Hitler's Foreign Policy

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What was Hitler's first aim in his foreign policy?

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Get rid of the Treaty of Versailles

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What was Hitler's aim in his policy of Volksgemeineschaft?

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To unite all German speaking peoples in a Greater Germany

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What was the aim of Hitler's policy of Lebensraum?

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To gain living space for the German people in Eastern Europe

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What was the first area of land which Germany regained through a plebiscite (a people's vote) in 1935? Options: The Rhineland, Austria, The Sudentenland, The Saarland

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The Saarland

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Which industrial area that France was supposed to control did Germany remilitarize in 1936? According to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was not allowed to station an army there.

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Rhineland

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Which reasons best shows why Hitler succeeded with the Anschluss--rejoining Austria and Germany in defiance of the treaty of Versailles? Options: Germany used heavy propaganda to convince the Austrians to allow this to happen. Austria was part of Germany. The Austrian Prime Minister & Austrian people welcomed and wanted this to happen. The German people resisted this move.

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The Austrian Prime Minister & Austrian people welcomed and wanted this to happen.

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Why did Hitler want to take over the Sudetenland?

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It contained millions of German speaking people, which supported Hitler's goal of Lebensraum; The land had been taken away from Germany in the Treaty of Versailles and Hitler wanted it back; It contained all of the Czechoslovakian military defences that the Nazis could take control over.

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Which country was the weak Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain representing, who became famous for appeasement of Hitler?

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Great Britain

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The Nazis succeeded in re-taking the Sudetenland. Which country was this historically Germanic region a part of, making it the next to be invaded?

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Czechoslovakia

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Which large country--with millions of Jewish inhabitants and Catholic christians--did Hitler want to invade in order to develop the largest territory yet in service of his ideology of Lebensraum by 1939?

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Poland