Road to War

Question 1

Consequences of ToV

Answer 1

Hitler used it as an excuse
Justification for appeasement
Caused death of LoN
Undermined Weimar Republic

Question 2

Consequences of failure of LoN

Answer 2

Rise of dictators: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Franco
Increase in individual treaties
Rearmament

Question 3

Hitler Foreign Policy

Answer 3

see revision week notes

Question 4

Appeasement bad

Answer 4

Gave Hitler more resources and land
Encouraged Hitler
Gave Hitler time to rearm
Worried the USSR

Question 5

Appeasement good

Answer 5

Gave allies time to rearm
British public were not ready for war
Treaty of Versailles was too harsh
Hitler was an ally against communism

Question 6

Why did war break out?

Answer 6

Appeasement failed
League of Nations failed
Hitler was openly dishonest & agressive
Change in public opinion
Britain and France were prepared

Question 7

Anti-Commintern Pact

Answer 7

Germany and Japan
Opposition of Communism
1936

Question 8

Guernica

Answer 8

Spanish village bombed during Spanish Civil War (April 1937)

Question 9

Lebenstraum

Answer 9

Idea that Germany would expand territory towards the east for Arians
‘Living Space’

Question 10

Luftwaffe

Answer 10

German Airforce

Leader: Hermann Goering

Question 11

Maginot Line

Answer 11

French defensive line to protect Alsace-Lorraine and guard against Germany

Question 12

Stresa Front

Answer 12

Agreement between France, Britain and Italy in opposition to Hitler’s opposition