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Nazi Foreign Policy - Timeline aims Flashcards

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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

What happened on October 14 1933

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  • Germany leaves the League of Nations and Disarmament Conference in Geneva.
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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

What was the League of Nations

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  • An international body established in 1920 to encourage disarmament and diplomacy and prevent war.
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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

What happened on January 26th 1934

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  • Germany and Poland signed a Non-Aggression Pact.
  • The Pact meant that Poland could not join the USSR in an attack on Germany
  • -Poland stood between Germany and the USSR and was, therefore, a useful ally-
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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

What happened in Autumn 1936

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  • Visit to Britain - Hitler sent Ribbentrop to London as Germany’s new ambassador with the specified objective of securing an agreement with Britain.
  • Hitler was committed to the idea of a British alliance as a way of securing his long-term aim of crushing the USSR.
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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

What happened on November 1st 1936

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  • Rome-Berlin Axis - following the Outbreak of Spanish Civil War
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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

What was the Rome-Berlin Axis

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  • Following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Italy announced the Rome-Berlin Axis,
  • which promised mutual support short of war and political, economic and ideological cooperation.
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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

What happened on November 25th 1936

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Anti-Comintern Pact

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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

What was the Anti-Comintern Pact

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  • Germany and Japan established the Anti-Comintern (anti-communist) Pact,
  • which outlined the amount of aid to give if an attack by the USSR seemed likely
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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

How was the Anti-Comintern Pact useful to Germany

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  • Relations between Japan and the USSR had broken down
  • following Japan’s defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese war
  • so it was useful for Germany to have an ally geographically on the east of the USSR
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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

What happened on May 22nd 1939

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Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steel

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Making Strategic Alliances with other countries

What was the Pact of Steel

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  • Germany and Italy were both committed both to close economic ties and promised mutual military aid/support in the event of war
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Breaking/ Overturning the ToV

What happened on July 25th 1933

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  • Failed Nazi putsch and political coup in Austria.
  • Mussolini responded by moving 40,000 Italian troops to the Austro-Italian frontier
  • (Austria was an important buffer state between Germany and Italy).
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What is a coup

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  • a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
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Breaking/ Overturning the ToV

What happened on March 16th 1935

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  • Rearmament:
  • Germany announced the existence of a Luftwaffe (the German air force)
  • introduced conscription
  • announced it was rearming inc a peacetime army of 550,000
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Breaking/ Overturning the ToV

What happened on June 18th 1935

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  • Britain and Germany signed the Naval Agreement
  • This ignored the ToV and allowed Germany to have a navy 35% of the strength of the British fleet
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Breaking/ Overturning the ToV

What began in 1936

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Hitler’s “Four Year Plan” focused on the creation of a war economy

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Breaking/ Overturning the ToV

What happened on March 7 1936

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Re-militarisation of the Rhineland

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What was the re-militarisation of the Rhineland

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  • German troops re-occupied the Rhineland, going against both the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Pact (1925).
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Breaking/ Overturning the ToV

What happened on March 11-13 1938

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  • The Anschluss
  • Following a rush and poorly executed invasion of Austria, the country was absorbed into Germany.
  • The Germans quickly extended anti-Jewish legislation to Austria.
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Breaking/ Overturning the ToV

What became evident in summer 1939

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  • Extent of German rearmament:
  • Hitler had 103 infantry divisions of 15,000 to 18,000 men
  • This included 3000 tanks
  • The navy was small put powerful
  • The air force had grown to around 2000 fighter and bomber planes and crew
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Creation of Lebensraum for German people

What happened on January 13th 1935

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  • Saar plebiscite - people voted to join Germany
  • The Saarland, for the previous 15 years, had been under the control of the League of Nation
  • This represented a great propaganda success for the Nazis
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Creation of Lebensraum for German people

What happened on 29-30th September 1938

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  • The Munich Agreement - a conference attended by Germany, Italy, Britain and France.
    Here, the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany.
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Creation of Lebensraum for German people

What happened on October 1st 1938

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The Czech crisis - Germany took the Sudetenland.
There were 3.5 million Sudeten Germans in the border region of Czechoslovakia.

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Creation of Lebensraum for German people

What happened in March 1939

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  • Invasion of Czechoslovakia - Germany invaded and occupied further regions of Czechoslovakia - Bohemia and Moravia.
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Creation of Lebensraum for German people

What happened on 1st Septemebr 1939

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  • Germany invaded Poland
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Creation of Lebensraum for German people

What happened on April 9th 1940

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  • Germany invaded Denmark & Norway
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Creation of Lebensraum for German people

What happened on April 10th 1940

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  • Germany invaded Belgium & the Netherlands
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What was the Hossback Conference, November 1937

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  • Hossbach Conference -
  • Hitler addressed the chiefs of armed services and Foreign Minister Neurath. He outlined three war scenarios.
  • The conference revealed how Hitler’s policy was changing from one centred on diplomacy to one where military force could play a greater part
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What was the Nazi-Soviet Pact

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  • Germany and the USSR signed a Non-Aggression Pact
  • They agreed:
  • to refrain from going to war with each other
  • to invade Poland
  • to divide eastern Europe between the spheres of influence of both powers
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What is a Sphere of influence

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  • a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments though it has no formal authority.
    Germany invaded Poland.

Ms Bray - History (23 decks)

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