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Flashcards by Drew Bott, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| When did Hitler become chancellor ? | 1933 January (Appointed by President Hindenburg) |
| What were some of Hitler's main aims ? | -Reverse the Treaty of Versailles -Unite all German-speaking people (Gross Deutschland) -Lebensraum -Destroy communism |
| What was the policy of appeasement ? | When Chamberlain decided to negotiate with Hitler in an attempt to solve disputes. Chamberlain thought many of the things Hitler asked for were reasonable and so by agreeing to reasonable claims Hitler would be satisfied and conflict averted |
| When was conscription re-introduced into Germany ? | 1935 - Hitler justified it by arguing that other countries were increasing their arms and that Germany needed to be strong enough to defend itself .France had also signed a pact of Mutual Assistance with the USSR. |
| When did Britain and Germany sign a naval agreement? (example of appeasement) | 1935 - which permitted Germany to build a fleet as long as it was no larger than 35% of the size of the British fleet |
| When was the disarmament conference and what happened ? | 1932 -33 :representatives of 60 nations met to discuss ways that their countries may disarm to reduce that chance of war - including Germany |
| What was the outcome of the Disarmament conference ? | Failure - too many differences between France and Germany - Germany said that all countries should only have as many arms as them and France was concerned about German power so refused to co-operate - Hitler withdrew from the conference |
| What was the peacetime army increased to in 1936 ? | 500,000 men |
| What % of German spending was on military compare to Britain ? | German- 18% Great Britain - less than 10% |
| What happened in 1934 in Austria ? | Austrian Nazi Party activists murdered Engelbert Dolfuss the chancellor of Austria and then tried to take over but were prevented by the opposition of Mussolini (Italy) |
| What did Mussolini do to prevent Germany invading Austria ? | Sent 100,00 troops to the Austrian frontier - the Brenner Pass |
| What did Hitler want with Austria ? | Unite all German speaking people known as the Anschluss - as part of his policy of Gross Deutschland (Hitler was Austrian by birth) |
| On what date did Hitler enter Austria triumphant ? | 12th March 1938 |
| What happened to the Saar? | It was a rich coal mining area - a plebiscite (vote) was held, by the League of Nations in 1935 and over 90% voted for to return to Germany - a huge propaganda success for Hitler. |
| The Rhineland was made a de-militarised zone so how did Hitler pose to overturn this ? | 7th March 1936 Hitler ordered 22,000 troops to march into the Rhineland even though he feared that Britain and France would try and stop him - it was a gamble that paid off. |
| When was the Rome-Berlin axis signed and who was it between ? | October 1936 Germany-Italy |
| Why did Hitler want Czechoslovakia? | To achieve Grossdeutschland as Czechoslovakia contained 3 million German speaking people. Strategic reasons Czechoslovakia was a stepping stone to the East (Lebensraum) |
| How did Hitler begin his move against Czechoslovakia ? | From April 1938 Hitler ordered a Czech Nazi, Conrad Henlein, to stir up trouble - because of the 'Crisis' Hitler said that he would support the Sudeten Germans with military force if a solution could not be found. The situation worsened in the summer of 1938 leading to Chamberlain’s 3 visits. |
| What 3 meetings were held to try and come to a solution for the Sudetenland Crisis ? | 1-Berchtesgaden: 15th September 1 Hitler demanded the Sudetenland - Chamberlain offered to discuss the transfer where the majority of German speaking people lived 2-Godesberg: 22nd September 1938 Hitler increased his demands and said that he should also be given Poland and Hungary and demanded that they be given to him by 1st October or war these demands were rejected 3-Munich: 29th September 1938 It was finally greed that Sudetenland was to be occupied by German troops by 10th October |
| The day after the Munich conference what did Chamberlain meet with Hitler to do? | Signed the Anglo-German Declaration whereby the two countries promised never to go to war with one another again. ‘Peace in our Time’. |
| Three examples how the Munich Agreement weakened the state of Czechoslovakia | -Lost it's strong defence system -Lost key industrial areas -Lost territory in Poland in October 1938 and Hungary in November 1938 -Stirred other nationalities in Czechoslovakia to return to their own nation states |
| When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed ? | 23rd August 1939 where they agreed not to attack each other and agreed to attack Poland and divide it between them |
| Why was the Nazi-Soviet pact signed ? | -Joseph Stalin grew impatient with Britain who were hesitating to sign an agreement with him -Stalin suspected that Britain and France were trying to direct Hitler's attention way from the west -By making a pact with Hitler Stalin gained half of Poland and time to rearm |
| Why did Hitler think that Britain and France would not defend Poland ? | As they failed to defend Czechoslovakia |
| When was Poland attacked ? | 1st September 1939 |
| When did Britain declare war on Germany ? | 3rd September 1939 |
| When did the USSR invade Poland ? | 17th September 1939 |
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