Germany's foreign policy 1919-1940
Category: Other
Updated: 28 Feb 2018
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Created byAnna Ahlbäck
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Hitler becomes ChancellorGermany announces inability
to continue indemnities from WW1France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr
(until 1925)World Disarmament Conference
- Germany withdrew from the conference
when it became clear that France would noi
disarmAnnounces massive rearmament
- introduced conscription
- constructed 2500 aircrafts
- expanded navy
- mass produced weaponsGermany withdraws from
League of NationsLocarno treaties
- Recognize permanent western borders
- Continue demilitarization of Rhineland
- Adjust Eastern borders only through
diplomacyNon-aggression pact with Poland
- Germany didn't need to fear
Polish intervention
- Weakened FrsncrRapallo Treaty
- Signed by Germany and Soviet Union
- Each renounced all claims to the other
- Agreed to co-operate economically
- Established diplomatic relationsHitler meets with Mussolini
- tries to convince him that Austria should
become a German satellite stateHitler strongly supports attempted
Nazi coup in AustriaSaar plebiscite
- The Saar rejoins GermanyAnglo-German Naval Treaty
- limit German navy to 35% of British onecRe-militarization of the Rhineland
- Hitler claimed that the Franco-
Soviet pact was contrary to Locarno
treatiesRome-Berlin AxisAnti-Comintern Pact
- Japan and Germany
- Italy joined in 1937AnschlussSudeten Crisis
- German Party in Czechoslovakia demand
self-government
- Czech army mobilized to prevent annexation
by Germany
- Hitler announces that Sudetenland will be occu
pied unless it was ceded to GermanyMunich Agreement
- Germany was to receive the Sudeten
- German troops were to occupy the SudetenCzechoslovakia becomes allied with Germany
- Essentially run by Germany
- Forced to as war would have broken out
otherwiseConcordate with Vatican
- freedom of religion for CatholicsInvasion of PolandTripartite pactDenmark and Norway invadedCampaign of France
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