Topic 3 notes

Question 1

Hitler’s Foreign Policy In action

Answer 1

Rearmament - 1933 began + conscription March 1935
Rhineland - March 1936
Saar Plebiscite - 1935
Attempted Anschluss - 1934
Spanish Civil war - 1936
Bombing of Guernica
Anti-Commintern Pact - 1936 + 1937
Rome Berlin Axis
Anschluss 1938

Question 2

Hitler’s Foreign Policy

Answer 2

Abolish ToV
Greater Germany - Aryan
Lebensraum
Communism
Anshluss
World Domination

Question 3

Long term consequences of ToV

Answer 3

Dissatisfied powers
Germany ruined
Nationalism in Germany - Hitler
Displacement of ethnic Germans

Question 4

Rearmament

Answer 4

• Began 1933
• June 1935 Anglo-British naval treaty: German navy 35% of British
• Conscription March 1935
  100,000 1932 vs 950,000 in 1939

Question 5

Attempted Anshluss

Answer 5

July 1934
- Brenner pass troops Mussolini

Question 6

Saar Plebiscite

Answer 6

1935
- Industrial area
- plebiscite
- 90% for Germany

Question 7

Rhineland

Answer 7

March 1936
- 30,000 troops
- not stopped
Britain felt ToV too harsh France occupied with Abyssinia crisis
Went against Locarno and ToV

Question 8

Spanish Civil War

Answer 8

1936
- Mussolini and Hitler both send arms, planes and troops to Spain
- Supporting Franco
- Test Luftwaffe