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Germany’s Foreign Policy

Germany’s Foreign Policy. The Aims of the Policy. To reunite German speaking peoples. To create Lebensraum. To create a greater Germany. To reverse the Treaty of Versailles. Event of the 1930’s.

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Germany’s Foreign Policy

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  1. Germany’s Foreign Policy

  2. The Aims of the Policy • To reunite German speaking peoples. • To create Lebensraum. • To create a greater Germany. • To reverse the Treaty of Versailles.

  3. Event of the 1930’s • 1933: Hitler makes Germany leave the League of Nations.The French refused to disarm at the League bof Nations Disarmament Conference and this gave Hitler the excuse and withdrew from the League of Nations. • 1934: Hitler attempts to take control of Austria. Dolfuss murdered by Austrian Nazis. Italy moves armies to border and Germany back down.

  4. 1935: People of Saarland vote to return to Germany after 15 years under League control, as organised in the Treaty of Versailles.This was a tremendous propaganda success for Hitler. • 1935: Hitler begins rearmament, increasing the German army to 500,000 soldiers (conscription).

  5. 1935: Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Naval Treaty, which enables Germany to have a navy one third of the size of Britain's.A clear rejection of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. • 1936: German troops reoccupy the Rhineland. France do nothing even though Hitler expected to be forced back. • The Rome Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pacts.A • Closer relationship with Italy and Japan was being forged.Rome-Berlin axis was an informal agreement.The Anti Comintern Pact committed Germany and Japan to hostility towards the Soviet Union and Italy joined the pact in1937.

  6. 1936: Hitler tests his armed forces when he aids the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Britain and France are scared and do nothing. • 1937: Germany, Italy and Japan sign the anti-comintern pact, an agreement against communism.

  7. 1938: Hitler occupies Austria, reversing the Treaty of Versailles by creating Anschluss. • 1938: Hitler bullies Britain and France into giving him the Sudetenland. • 1939: Hitler invades Czechoslovakia, Britain and France continue their policy of appeasement.

  8. 1939: Hitler invades Poland. Britain and France declare war upon Germany, and the second world war begins.

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