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Hitlers Foreign Policys
Dictatorship and Democracy In Europe 1920-1945
Key Personalities

Hitler's Foreign Policy Aims
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GROSSDEUTSCHLAND: 'big Germany', unite all german speakers into 1 big country (Germany, Austria,
Poland, Czechoslovakia, France)
Remilitarise Rhineland
LEBENSRAUM: 'living space', more territory for
Germany (e.g. Poland, Russia, Czechoslovakia)

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Increase size of military, navy, air force etc...

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Reintroduce conscriptions

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Stop paying reparations

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Colonies/empire

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Germany powerful

Hitler's Foreign Policy:Early Phase
1933-1936
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League of Nations hold 'Disarmament Conference'

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France refuses to reduce armaments

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Germany leaves League of Nations (Oct 1933)

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Germany and Poland sign 10 year non-agression pact (Jan 1934)
This breaks the alliance between Poland and
France

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Austrian Nazis kill Chancellor Dolfuss

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Fear of Germany invading Austria

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Italy mobilises troops to Brenner Pass

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GB/France/Italy meet at Stresa

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Stresa Front condemn German agression/rearmament ●

Germany does not attempt to invade Austria

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Saarland under control of League of Nations

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Saarland returned to Germany after referendum
(Jan 1935)
Anglo-German Naval Pact (June 1935)
Germany allowed navy but must be 1/3 of GB navy Breaking the Versailles Treaty and
Foreign Policy 1936-1939
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Rearmament

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Remilitarising the Rhineland

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Rome-Berlin Axis 1936

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Support for Franco and Nationalists or Fascists in Spanish Civil War

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Anti-Comintern Pact (with Italy and Japan) 1938

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The Anschluss (Annexation of Austria) 1938

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Pact of Steel with Italy 1939

German rearmament
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Germany began rearmament and building up its armed forces in the
1930s
Again Britain and
France took no action against
Germany

German Rearmament
1933
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7 Divisions of troops ●
No military planes
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No large
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