Test Answers

Study the extract and then answer the questions which follow.

If one dictator cannot be stopped from attacking Abyssinia, nothing can stop another dictator from attacking Lithuania, Memel and Austria. If the League of Nations fails to prevent war, security will end, not only for the small nations, but for France and Czechoslovakia as well.
A British MP speaking in Parliament, 1 August 1935.

1. What were the aims of Hitler’s foreign policy? [5]
2. Why did Britain and France permit the take-over of Rhineland by Hitler? [7]
3.Why did Hitler want to unite Germany and Austria? [8]

The main points to be expanded on for these questions are the following :

1. One main point-make Germany a great power. To do this it was required to:
*Destroy agreements reached at Versailles-regain territory(give examples)
*Create a greater Germany(give examples)
(b)Lebensraum
*Destroy Jews
*Fight Communism

2.*Br felt Germany unfairly treated acc. to Treaty of Versailles.
*attention of League on Abyssinian crisis
*France on the brink of holding elections
*France and Britain weakened by the economic depression
* France refused to attack or pressurise germany without British support.
*France thought German Military strong
*Britain more concerned about her own colonies
*Communism a greater threat
*Hitler never said he was fighting for more land-he only wanted peace.

3.
*Hitler's homeland.
*Greater Germany as mentioned in Mein Kamf
*had support of Austrian Nazis
*Au had more natural resources
*Br & Fr showed weakness when Abyssinia taken over in 1915
*League weak
*Anti comintern pact and axis support in Spanish Civil War added to Hitler's confidence
*Hitler did not feel Br & Fr would have the courage to fight a war