Foreign policy

• What foreign policy was good for Germany

  • Reparations reorganised
  • Berlin treaty (secret rearmament)
  • Locarno - international reputation improved & opened renegotiation of east
  • Access to the league of nations 
  • Allied occupation removed 
  • Kellogg briand pact - improved reputation
• What foreign policy was bad for Germany

  • Locarno - French & Polish aware of eastern boarder
  • Treaty of Berlin - connected to communism
  • Confirmed Germany's second tier status 
  • Policy of fulfilment seen as cowardly (giving in to allies)
  • Negotiation of ToV adding to the stab in the back myth (freedom law)
  • Criticised by the right
  • Dawes connected Germany to the USA
• What foreign policy was good for Europe

  • Locarno, confirmed acceptance of ToV territory negotiation (nobel peace prize)
  • Joined the league of nations 
  • Kellogg briand pact - outlawed war
• What did Locarno do

  Respect the western border agreed at versailles 

  • Restored German reputation & to avoid france/british alliance 
  • Right hated association with allies (league of nations)
• When was Locarno

  1925
• What did the treaty of berlin do

  • Resumed trade with USSR & Brest-litovsk dropped
  • German rearmament in Russia 
  • German neutrality if USSR went to war 
  • Able to negotiate borders
• When was the Treaty of Berlin

  1926
• What was the League of Nations

  Proposed by Wilson - Britain ambivalent to it

  Promote security and aid humanitarian issues (no real power to stop them)
• When did Germany join the League of Nations

  1926
• What did the kellogg-briand pact do

  Stated conflicts were to be resolved democratically (outlawed war)
• When was the Kellogg-briand pact

  1928
• How was German rearmament achieved


  • New fortifications at polish border
  • Trained soldiers in groups to have a reserve army 
  • Secret rearmament driven by military commanders (Von Seeckt) approved by politicians