Hitler’s Foreign Policy & Rearmament
History: Cambridge International GCSE The Twentieth Century (Option B), topic 3.5.2
Hitler’s Foreign Policy
Hitler's main aims were abolishing the Treaty of Versailles and all of the terms it placed on Germany.
Versailles
- Abolish the Treaty of Versailles and all of the terms it placed on Germany.
Rearmament
- Re-arm Germany with a strong air force, navy and army.
- This was in order to:
- Make the country a strong nation again.
- Create jobs.
Volksdeutsche
- Unite all German-speaking people - Volksdeutsche - by taking back all of the land that was taken away in the Treaty of Versailles.
Lebensraum
- Gain additional land for the German people - Lebensraum - for farming and living on.
Anschluss
- Re-unite with Austria - Anschluss.
Fight Communism
- Fight Communism across the world so that it was destroyed.