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Hitler's Foreign Policy &
The Origins of the Second
World War
- Hitler's Aims in Foreign Policy
- Destroy ToV, by rearming Germany
& recovering lands lost in the Treaty
- Hitler called the German leaders who signed it the
'November Criminals'. Treaty was constant reminder of
their defeat in WW1 & their humiliation by the Allies.
Hitler said if he became leader, he would reverse it
- Hitler called the German leaders who signed it the
'November Criminals'. Treaty was constant reminder of
their defeat in WW1 & their humiliation by the Allies.
Hitler said if he became leader, he would reverse it
- Bring all German speaking people everywhere
under German control. Reuniting with Austria
- ToV taken away territory from Germany. Hitler
wanted to get it back. Wanted Germany to unite
with Austria. Wanted German minorities in other
countries (Czechoslovakia) to re-join with Germany
- ToV taken away territory from Germany. Hitler
wanted to get it back. Wanted Germany to unite
with Austria. Wanted German minorities in other
countries (Czechoslovakia) to re-join with Germany
- Expand East to gain Lebensraum (living space)
for German people. This means Poland & USSR
- Hitler said they were in need of more land if they were
going to do well. He admired Britain's empire, believed
Germany needed an empire too in Eastern Europe.
Germany would need to rule all of Eastern Europe &
take huge bits of the USSR
- Hitler said they were in need of more land if they were
going to do well. He admired Britain's empire, believed
Germany needed an empire too in Eastern Europe.
Germany would need to rule all of Eastern Europe &
take huge bits of the USSR
- Destroy communist USSR
- Hitler was anti-communist. Believed they helped bring out
defeat of Germany in WW1. Also believed they wanted to take
over Germany. Thought it was poison to make Germany weak.
Greatest ambition was to destroy communist USSR. Dream
was a war that would: Unite German people behind Hitler,
make Germany a leading world power & destroy threat of
communism
- Hitler was anti-communist. Believed they helped bring out
defeat of Germany in WW1. Also believed they wanted to take
over Germany. Thought it was poison to make Germany weak.
Greatest ambition was to destroy communist USSR. Dream
was a war that would: Unite German people behind Hitler,
make Germany a leading world power & destroy threat of
communism
- Destroy ToV, by rearming Germany
& recovering lands lost in the Treaty
- The Return of the Saar,1935
- After 15 years of control by the LoN, the
time came for a plebiscite
- Nazi campaigned for it to reunite with Germany & beat
up opposition from socialists and communists
- Nazi army gathered on the border, but disbanded
when France & Britain threatened to send an army
- Plebiscite held January 1935, 90% Saarlanders voted
in favour of reuniting with Germany
- After 15 years of control by the LoN, the
time came for a plebiscite
- The Beginning of Rearmament in
Germany
- Withdrawal from the Disarmament
Conference 1933
- First met Feb 1932. Didn't know what to do with
Germany as been in League for 6 years. Didn't know if
everyone else should disarm to the level that Germany
had been forced to, or the Germans should be allowed
to rearm to the level of the other people
- Germans walked out of the conference in July 1932 when
the other powers failed to disarm down to the level of
Germany. May 1933 Hitler returned to the conference &
promised not to rearm if "In 5 years all other nations
destroyed their arms". They refused, so Hitler withdrew from
the conference in October 1933 & then the LoN too
- First met Feb 1932. Didn't know what to do with
Germany as been in League for 6 years. Didn't know if
everyone else should disarm to the level that Germany
had been forced to, or the Germans should be allowed
to rearm to the level of the other people
- Non-Aggression Pact with Poland 1934
- January 1934 Germany signed a
non-aggression agreement with Poland
- Hitler hoped to weaken the existing
alliance between France & Poland
- He hoped to reduce Polish fears of
German aggression
- Wanted to show he had no quarrel with
Poland, only with the USSR
- January 1934 Germany signed a
non-aggression agreement with Poland
- Reintroduction to Conscription 1935
- 1935, Hitler re-introduced conscription & announced
a peacetime army of 550,000. A new Air Ministry
was to train pilots & build 1,000 aircrafts. He was
breaking the rules of the ToV, but got away with it
- France, Italy & Britain met in Stresa where
they agreed to work together to preserve the
peace in Europe. Condemned German
rearmament. Became known as the Stresa
Front against German aggression, but didn't
last long (due to Abyssinian Crisis)
- 1935, Hitler re-introduced conscription & announced
a peacetime army of 550,000. A new Air Ministry
was to train pilots & build 1,000 aircrafts. He was
breaking the rules of the ToV, but got away with it
- Anglo-German Naval Agreement (Treaty), 1935
- 1935, Britain signed a naval agreement with Germany
that allowed the Germans to build up their navy up to
35% of the size of the British navy & have the same
number of submarines
- 1935, Britain signed a naval agreement with Germany
that allowed the Germans to build up their navy up to
35% of the size of the British navy & have the same
number of submarines
- Withdrawal from the Disarmament
Conference 1933
- The Remilitarisation of the Rhineland 1939
- Under the ToV, the Rhineland was a
de-militarised zone. Germans were allowed to
keep troops or weapons in the Rhineland
- Hitler challenged this by ordering 32,000
troops & armed police to march into the
Rhineland. Feared Britain & France would
try to stop him - they didn't
- This encouraged Hitler to continue
pursuing his policies
- British government believed the
ToV had been unfair. British
thought that by allowing Hitler to
right the wrongs of Versailles,
future peace with Germany
would be secured
- Hitler offered to make a treaty that
would last for 25 years
- Under the ToV, the Rhineland was a
de-militarised zone. Germans were allowed to
keep troops or weapons in the Rhineland
- The Anschluss with Austria 1938
- Hitler bullied the Austrian Chancellor,
Schuschnugg, into excepting a Nazi,
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, as Austrian
Minister of the Interior
- Schuschnigg ordered a plebiscite to find
out if the Austrian people really wanted
union with Germany
- Hitler feared a 'no' vote, so he moved
German troops to the Austrian border &
threatened to invade if Schuschnigg did not
resign in favour of Seyss-Inquart
- Seyss-Inquart became Chancellor of Austria &
invited German troops into the country. March
12th 1938, German army entered Vienna.
Anschluss was complete
- Nazis organised their own vote about
union with Germany and of those who
voted, 99% voted in favour. Austria
immediately became a province of the
new German Reich
- Hitler bullied the Austrian Chancellor,
Schuschnugg, into excepting a Nazi,
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, as Austrian
Minister of the Interior
- Reasons For and Against Appeasment
- FOR
- Hitler was a man who could be
relied upon when he had given
his word - trustworthy
- There were German speaking people
in several countries, so seemed fair to
let them join Germany. If Germany
couldn't defend itself, then
rearmament was fair. If Hitler could be
reasoned with them, then there was
little to fear for Britain
- Hitler always said that he wanted all
German-speaking people with Germany. He
needed land in the east to feed his people
- Hitler was a man who could be
relied upon when he had given
his word - trustworthy
- AGAINST
- Czechoslovakia will be
swallowed up by the Nazis
- People had to get along with people
like Hitler. Try to remove any grievance
that Germany had
- Trust
- Beginning of more actions
- Czechoslovakia will be
swallowed up by the Nazis
- FOR
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