful ally-
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
What happened in Autumn 1936
- Visit to Britain - Hitler sent Ribbentrop to London as Germany’s new ambassador with the specified objective of securing an agreement with Britain.
- Hitler was committed to the idea of a British alliance as a way of securing his long-term aim of crushing the USSR.
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
What happened on November 1st 1936
- Rome-Berlin Axis - following the Outbreak of Spanish Civil War
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
What was the Rome-Berlin Axis
- Following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Italy announced the Rome-Berlin Axis,
- which promised mutual support short of war and political, economic and ideological cooperation.
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
What happened on November 25th 1936
Anti-Comintern Pact
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
What was the Anti-Comintern Pact
- Germany and Japan established the Anti-Comintern (anti-communist) Pact,
- which outlined the amount of aid to give if an attack by the USSR seemed likely
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
How was the Anti-Comintern Pact useful to Germany
- Relations between Japan and the USSR had broken down
- following Japan’s defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese war
- so it was useful for Germany to have an ally geographically on the east of the USSR
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
What happened on May 22nd 1939
Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steel
Making Strategic Alliances with other countries
What was the Pact of Steel
- Germany and Italy were both committed both to close economic ties and promised mutual military aid/support in the event of war
Breaking/ Overturning the ToV
What happened on July 25th 1933
- Failed Nazi putsch and political coup in Austria.
- Mussolini responded by moving 40,000 Italian troops to the Austro-Italian frontier
- (Austria was an important buffer state between Germany and Italy).
What is a coup
- a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
Breaking/ Overturning the ToV
What happened on March 16th 1935
- Rearmament:
- Germany announced the existence of a Luftwaffe (the German air force)
- introduced conscription
- announced it was rearming inc a peacetime army of 550,000
Breaking/ Overturning the ToV
What happened on June 18th 1935
- Britain and Germany signed the Naval Agreement
- This ignored the ToV and allowed Germany to have a navy 35% of the strength of the British fleet