Hitler's foreign policy (1)

What is the policy of appeasement ?

• to "appease", satisfy the public opinion by providing more resources

• agreeing to the demands of the opposite side for preventing tensions or war

• to send more troops to a specific region to calm, "appease", the situation

• To send more resources to opponents in exchange of peace

What Great Powers were behind this policy?

• Britain and Italy

  
  

• Japan and Italy

  
  

• Britain and France

  
  

• Japan and Germany
  

Hitler gained more confidence thanks to the appeasement policy and the failure of the League to react effectively. Who else also benefitted from it ?

• Italy and its leader Benito Mussolini

• Britain and its prime minister, Chamberlain

• Japan and Italy

• France and Britain

In 1933, Hitler became .................... of Germany.

What Hitler's actions involved military measures ?

• The Saar Plebiscite and the Rhineland

• The Saar and the Anschluss

  
  

• The Saar plebiscite and the rearmamement

• The Rhineland remilitarisation and the rearmament

Hitler had decided to rearm already years before these actions. Rearmament was also accompanied by the action to legally request that all men join and serve the army, action that is also called :

The Saar plebiscite took place in 1935. Can you give two words or terms related to this region and the plebiscite?

Why was the Saar region important ?

• it was a region that was mostly inhabited by German people.

• It was a rich region, with resources, railways and factories

• It was one of the regions that was under the Peace terms.

• It is a region that has been given to France and now, Germany wants it back.

What is a plebiscite and what was the result of the plebiscite in the Saarland in 1935 ?

The Saar plebiscite was also important for Hitler's plan because...

• it was a triumph for the Nazi regime and gave him more confidence

• it was the first step in uniting all Germans into the German Reich

• he gained more territories and resources

• Britain and France accepted and encouraged him to do so.