1. Adolf Hitler’s
Foreign Policy

2. Main Aims
Destroy the treaty of Versailles:
(1) Remove “war guilt” clause
(2) Recover land taken from Germany
(3) Build up German army
and airforce

3. Main Aims
Lebensraum:
Germany should expand to the east to create “Living Space” for Germans
Anschluss:
Hitler wanted a union with Austria
Unite all German speaking peoples in one Reich

4. Steps to World War 2
(1) Introduced conscription to raise the army to 500,000
(2) Hitler formed an air force the “Luftwaffe”
(3) Sent his army into the Rhineland

5. (4) In 1936 Hitler and Mussolini signed the Rome-Berlin Axis
(5) “Condor Legion” sent to help General Franco in Spanish Civil War
(6) In 1938 Germany completed the “Anschluss” with Austria

6. Hitler invades the Sudetenland
Britain and France follow a policy of “Appeasement”
After the “Munich Conference” Neville Chamberlain believed he had secured “Peace in our time”

7. Hitler signed a “Pact of Steel” with Mussolini in 1939
Hitler and Stalin signed the “Nazi-Soviet Pact”.
They agreed not to attack each other and
They agreed to divide Poland between them

8. Outbreak of World War 2
Hitler invaded Poland on the 1st of September 1939
Blitzkrieg (Lightening War)
Britain and France declare war on Germany