Road to War

Question 1

Why was Japan unhappy with the ToV?

Answer 1

1. Rejection of racial equality clause
2. Small share of German trading rights

Question 2

Why was Italy unhappy with the ToV?

Answer 2

1. Didn’t receive Fiume
2. Wanted more German colonies

Question 3

Why was Manchuria bad?

Answer 3

LoN had failed to take action against Japan so the Axis realised the League wouldn’t do anything to prevent expansion

Question 4

Why was Abyssinia bad?

Answer 4

League’s inability to act meant Hitler could continue with plans against the ToV

Question 5

Hitler’s foreign policy - ToV

Answer 5

Break disarmament clause, remilitarise Rhineland and regain lost territory

Question 6

Hitler’s foreign policy - communism

Answer 6

Fight Soviet Russia

Question 7

Hitler’s foreign policy - greater Germany

Answer 7

Extend Germany to other German populated countries

Question 8

Hitler’s foreign policy - lebensraum

Answer 8

More land for Germany Eastwards

Question 9

Hitler’s foreign policy - Empire

Answer 9

Hitler to be the leader of the most powerful European state

Question 10

How Germany 1st went against ToV (1933)

Answer 10

Refused to pay reparations and secretly began to rearm

Question 11

Why did Hilter sign the 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland (1934)

Answer 11

So he could make a move against Austria or Czechoslovakia

Question 12

What is Anschluss?

Answer 12

The annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany (1938) without Allied response

Question 13

What was the result of Saar plebiscite?

Answer 13

Return to Germany

Question 14

What was the Stresa Front?

Answer 14

Alliance against Hitler’s rearmament after conscription reintroduced (550,000)

Question 15

What was the Anglo-German Naval agreement?

Answer 15

Britain allowed Germany to expand Navy to 35% of Britain’s navy

Question 16

What was Hitler’s remilitarisation of Rhineland

Answer 16

Marched his troops in without Allied response (1936)

Question 17

Why did Spanish Civil War help Hitler?

Answer 17

1. Try to get Spain as an ally
2. Test out Luftwaffe
3. Draw Mussolini away from Britain and France
4. Distract western diplomats from central European affairs

Question 18

What was anti cominterm pact

Answer 18

Italy, Germany and Japan against communism

Question 19

What was Munich agreement?

Answer 19

Areas in Sudetenland with majority German population were to be given to Germany (Hitler later demanded all Sudetenland)

Question 20

Munich Conference

Answer 20

Czechoslovakia abandoned to Germany and Chamberlain’s ‘Peace for our time’ (Hitler later took rest of Czechoslovakia)

Question 21

Why was Nazi-Soviet pact significant?

Answer 21

1. Between two opposing ideologies
2. Hitler would not be attacked by Russia while at war with France
3. Stalin got time to ready Soviet defences

Question 22

What happened September 1939?

Answer 22

Declaration of war by Allies after Nazi invasion of Poland