A key component of Nazi ideology, which greatly impacted on Germanys foreign policy, was greater Germany. ... The Nazis had further succeeded with this ambition in 1938 with the annexation of Austria and Germany (Anschluss) in order to reunite the Germans in Austria with Germany once again. ... The Nazi ideology of lebensraum was implemented into German foreign policy as 'living space' was seen by Hitler as a necessity to further unify Germans living outside German boarders. ... However when hitler came to power, his foreign policy had aims of eradicting the treaty and to rearm Germ...

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When the American businessmen who had invested money into the German industries sought the return of it, Germany suffered immensely. ... The Nazis reassured the German people by reducing unemployment, rearming the country and aiming to make Germany self-sufficient. ... In 1935, Hitler ignored the ruling of the Treaty of Versailles and began to rearm Germany. ... His main aim was to make Germany self -sufficient. ... He did make an impact on Germany though. ...

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After all, Germany needed to defend itself against Communist Russia. ... While they were rearming, so was Hitler. ... Appeasement gave him more time to rearm and it made Germany stronger. If Germany became stronger, it would therefore be harder to defeat. ... Although Britain needed time to rearm, Germany would still continue to rearm and would still be strong and powerful, so rearming would not help to win the war. ...

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He rearmed Germany to the point where his neighbours, particularly France, felt threatened. ... Also Great Britain had encouraged Hitler to rearm with the Anglo-German naval agreement. Hitler was not the first German leader to rearm the country but he was the first to announce publicly that he was doing so. Other German leaders had continued to develop weapons in Russia after the signing of the Rapallo Treaty between Russia and Germany. ... The Russians and Germans had sealed the Polish fate. ...

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This shows that the defeated countries were indeed in this position of Germany, the "leaders" and they gained power over Germany as she had to do what they said. ... Furthermore, the limitations to the size of her navy meant that Germany had less protection and this made Germany even more prone and vulnerable to foreign attack and because of its major loss of land, Germany also felt like it had been weakened and split apart altogether. ... In the following years after the Great War, Hitler rearmed Germany and occupied the Sudetenland and allied with Austria which were things that wer...

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., Rhineland 1936, the German and Austrian "Anschluss" in 1938 and the Czech Sudetenland crisis of 1938. ... Although Chamberlain thought that appeasement would buy time to re-arm in case war did start, they didn't actually start to rearm until March 1939, when the rest of Czechoslovakia was taken. This was obviously too late and if they had started rearming from the time of appeasement they would have been more prepared to fight in the war that followed soon after. One of the terms of Appeasement was that Germany got some of Czechoslovakia's land. This was morally wrong because th...

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This was an industrial region on the border between Germany and Poland and both German and Polish people inhabited it. ... Germany was granted entry into the League in 1926. ... The Germans had been in the League for six years. ... The big question was whether everyone else should disarm to the level that Germany had been forced to, or whether the Germans should be allowed to rearm to a level closer to that of other powers. The experience of the 1920's showed that the first option was a non-starter and by this stage, all the powers knew that Hitler was secretly rearming. ...

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TO WHAT EXTENT WAS NAZI GERMANY TO BLAME FOR THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II? ... Versailles created political discontent and economic chaos 1in Germany. ... By 1933, due to several reasons, Hitler was able to make his party the largest in Germany and also very cleverly change the German constitution so that he could become dictator of Germany. ... Almost as soon as the Nazis came to power, Germany began to rearm. ... He aimed to completely overturn the Treaty which would restore German pride and make Germany strong once again; it would also unite all German people together in ...

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Hitler claimed the German people only needed one party. ... Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by rearming his military. ... These reasons and more led to the war with Germany. ... Also, the pact with the Soviets led to the war with Germany. ... Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles by rearming his military when he was told not to. ...

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This state is known as Germany. ... By 1938 Germany had rearmed and was aggressively expanding both its physical and economic boarders. ... Approximately 70% of existing East German industry fails to meet the West German environmental laws. ... It is the nature of politics to say that as German power grows so will German influence, the only peaceful alternative and answer to the German question is the E.U. ... Germany is as much of a part ...

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Britain and France could not argue with this because they wanted to keep Germany disarmed. Germany had already started to rearm and Hitler had been successful. ... France felt that taking revenge on Germany for World War One would prevent another war. ... When Italy fought the German invasion of Austria, Britain and France saw Italy as a possible ally against Germany and formed the Stresa Front outwith the League of Nations. ... After this, Italy and Germany became allies. ...

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In Hitler's expansionist policy, Hitler invaded targetted countries in order to achieve his goals of a Greater Germany. ... The Munich Agreement was not a disaster as it bought time for Britain and France to rearm. ... The Munich Agreement managed to settle Germany's threat of war for Sudetenland, and put off World War II for another year. This gave Britain and France a better standing against Germany and Italy in the world war as they had more time to build their armed forces. Thus, in the long run, althought it could not completely prevent World War II, it gave Britain and France t...

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The Treaty of Versailles The terms of treaty of Versailles such as reparations, war guilt, disarmament, and loss of German territory made German anger and cause German to hatred towards against the allies. ... The first reason which made Germany anger was disarmament. ... The Germans thought and complained that the allies were trying to bankrupt Germany by making high amount of reparation claims. ... By making Germany to pay huge amount of reparation, France tried to avoid German's to rearm again and attack France. ... By this, Ger...

