What was hitlers foriegn policy?

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Hitler's Foreign Policy
Hitler’s aims:

- Revise treaty of Versailles
- unite all German speaking people in one country (make a greater Germany )
- living space (lebensraum) -- to be independent

- In the east wanted:
- as far as the Caucasus and Iran .

- In the west:
- Flanders ( Belgium ) and Holland .
- Need Sweden to become colonial power.

Thought he should rule all Europe because otherwise it would fall apart as a nation.

Wanted the Sudetenland because it had:
Coal and copper mines
Power stations
Good framing land
The Skoda arms works, the biggest in Europe
Protection, bohemian Alps and chain of fortresses.
People there spoke German

Wanted Polish Corridor because:
- divided the country in two
- German speaking people

The Rhineland :
- wanted to rearm; control over it again.

Austria :
- Hitler was Austrian (NB)
- 8 million German speaking people
- was banned by treaty of Versailles (revise treaty)
- to help make Germany strong

Nazi ideology:
- hated treaty of Versailles (harsh and unfair)
- economic problem is insufficient land to sustain needs of growing population.
- Superiority of German (Aryan) race
- Against Jews and slaves
- Hatred of communism

Planning for conquest:
Achieving doctorial power
Dealing with internal opposition -à having SA, secret police, enabling act
Withdraw from Geneva conference and League of Nations .
Gaining control of army after death of Hindenburg, army or Wehrmacht. SA would be military forces.
Signed a non-aggression pact with Poland . (1934)
Recover economy through the New Plan.

In the long term:
Win over German people through education, censorship and propaganda.
Prepare German youth for future war.
Prepare German economy for war – four year plan –> 1936 – 1940
Weaken international system
Rearmament, at first secretly, but then openly

Economic planning—
- overcome depression -- new plan was to satisfy middle and working class.
- Lay foundations for a stronger Germany .
- New plan introduced by Schacht:
- Imports limited
- Strengthen currency
- Increase government spending
- Reduce unemployment: Public works projects
- Compulsory National Labour Service
- Conscription (1935)
- Filling the jobs of Jews and political opponents with unemployed people

Removing and controlling opposition:
Trade unions, workers, women and Jews
National labour service
German Labour Front – Beauty of Labour and Strength through Joy

To prepare Germany for Blitzkrieg (defeat the opposition quickly)

Were the economic plans a success?

New plan:

- Reduced unemployment from 6 million to 1.5 million
- Increased currency value
- Depended less on imports à this went against world trade project
- Bad jobs
- Workers lost rights and were controlled through organisations
- Work through conscription, no good for economy.
- Hard workers and loyal people benefited. Lack of consumer goods, long working hours made it bad. Things got better than the depression.

Four year plan:

- Reduced unemployment
- Prepared for blitzkrieg instead of bettering people
- Little consumer goods, not everyone received their promised Volkswagen.
- Depend on imports for 1/3 of their raw materials -> expansionist foreign policy.
- Economy prepared only for short termed war.

First Moroccan Crisis, 1906
France hoped to conquer Morocco in Africa, and one of the points of the Entente Cordiale (1904) was that the British would help them. But in 1905, Kaiser Wilhelm visited Morocco and promised to protect Morocco against anyone who threatened it.

Effects
The French were furious with Germany.

The British saw it as yet another attempt by Germany to build a German Empire to rival Britain's empire.

A Conference was held at Algericas (1906), where Britain and Russia supported France, and Germany was forced to promise to stay out of Morocco. This in turn annoyed Germany, who thought that they were 'ganging up' to stop Germany occupying its rightful place in the world.

In 1907, Britain and Russia, alarmed by German ambitions, made an Entente.

Bosnian crisis, 1908
Turkey had been in decline for a long time. In 1908 there was a revolution in Turkey, and Austria-Hungary took advantage of this to annex (take over) the Turkish state of Bosnia.

Effects
Serbia was furious, because Bosnia included many Serbs whom it had hoped to rule. This eventually led to the assassination at Sarajevo and the First World War.

Serbia asked her ally Russia to help, and Russia called a European Conference, expecting support from France and Britain. However, Britain and France did NOT support Russia, no conference took place, and Russia had to back down and was humiliated - but Russia vowed not to back down again. This, again, was to help to cause the war in 1914.

Hitler's foreign policy was trying to take over the world!

make allies, conquer the allies neighbors, break treaty with allies, attack allies and repeat. worked good, until the shock value wore off, and he started facing more eqully equiped armies and real commanders, unloike those in Poland, Chechslovakia,Rumania,France , and Belgium. He failed at obsessing and trying to take the Soviet Union, (after breaking treay, after taking poland etc) and when Japan (never really allies) bombed Pearl Harbor, with out his approval, He was furious, and knew it was only a matter of time and his "empire" would be no more.