... to control by the Nazi Party and introduced draconian racial laws designed to dispossess, disenfranchise and eventually destroy the Jews living in Central Europe. Outside Germany Hitler had an equally ambitious program. 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. These subordinated territories were supposed to become part of the "New Order", supplying raw materials and labo...

• Word Count: 1833
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created under U.S. leadership to defend the west against the Soviet Union's ... military threat. Seventeen European countries, Canada, and the U.S. signed the treaty. Therefore, in 1955 Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and t...

• Word Count: 3726
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

... . During the 1930's Japan was very aggressive in Asia and Italy, lead by Mussolini was invading Ethiopia. French and British appeasement of Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany culminated in the Munich Pact of 1938. This sacrificed much of Czechoslovakia to Germany. France and Britain began to rearm and to offer guarantees to other potential victims of the Nazi aggression. In August of 1939 ... Germany and the Soviet Union, previously bitter enemies, concluded a non-aggression pact, thus freeing Hitler to invade Poland on September 1, 1939. France and Britain immediately declared war on ... ...

• Word Count: 1983
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... lays out his four foreign policy aims which were: 1.The destruction of the Treaty Of Versailles. This would allow Germany to rearm and regain lost territory. 2.To gain territory (living space) for Germany in eastern Europe. This would a war in order to defeat Soviet Bolshevism. 3.To include all German-speaking people in ... prepared to fight in order achieve his objectives. Many of Hitler's policies were achievable only through war; he knew that for him to succeed, Germany must become involved in a European conflict of some sort. Probably the best-known exposition of the lebensraum polic...

• Word Count: 1572
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School