Foreign policy under Hitler

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Kerby B

Cards (2)

  • Evidence Hitler wanted peace
    • 1934 - Germany signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland that was supposed to last 10 years. Gave the impression he was a man of peace, not war
    • 1935 - Germany signed the Anglo-German Naval Agreement. Limited Germany’s navy to 35% of the size of the British navy
    • 1935 - an area of Germany called the Saar voted to return to German control.
  • Actions suggesting Hitler was preparing for war
    • 1933 - Germany withdrew from a disarmament conference and left the League of Nations. He did not want to be bound by the rules and regulations of being a member country
    • 1935 - Hitler started a re-armament programme. Army increased to 550,000 by the introduction of conscription. Number of military aircraft increased to 2,500
    • 7 March 1936 - remilitarised the Rhineland. Britain and France condemned the remilitarisation as it broke the Treaty of Versailles, but neither took action to reverse it, nor saw it as an act of war