Topic 7 Hitlers Foreign Policy

Question 1

What were the 4 main aims of Hitlers foreign policy?

Answer 1

• reverse Treaty of Versailles
• destroy communism
• unite all German speaking people
• lebensraum (living space)

Question 2

When did Hitler reintroduce conscription?

Answer 2

March 1935

Question 3

When did Hitler remilitarise the Rhineland?

Answer 3

March 1936

Question 4

Why did Britain and France not do anything to stop Hitler remilitarising the Rhineland?

Answer 4

Preoccupied with crisis between Italy (Mussolini) and Abyssinia

Question 5

When did Hitler form an Anschluss with Austria?

Answer 5

March 1938

Question 6

When was the Sudetenland crisis?

Answer 6

September 1938

Question 7

What was the Sudetenland crisis?

Answer 7

Hitler demanded that the German speaking part of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland)be given to Germany

Question 8

What was the result of the Munich Conference?

Answer 8

Agreed to the transfer of the Sudetenland to Germany

Question 9

When did Germany take over the rest of Czechoslovakia?

Answer 9

March 1939

Question 10

When did Hitler sign the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact?

Answer 10

August 1939

Question 11

What did the Nazi-Soviet Pact include?

Answer 11

secret agreement to divide Poland between Germany and USSR

Question 12

When did Germany invade Poland?

Answer 12

1 September 1939

Question 13

When did Britain and France declare war on Germany?

Answer 13

3 September 1939

Question 14

What were 2 circumstances that made it easier for Hitler to break the Treaty of Versailles after he became Chancellor?

Answer 14

• recent world economic depression, countries focused on internal problems
• British people and politicians felt Germany had been harshly dealt with by Treaty of Versailles

Question 15

When did Hitler withdraw Germanys membership of the League of Nations?

Answer 15

October 1933

Question 16

When was the Disarmament Conference?

Answer 16

1932

Question 17

What was the purpose of the Disarmament Conference 1932?

Answer 17

Countries met to discuss ways to disarm to prevent war in future

Question 18

Why did the Disarmament Conference fail?

Answer 18

France and Germany argued about all countries disarming equally, Hitler withdrew from conference

Question 19

What didHitler give as his reason for rearming Germany after the Disarmament Conference?

Answer 19

Make Germany equal with other countries, for self defence against growing armies of France and Soviet Union

Question 20

When was the Stresa Front?

Answer 20

April 1935

Question 21

What was the Stresa Front 1935?

Answer 21

To restrict German rearmament, France, Italy and Britain met at Stresa (town in Italy)

Question 22

Why was the unity formed between France, Italy and Britain destroyed after the Stresa Front?

Answer 22

Anglo-French reactions to Italian invasion of Abyssinia in October 1935

Question 23

When was the Saarland returned to Germany?

Answer 23

January 1935

Question 24

What percentage of Germans voted in favour of the re-occupation of the Rhineland in a referendum?

Answer 24

98.8%

Question 25

Why did **Britain, France and the League not take action** to **stop the Anschluss**?

Answer 25

**Didn’t have armed forces to stop Nazis, didn’t want world war**

Question 26

Why did **Hitler not support the first attempted Anschluss with Austria** by the **Austrian Nazi Party**?

Answer 26

**Feared retaliation from Mussolini**

Question 27

Which **country** was the **Sudetenland part of**?

Answer 27

**Czechoslovakia**

Question 28

How **many German speaking people** did the **Sudetenland contain**?

Answer 28

**3 million**

Question 29

**As a result of what** did **Hitler promise to support Germans in the Sudetenland** with **military force**?

Answer 29

**Hitler** had ordered **Sudeten nazi party** to **stir up trouble** **German newspapers** published reports of **atrocities** against **Sudeten Germans** by **Czech officials**

Question 30

What was **agreed** at the **Munich Conference** in **September 1938**?

Answer 30

**Sudetenland transferred to Germany**

Question 31

Why was the **Munich conference organised** and **Anglo-German Declaration agreed**?

Answer 31

**Europe on brink of war**

Question 32

What was **agreed** in the **Anglo-German Declaration**?

Answer 32

**Chamberlain** and **Hitler promised never to go to war, settle all disputes by talks**

Question 33

**After the Sudetenland Crisis** what was **Hitler convinced of**?

Answer 33

**No one would stop him taking over Czechoslovakia and Poland**

Question 34

When was the **Non-aggression pact** with **Poland**?

Answer 34

**1934**

Question 35

What did **Hitler promise** in the **Non-aggression pact with Poland 1934**?

Answer 35

**Accept borders of Poland** and **encouraged trade- Hitler no longer feared attack from Poland**

Question 36

What were **2 ways Hitler improved relations** between **Germany, Japan and Italy**?

Answer 36

**Anti-Comintern Pact 1936** **Rome-Berlin Axis 1936**

Question 37

What was **agreed** in the **Rome-Berlin Axis 1936**?

Answer 37

**Italy** and **Germany** follow **common foreign policy** and **stop spread of communism in Europe**

Question 38

What was the **aim** of the **Anti-Comintern Pact** between **Italy, Germany and Japan**?

Answer 38

**Limit communist influence around world**

Question 39

When was the **Pact of Steel** formed?

Answer 39

**1939**

Question 40

What was **agreed** in the **Pact of Steel** between **Hitler** and **Mussolini**?

Answer 40

**Full military alliance** **Assist each other in event if war** and **plan operations together**