Hitler's Foreign Policy

Question 1

What was Hitler’s first foreign policy aim? (R)

Answer 1

Reverse the Treaty of Versailles - He never accepted the term’s and promised to restore land

Question 2

What was Hitler’s second foreign policy aim? (U)

Answer 2

Unite all German speaking people

Question 3

What was Hitler’s third foreign policy aim? (L)

Answer 3

Lebensraum - Saw Lebensraum in the East , Poland and Russia for their raw materials and resources

Question 4

What was Hitler’s fourth foreign policy aim? (A)

Answer 4

Anschluss

Question 5

What was Hitler’s fifth foreign policy aim? (C)

Answer 5

Destroy Communism - Hated the USSR, convinced that Stalin and Russian Jews were plotting a Jewish-Bolshevik takeover

Question 6

What events happened in the Disarmament Conference 1932-34

Answer 6

-Germany wanted each nation to reduce their army to match the German army

Question 7

What did Hitler do after withdrawing from the Conference

Answer 7

He withdrew and announced he would increase the German Peacetime army to 300,000 and airforce to 1000

Question 8

When did Hitler leave the league of Nations

Answer 8

1933

Question 9

What was the non-aggression pact with Poland in 1934

Answer 9

Promised to accept Polish borders and encourage trading
Set to last for 10 years

Question 10

What key foreign policy did he attempt to achieve in 1934

Answer 10

• Anschluss

Question 11

Why did the Anschluss in 1934 fail

Answer 11

Dollfuss, the Austrian Chancellor outlawed the Nazi’s
He was then assasinated by rogue Nazi’s
Failed due to lack of support from Hitler who was concerned about Mussolini - guardian of Austria

Question 12

What was the Return of the Saarland 1935

Answer 12

Plebiscite voted 477,000 to 48,000 to rejoin Germany
LoN administered this vote legal

Question 13

What extremely vital military move did Hitler do in 1935

Answer 13

Rearmament and Conscription

Question 14

Why was Hitler allowed to rearm and conscript

Answer 14

The French and Soviet Unions were building up their armies and he argued he felt vulnerable and it was self defence

Question 15

What was the Stresa Front 1935

Answer 15

Agreement between Britain, France and Italy to oppose Hitler’s rearmament

Question 16

Why did the Stressa Front 1935 collapse?

Answer 16

• The Anglo-German Naval Agreement (Allowed Germany to increase it’s fleet to 35% size of Britain’s)
• Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia (Strengthened Hit/Musso bond)

Question 17

Why did the Allies leave the Rhineland

Answer 17

The ToV stated they were to occupy it for 15 years and left in 1935

Question 18

What did Hitler do the following year after Allies left the Rhineland?

Answer 18

Reoccupied the Rhineland

Question 19

What order’s did he give the generals reoccupying the Rhineland

Answer 19

He told his generals to not engage in combat and if met with hostility to retreat immediately

Question 20

Why did they face initially no resistance in the Rhineland?

Answer 20

Britain and France were occupied with the Abyssinia crisis

Question 21

How many were in favour to reoccupy the Rhineland?

Answer 21

98.8%

Question 22

What was the Rome - Berlin Axis 1936

Answer 22

Italy and Germany agreed to work together on mutual interests
Agreed to stop the spread of communism

Question 23

What was the Anti-Comintern Pact 1936

Answer 23

A treaty with Japan to limit spread of communism and influence of the soviet union
Furthered relations between Germany Italy and Japan

Question 24

By 1938, what did Hitler encourage the Nazi’s to do in Austria

Answer 24

• Stir up trouble
• Bomb public buildings and stage marches

Question 25

What did Hitler force the Australian Chancellor to do?

Answer 25

Accept 2 Nazi's onto his cabinet and later forced to resign

Question 26

Who was the Australian Chancellor replaced by?

Answer 26

Seyss-Inquart

Question 27

What did Seyss-Inquart ask Hitler to do?

Answer 27

- Asked German troop's to march in and restore order 13th March - Anschluss proclaimed and 99.75% voted in favour

Question 28

What was the ally and LoN response to the Anschluss

Answer 28

Protest but took no action - following policy of appeasement

Question 29

What was the Sudetenland Crisis

Answer 29

- 3 million Germans within the Sudetenland - Ordered Czech Nazi's to stir up trouble and threatened force to solve the crisis - Scared USSR would invade Germany through Czechoslovakia

Question 30

What was the Munich Conference

Answer 30

-Germany, France, GB and Italy agreed to transfer the Sudetenland to Germany - GB and Germany agreed to settle disputes peacefully

Question 31

Why was there a gradual move away from Appeasement

Answer 31

- German continuation of territorial expansion - Breaking the Munich Agreement

Question 32

What was the Pact of Steel May 1939

Answer 32

Hitler and Mussolini full military alliance and economic cooperation

Question 33

What did Hitler need to do before he aimed to invade and destroy Poland?

Answer 33

Needed the neutrality of the Soviet Union, feared Stalin would make an alliance with Britain

Question 34

What did the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact agree on? (Nazi-Soviet Pact)

Answer 34

- Agreed to not support any third country if it attacked the other - Agreed to consult each other and not join an alliance aimed at each other - Secretly agreed to invade and partition Poland

Question 35

What final foreign event causes the start of WW2

Answer 35

1st September 1939 - German troops invaded Poland

Question 36

What was the French and British response?

Answer 36

They agreed to honour their obligations to Poland and demanded Hitler to withdraw

Question 37

What was Hitler's response

Answer 37

Hitler did not reply - Britain and France declared war on Germany - Within 2 days German Blitzkrieg broke through Polish defences.