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Question 1

hitler rearmament in1933

Answer 1

size of army now at 300000
1000 war planes
military buildings built

Question 2

what happened at geneva disarmament conference

Answer 2

(1933)said that france should disarm to their level or they would re arm back up
france denied
he left conference and withdrew from LoN and blamed it all on france

Question 3

hitler rearmament in 1934

Answer 3

continued re arming but no one prepared to fight them

Question 4

hitler rearmament in 1935

Answer 4

went public with militarisation(officially broke LoN)
had 2,500 war planes
300000 men
announced conscription so they could have 550,000 men

Question 5

what was anglo german naval agreement

Answer 5

-allowed german to have 1/3 of tonnage british navy had (1935)

Question 6

people who lived in saar

Answer 6

many anti nazis moved after 1933, they were proud germans but didn’t like hitler
communist + social democrats = united front (protection of league & wanted saar independence)
saarland nazi + catholics = ‘german front’ (helped by german gestapo to beat up anti nazis

Question 7

saar plebiscite events

Answer 7

-LoN too afraid to intervene
-17000 nazi saarlanders threatned to invade saar and impose nazi rule
-LoN imposed peace keeping army (1934)
-1935 plebiscite held & declared fair

Question 8

what was saar plebiscite vote

Answer 8

90.3% return saar to germany

Question 9

effects of saar plebiscite

Answer 9

showed germans living outside germany hated tov
gave boost to hitters prestige
showed league was too scared to intervene
baladier and chaimberlain failed too notice how nazi backed down when british foreign minister threatened to send soldiers

Question 10

why was rhineland demilitarised

Answer 10

to protect france from germany

Question 11

what was franco soviet mutual assistance pact

Answer 11

france + ussr pact to protect eachother if under attack by germany

Question 12

how did germany get to place troops on side of rhineland

Answer 12

they used franco soviet pact as a threat that they would be invaded and said they should place troops on frontier as defence. hitler knew GB would agree as they’re too scared to intervene anyway

Question 14

remilitarisation of rhineland

Answer 14

-germany moved into rhineland with orders to pull out if france wanted them to (didn’t want to risk war bc FR is stronger than then)
-league focused on Abyssinia but condemned hitler
-france wanted to hold election but generals weren’t prepared to be blamed for bringing france to war (didn’t know weak germany was)
-france refused to act wo british support so hitler won

Question 15

democracy in spain

Answer 15

one hand nationalists (whites)(capatlists)
republicans (reds)(communists)
fighting broke out in 1934

Question 16

feb 1936 elections

Answer 16

won by ‘popular front’ who were supported by reds, whites organised an uprising and asked for help from mussolini and hitler. they agreed despite signing non intervention agreement.
Reds seemed support from stalin and sent 40000 fighters

Question 17

how did whites win spanish civil war

Answer 17

-reached outskirts of madrid, guernica surrendered to them
1st april 1936, nationalists declared victory and leader led for 40 years

Question 18

how many died from spanish civil war

Answer 18

500000 killed let alone ones from starvation/ diseases

Question 19

why did austria sign german-austrian agreement and what was it

Answer 19

-schuschnigg tried to preserve austria by trying to not give germany an excuse to invade
-agreement recognised austrians independence but their foreign Policy had to align with hitlers
-austria had no one to help protect them due to rome berlin axis (italy now friends with germany)

Question 20

what was rome berlin axis

Answer 20

-hitler and mussolini ally ship formed during spanish civil war

Question 21

steps to aschluss

Answer 21

-hitler demanded they’re given key government posts & nazi was made minister of interior
-hitler ordered austrian nazis to cause chaos (give a reason to invade for law and order breakdown)
-schuschnigg announced referendum to see if they wanted to return to germany
-hitler asked to stop vote bc he thought he wouldn’t win (he stopped vote)
-german troops invaded austria
-hitler rigged a new referendum
-placed sa soldiers into beating austrians who didn’t vote for aschluss
-vote won 99.7%

Question 22

what was the vote for austria to return

Answer 22

99.7%

Question 23

what’s munich conference

Answer 23

when chaimberlain, mussolini daladier (french PM) and hitler came to talk about sudetenland and czechoslovakia

Question 24

why wasn’t ussr or czechoslovakia invited to munich conference

Answer 24

they would likely disapprove the agreement also there was a lack of trust

Question 25

how did sudetenland crisis start

Answer 25

henlein(german leader of sudetenland) complained that sudeten germans are being mistreated by czechs -hitler makes plan to destroy czech and makes a speech attacking czechs( he also needed an excuse to invade) -heinlein ordered independence for germans living in czechoslovakia but decided he wanted the land to return to germany

Question 26

how many ethnic germans lived in sudetenland

Answer 26

3 million

Question 27

what happened 13th sept 1938 in sudetenland

Answer 27

internal violence and disruption broke out

Question 28

what happened 15th sept 1938 in sudetenland

Answer 28

chaimberlain met with hitler and henlein to find a peaceful solution and agreed to give all areas in sudetenland where more than 50% of the people were german

Question 29

what happened 22-23 sept 1938

Answer 29

munich conference -hitler now demanded all of sudetenland return to germany originally, chaimberlain denied but they had a secret meeting where they agreed that hitler wouldn’t invade any more countries if they got to keep sudetenland. hitler agreed and wrote a note as proof saying so

Question 30

what’s appeasement

Answer 30

the policy chaimberlain followed in order to try and get peace

Question 31

why couldn’t britain protect poland against nazi and soviet threat

Answer 31

they were too far away and had a small army

Question 32

april 1939 nazi soviet

Answer 32

-stalin suggests an alliance between Ussr, Fr and Br to Defend against Germany -negotiations didn’t work bc chaimberlain didn’t like communism, poland wouldn’t allow russians to go into poland and stalin didn’t trust br + fr could resist germans

Question 33

what was nazi soviet pact in august 1935

Answer 33

-hitler made nazi soviet pact with stalin a promise to not go to war with eachother and secretly promise to invade poland and split it

Question 34

why was nazi soviet pact conviene for both ussr and Gr

Answer 34

stalin needed time to re arm for when hitler did invade ussr Stalin would either have to go to war with allies and fight Germany (br+fr) or could get more land (easy choice) hitler happy bc no war on two fronts

Question 35

when did hitler break nazi-soviet pact

Answer 35

1940 when he invaded ussr