Section B

• • Anschluss
  • Unification with Austria
  • 99.75% voted in favour
  • Propaganda and voter intimidation
  • Also going against one of TOV's rules
  • Austria mainly German, wanted to make it ‘one nation’
  • They were weak and people agreed
  • Austrian Chancellor called a plebiscite after being rejected support by Br and Fr
• Sudeten Crisis - Sep 1938

  • German annex Sudetenland because of high population of Germans living there
  • Expansionism
• Munich Agreement - Sep 1938

  • Sudeten Crisis led to this
  • Agreement held by France and Britain for German
  • Appeasement from them saying they could annex this but no more)
  • Hitler signed this and annexed Czechoslovakia by March 1939
• Nazi Soviet Pact - Aug 23 1939

  • Pact made for
  • No military action for the next 10 years (non-aggression pact)
  • Secret agreement to split up Eastern Europe amongst themselves
  • Nazis:
  • Give soviets false sense of security
  • Launch surprise attacks unopposed
  • Soviets:
  • Avoid war 
• Invasion of Poland - Sep 1 1939

  • Trigger point for war
  • Nazi response to 'Polish Threat' (propaganda) - accused Ger of Poland persecuting ethnic Germans living there
  • Soviets attacked from East, Poland fell
  • War then declared by Sep 3
• Appeasement

  • Fails:
  • German rearmament - 1933-35
  • Munich Agreement - Sep 1938
  • All of these were fails and led to rise of German / Nazi power
  • Successes:
  • Temporary peace, could avoid immediate war and could somewhat prepare
• Remilitarisation of Rhineland

  • Mar 1936
  • Hitler ordered Ger troops to reoccupy Rhineland (more land = more power)
  • Claimed Ger was under threat, stationed his troops in Rhineland 
  • Impact - allowed him to position troops along the France border (took away France advantage)
  • Others refused to act without support, appeasement
• Saar Plebiscite

  • Vote to determine where Saar should belong to after being control by both Fr and LON
  • LON, Fr or Ger
  • 90% voted in favour of Ger (propaganda)
  • Saar promised financial support
  • This was expansionism 
• Leave LON

  • So he could build his army without constraints
  • Rearmament - 1933-35
  • Appeasement from other countries
  • G said they would comply with any rules
  • No one wants war
  • Increased to 300,000 men
• Hitlers 3 foreign policy objectives

  • Lebensraum - living space for aryan race
  • Destruction of communism
  • Destruction of TOV