Unit Three

Question 1

What happened in the 1930’s that increased conflict

Answer 1

• Japan invaded
• Italy invaded

Question 2

How did the ToV affect Germany?

Answer 2

• Germany hated ToV
  -‘stab in the back myth’
  -Hitler’s foreign policy aimed to destroy ToV

Question 3

What were Hitler’s foreign policy?

Answer 3

-Make germany great again
- destroy ToV
- destroy communism
- acquire lebensraum (living space)
- build a european empire

Question 4

German Expansions + dates

Answer 4

Rhineland (1936)
Spanish civil war (1936-1939)
Anschluss (1938)
Sudetenland (1938)

Question 5

what was the Munich Agreement about?

Answer 5

Britain, France, Italy agreed to give sudetenland to Germany in exchange for a promise of no more invasion.
- this was shortlived

Question 6

How did the league’s failures impact the world?

Answer 6

The failure of the league against Italy’s invasions and Japan’s invasion showed other powers that the LoN wouldn’t do anything if they were to violate rules.

Question 7

Appeasement and it’s consequences

Answer 7

Britain and France gave Germany what they wanted in hopes that they would stop and they would avoid war. also so that they would have enough time to re arm.
But Hitler stretched it too far and his true intentions were revealed.

Question 8

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Answer 8

-non aggression pact between SU and the Nazi
-secretly allowed Germany to invade Poland with no SU intervention
- Shift in international alliances and sealed the fate of Poland

Question 9

Invasion of Poland

Answer 9

Germany invaded poland on Sept 1 1939
- Brit and france declared war confusing hitler
invasion revealed the true goals of domination europe

Question 10

Why did war break out?

Answer 10

-Hitler’s miscalculations and aggressive expansions
-Hitler underestimated Brit and France’s willingness to resist
- British-French guarantees to Poland and Hitler’s thinking that the allies would not act let to the outbreak of war.