Download Nazi Foreign Policy - The British Empire

Diverting
Germans’
Attention from
Domestic
Problems:
Foreign Policy
Hitler’s Foreign Policy Aims
• Re-arm Germany
– So that Germany can defend itself
• Tear up the Treaty of Versailles
– Restore Germany to its old borders
• Create a Greater Germany!
– Fit for the Master Race
Revising the Treaty of Versailles?
What areas did Hitler want to return to Germany?
Timeline of building a Greater
Germany
• 1935
– Saar Plebiscite
• Great success for Hitler as 90% of Saar voluntarily
elect to rejoin booming Germany
• 1936
– Remilitarisation of Rhineland
• German Army is ordered back into the Rhineland
(against the Treaty of Versailles)
• They are ordered to withdraw if Allies oppose them
• What was the effect on Hitler’s Popularity in
Germany after these 2 events?
Timeline of building a Greater
Germany
• 1936
– Spanish Civil War
• Germany helps Franco win power in Spain. He uses
the war as an excuse to test Blitzkrieg out.
• 1938
– Austrian Anschluss
• Hitler creates an excuse to invade Austria. Most
Austrians are delighted to be reunited with a Greater,
booming Germany.
• What was the effect on Hitler’s Popularity in
Germany after these 2 events?
Timeline of
building a
Greater Germany
• 1938
– Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
• Hitler uses Sudeten Germans as an excuse to take
the border regions of Czechoslovakia. He promises to
Britain and France that this is his final demand.
• 1938
– Invades Czechoslovakia
• He takes the rest of undefendable and very wealthy
Czechoslovakia. They are NOT German
• What was the effect on Hitler’s Popularity in
Germany after these 2 events?
Timeline of building a
Greater Germany
• 1939
– Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Hitler and Stalin stun the world by agreeing an alliance
with each other.
• 1939
– Invasion of Poland
• Hitler confidently expects that Britain and France can
do little especially after the deal with the USSR. He is
surprised that World War 2 breaks out.
• What was the effect on Hitler’s Popularity in
Germany after these 2 events???
World War 2
• 1940
– Fall of France,
Denmark, Holland,
Belgium and mighty
Luxembourg
– Battle of Britain
• 1941
– Fall of Yugoslavia,
Greece and Albania
– Advances in Desert
– Invasion of Russia
• To outskirts of Moscow
• What was the effect on
Hitler’s Popularity in
Germany after these
events???
• 1942
The Tide Turns
– Stalingrad
– El Alamein
– American Forces start to arrive
• 1943
– Sustained bombings of German cities
– Italy knocked out of war
• 1944
– D-Day
– Russians enter Poland
– German Army tries to assassinate Hitler at the Wolf’s Lair
• 1945
– Fall of Berlin
– Germans are forced to see the Concentration Camps by Allies
• What was the effect on Hitler’s Popularity in Germany
after these events?
Questions
• Explain why opponents of Hitler had a hard time in the
1930s convincing Germans that Hitler was a loser.
• How come there does not seem to be a lot of criticism of
Hitler and the Nazis when things start to go wrong in
1942?
• What was Total War? Why didn’t Hitler force Total war
onto the Germans.
• Why did some German officers try to assassinate Hitler
in 1944?
• How do you think a regular German soldier would feel
about serving in the Wehrmacht between 1935 and
1941.
– Write a yearly diary explaining your feelings building a Greater
Germany and then a new German Empire (Third Reich)
Opposition Groups
Group
Youth
Groups
The
Wehrmacht
The Left
The Churches
Jews
Grievances
Opposition group
names
Evidence or
examples of AntiNazi Resistance
Punishments
received
Germany Overview
• 1918 – 1933 (A)
– How did the Weimar
Republic Fail
– How did the Nazis take
advantage
• 1919 – 1923 – The Putsch
• 1929 – 1933 – The Legal
Assault
• 1933 – 1945 (B)
– How did the Nazis stay in
power
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Night of the long knives
Propaganda
Education
Persecution
• Groups (C)
– How did they live with
the Nazis
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Political Opponents
Trade Unionists
Women
The Armed Forces
Youth Groups
Jews
• Grade F
– Simplistic answer that
identifies one key
point
• Grade C
– Shows a variety of
valid factors in a
logical order
• Grade A
– Shows complicated
interrelationship of a
multitude of factors
• Make sure you read the instructions!!!
– You only get marks for the answering the correct questions
• Choose your questions wisely
– Read all parts of the question – not just that you can answer part
a worth 5 marks but have no clue for parts b and c? worth 15
• Give yourself appropriate time for each question
– If a question is worth 8 marks your answer should be longer than
one worth 5 marks!
– You should have NO free time left at the end. If you have any
spare time left then you have not used your time properly!
– Leave some space at the end of each question so that you can
come back to it later
• Make sure you answer the question asked
– Do not waste time writing an answer that will not get you any
marks
• Make sure you have revised fully
– You can not bluff your way through.
– Make sure you understand your own notes!