Paper 1 - Chapter 3 - Hitler's Foreign Policy

Question 1

When did Germany withdraw from the League of Nations?

Answer 1

1933

Question 2

When did Hitler sign the 10 year non-aggression pact with Poland?

Answer 2

Jan 1934

Question 3

When did the failed Anschluss happen?

Answer 3

Jul 1934

Question 4

When did the Saar Coalfield return to Germany?

Answer 4

Jan 1935

Question 5

When was the Stresa Front formed?

Answer 5

Apr 1935

Question 6

When was the Anglo German Naval Agreement signed?

Answer 6

Jun 1935

Question 7

When did Mussolini invade Abyssinia?

Answer 7

Oct 1935

Question 8

When was the Rhineland remilitarised?

Answer 8

Mar 1936

Question 9

When was the Rome-Berlin Axis signed?

Answer 9

Oct 1936

Question 10

When did Chamberlain become Prime Minister and so start the policy of appeasement?

Answer 10

May 1937

Question 11

When did Anschluss happen?

Answer 11

Mar 1938

Question 12

When was the Munich Conference?

Answer 12

Sep 1938

Question 13

When did Czechoslovakia fall?

Answer 13

Mar 1939

Question 14

When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed?

Answer 14

Aug 1939

Question 15

When was Poland invaded?

Answer 15

Sep 1939

Question 16

What were Hitler’s three foreign policy aims?

Answer 16

1. Make Germany a great power again
2. Bring back German speaking people within Germany’s borders
3. Lebensraum - living space in the East

Question 17

When did Germany introduce conscription?

Answer 17

1935

Question 18

What was the Stresa Front?

Answer 18

An agreement between Italy, France and Britain to oppose Germany’s rearmament

Question 19

What did the Ten Year Non-Aggression Pact agree?

Answer 19

It confirmed Poland’s borders and assured it that Germany would not try to take back the Polish corridor.

Question 20

Which Austrian was murdered in 1934 and what was his job?

Answer 20

Dolfuss, the Austrian Chancellor

Question 21

Why did Dolfuss die?

Answer 21

He was murdered by the Austrian Nazi Party which had been encouraged to rebel by Hitler.

Question 22

What prevented Hitler’s plans for Anschluss in 1934?

Answer 22

Mussolini moved his troops to the border of Austria promising to guarantee Austrian independence. Hitler also realised that his army wasn’t strong enough to defeat the Italians.

Question 23

What were the terms of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement signed in 1935?

Answer 23

Limited Germany navy to 35% of the British navy.

It didn’t cover submarines.

Question 24

What was the size of the Germany army, navy and air force by 1938?

Answer 24

It had 800,000 men, 47 u-boats, 2,000 aeroplanes

Question 25

What were the implications of the signing of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement?

Answer 25

Gave Britain reassurance after German had left the LofN’s disarmament conference.
Weakened the Stresa Front because Britain hadn’t consulted Italy or France.

Question 26

What percentage of the vote went to:
rejoin Germany
remain under LofN control
join France 
in the Saar plebiscite in Jan 1935?

Answer 26

rejoin Germany - 90%
remain under LofN control - 8%
join France - 2%

Question 27

How did Hitler use the Saar plebiscite to his advantage?

Answer 27

Propaganda celebrated the fact that he had removed one of the injustices of the TofV

Question 28

Was the return of the Saar an illegal event? Explain.

Answer 28

No, because the ToV demanded a plebiscite there after 15 years and the people voted for it to be returned to Germany.

Question 29

Which two international agreements did the remilitarisation of the Rhineland go against?

Answer 29

Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Pact

Question 30

What action was taken when Hitler remilitarised the Rhineland?

Answer 30

Very little.

It was condemned by the LofN, but only Russia voted on imposing sanctions on Germany.

Question 31

Why was no action taken against German after the remilitarisation of the Rhineland?

Answer 31

Britain felt that Hitler was doing nothing wrong and merely walking into its own back yard.
France wasn’t prepared to act without Britain and its government was divided.
Britain and France were focused on the invasion of Abyssinia.