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These two men were Benito Mussolini, the leader of Italy, and Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany. ... Although this type of rule may not seem appealing, Hitler used it to help Germany out of a deep economical depression, winning the hearts of many Germans. ... Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, and destroyed cities in Spain, and Hitler began to rearm his country. ... For Hitler, his beliefs were that the world should be rid of all those who were not "pure German" and of the Aryan race-blonde, blue-eyed, tall Germans. ... If one was not part of the pure German bloodline, helping keep Germany p...

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France and Britain began to rearm and to offer guarantees to other potential victims of the Nazi aggression. ... Germany's attempt to bomb Britain into submission was the only German failure of the wars early years. ... By spring 1944 Allied bombers were pounding Germany and the German U-Boats were no longer a threat. ... To keep the Germans in this area U.S. ... Some German troops put up heavy resistance. ...

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He wanted to (re) unite all German-speaking territory (the German parts of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria) in one German Reich - the "Third Reich" - and to subordinate economically and politically the other nations of Eastern Europe to the new Germany. ... He knew that German rearmament would cause big problems for Germany therefore he started it secretly. ... But German army was so weak at the time. ... Stalin gained time to rearm in case Hitler attacked him later, and the chance to gain the eastern half of Poland. ... But this is an official opinion because Stalin wanted more than time ...

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This was because the other countries felt that Germany was the cause of world war (I) and suggested that Germany needed to pay for all the reparations. ... The overall reaction from Germany was an outrage. ... Britain and Germany signed an agreement in 1935 known as the Appeasement policy. ... Chamberlain believed that this policy would benefit Germany and encourage peace. ... While the invasion of Abyssinia was going on, Hitler used this as an opportunity to proceed with his plans as he rearmed the Rhineland. ...

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Schacth the German in charge of finances and the Reichsbank considered himself to be innocent in the absolute. He stated that he did help rearm Germany but that was hardly a crime because the allied military inspectors watched as we broke the treaty of Versailles. ... The document outlined the Germany s plan to take over Eastern Europe. ... The next key witness in the case was General Lahousen who was head of German counter-intelligence. ... He said, He simply wanted to make Germany an economic force. ...

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His dream was to build a "new Germany" under his own leadership, to overturn the treaty of Versailles and to establish Germany as a major European power. ... This would allow Germany to rearm and regain lost territory. 2.To gain territory (living space) for Germany in eastern Europe. ... Germany was the only great power disarmed in the treaty. ... The Russians and Germans had sealed the Polish fate. On 1 September 1939 Germany attacked Poland. ...

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During 1919 the cause of the tragic World War 1 was ultimately believed to be Germany. ... However this was not the case and Germany failed to meet the reparation demands in 1922. ... By issuing this operation Germany's industry ceased, leaving goods for trading scarce. ... Hitler just like many Germans was appalled and furious that the feeble German Government had agreed to the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. ... He had already broken the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles by using conscription as a means of employment to strengthen and rearm Germany. ...

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Most of all, he was the creation of German history and of the German present. He would have counted for nothing without the support and cooperation of the German people. ... In international affairs there was nothing wrong with Hitler except that he was a German. ... A-LEVEL QUESTIONS These tend to pivot on the problem of why Nazism triumphed in Germany. ... , History Review, September 1995, pages 54-59 R Eatwell, Fascism: a History (1996) - a handy paperback, published by Vintage J Laver, Germany's Fate or Germany's Misfortune? ...

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The first was a victory over Nazi Germany. ... He tried to build the Royal Navy and Admiralty beyond what was considered an acceptable level, and he went on a mission to modernize the navy to meet the growing German challenge. ... Churchill became a staunch opponent of Hitler and Nazi Germany. He argued passionately for the need to rearm Britain and prepare for imminent war, having grave forebodings about the growing might of Germany. ... He was a bulldog against Germany and a courageous champion of the British people. ...

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His stated intention was to bring law, order, economic prosperity, and pride back to Germany. The people of Germany favored him and treated him as a "god"", as his power gradually increased. Germany and Poland had a dispute over the city of Danzig. ... Saddam's Iraqi forces were soundly defeated, but it wasn't enough to deter Saddam from regrouping, rearming, and seeking to amass weapons of mass destruction. ... Hitler was taking over Austria and Czechoslovakia and Germany terrorized thousands of innocent Jews. ...

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For example, Germany under their dictator Hitler attacked Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria and other small countries around Germany early in the war. ... Germany alone was in debt for 33 billion dollars. ... As a result, Germans joined and supported the Nazi party. ... At that point both Italy and Germany invaded new territory. ... Those countries had non-democratic governments, they were rearming, and they were not being peaceful. ...

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In response to the U.S. actions, Japan made an agreement with Germany and Italy known as The Tripartite Pact. ... However, this attack from Japan left U.S. open to declare war on Japan and Germany's own declaration of war on the United States. After the attack on Pearl Harbor and Adolf Hitler's declaration of war, the U.S. began formulating new strategies to prepare for the war with Germany. Even though the U.S. would like to conduct a counterattack against Japan after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. didn't have enough assets or resources to confront Japan in the Pacific in conjunction w...

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