Topic 7 Hitlers Foreign Policy Flashcards
What were the 4 main aims of Hitlers foreign policy?
- reverse Treaty of Versailles
- destroy communism
- unite all German speaking people
- lebensraum (living space)
When did Hitler reintroduce conscription?
March 1935
When did Hitler remilitarise the Rhineland?
March 1936
Why did Britain and France not do anything to stop Hitler remilitarising the Rhineland?
Preoccupied with crisis between Italy (Mussolini) and Abyssinia
When did Hitler form an Anschluss with Austria?
March 1938
When was the Sudetenland crisis?
September 1938
What was the Sudetenland crisis?
Hitler demanded that the German speaking part of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland)be given to Germany
What was the result of the Munich Conference?
Agreed to the transfer of the Sudetenland to Germany
When did Germany take over the rest of Czechoslovakia?
March 1939
When did Hitler sign the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact?
August 1939
What did the Nazi-Soviet Pact include?
secret agreement to divide Poland between Germany and USSR
When did Germany invade Poland?
1 September 1939
When did Britain and France declare war on Germany?
3 September 1939
