HISTORY REVISION

A.List in paragraph
B.List 3 well explained points in paragraph
C. Yes or no

1a. Describe the incident of Saar plebiscite

1b. Anschluss with Austria
1c. Are you surprised that Britain and France declare
war on Germany in September 1939
2a. describe the events in February and march in 1938
that lead to Anschluss
2b. how did Spanish civil war benefit Hitler
2c. Hitler agreed the Nazi soviet pact in other to avoid
war against nazi Soviet Union/Russia, how far do you
agree
3a. What Hitler did to break the treaty of Versailles
3b. Reasons for Policy of Appeasement
3c. the increase in aggression in 1930s was caused by
economic crises in 1930s, how far you agree with that
4a. what part did German armed forces played in the
Spanish civil war?
4b. why did Britain and France not challenge the
remilitarization of Rhineland
4c. are you surprised that Chamberlin signed the
Munich agreement

ANSWERS
1a. Saar was taken from Germany after the First World
War and given to France according to the treaty of
Versailles on June 28, 1919. Since Saar plebiscite was
rich in coal, France could economically recover with
those resources as the northeaster parts were
severely damaged and that was their most advanced
agricultural area. After 15 years, In January 1935 a
plebiscite was decided to know if they wanted to stay
in France, go to Germany or stay in the League of
Nations. The shocking result later on came out with
over 90% of voters for Saar going to Germany.

1b. The reasons for the Anschluss with Austria were to

unite all German speaking people together as his
native homeland Austria had 98% of German-
speaking people and this complimented hitlers goal to
create a greater Germany as Austria was also a very
powerful zone with military power because they had
just broken away from one of the world powers
Austro-hungary so it was suspected that they would
still significantly have power furthermore, they had
useful resources such as iron, lignite, lead and zinc,..
He also wanted to control a large German-speaking
area with Czechoslovakia known as the Sudetenland
which with Austria shared a border so he was trying
to make a strategic move by annexing Austria to get
closer to Czechoslovakia’s sudentenland making it
easier for Germany to annex with them to. He also
wanted lebensraum which meant living space, as
Austria was about 32,386 square miles however, these
are all evidence that the main reason was to achieve
his foreign policy
1c. no
The annexation of Austria (Anschluss) in 1938, The
Munich Agreement of September 1938 allowed
Germany to annex the Sudetenland clearly stated
his territorial demands and these signaled Hitler's
expansionist ambitions. Hitler's invasion of Poland
on September 1, 1939, demonstrated his disregard
for international agreements and posed a threat to
European stability as Britain and France had
pledged to defend Poland through agreements like
 the Anglo-Polish of 1939 and Franco-Polish of 1921
alliances.
Yes
Various appeasement policy actions like that of the
munich agreement in 1938 allowing them to annex
with sudentenland caused a belief that they would
continue to appease them even after the invasion of
Poland as they weren’t completely ready for another
war so it would be a huge surprise when they
declared war, however Britain and france sustained a
lot of damage to themselves after world war 1 The
war cost Britain 715,000 military deaths, 10% of its
domestic assets and 24% of its overseas assetswhile
fance of 8 million Frenchmen 1.3 million dead and
almost 1 million crippled, and devastated large parts
of northeastern France which was their most
advanced agricultural zone and clearly hadn’t fully
recovered as they had a desire to avoid another large
scale conflict that it would act as a shock they
declared war, in early September There were ongoing
diplomatic efforts to prevent war, such as the last-
minute negotiations and ultimatums given to
Germany before the outbreak of hostilities These
negotiations involved attempts by Britain and France
to convince Germany to withdraw its forces from
Poland and to settle the crisis diplomatically. For
example, the British government sent a series of
diplomatic messages to Berlin, including an ultimatum
delivered on September 3, 1939, demanding the
withdrawal of German troops from Poland..

2a. Hitler was Austrian-born who wanted to create a

‘Greater Germany’, that include his native homeland
and all ethic lands and territories lost in WW1. IN
1934 he ordered the Austrian Nazis to create havoc in
Austria in attempt to overthrow their government,
but that coup failed because the Austrian military
came in to back up the government while having
support from Italy to move troops in the Austrian
border. The chancellor, Schuschnigg signed a pact to
try to preserve Austria but that was He was later
undermined after Hitler and Mussolini became allies
to form the Rome-Berlin Axis which caused Austria to
lose protection. Hitler pressured the chancellor to give
the Nazi key government so he ordered the Nazi to
cause trouble in order to pressure Schuschnigg and on
March 13, 1938 Hitler proclaimed the Anschluss
2b. The war benefited Hitler in a lot of ways. It helped
him test his new air force Luftwaffe in dive-bombings
techniques on Guernica. Hitler also succeeded in
persuading Mussolini to abandon France and Britain,
which resulted in the formation of the Rome-Berlin
Axis in 1936 and this formed a coalation between Italy
and Germany . The Spanish civil war caused a
distraction which Hitler took advantage of and
conquered Austria and Czechoslovakia during that
time evidence is seen in Anschluss in march 1938 and
occupation of Czechoslovakia during march 1939

3a. Hitler broke the treaty of Versailles in a lot of ways

like when he reunited with Austria in 1939 (Anschluss
with Austria) even do the treaty forbade it, He also
broke it when he remilitarized with Rhineland 1936
which was forbidding by the League of Nations also
when he took over Czechoslovakia diplomatically on
15 march 1939

3b. To make it possible for Britain and France to

prepare for the war by avoiding Germany, they also
wanted to avoid immediate conflict by attempting to
appease Hitlers demands which Britain and France
taught would prevent another devasting world war,
lastly since appeasement was very popular among
some sections of the public, by pursuing a policy of
appeasement, the government could maintain public
support and avoid the unpopularity of engaging in
another war

4a. Hitler wanted to test his air force which was called
Luftwaffe in 1937 in Guernica, He also wanted to form
a union with Italy so as to not be stopped from
achieving Anschluss with Austria because the last
time they tried in 1934 Italy stopped them, He also
wanted to use the war as a smoke screen to distract
western power so he could do other things elsewhere.
Hitler was also looking for allies in order to prepare
for the Second World War and he got them from the
Spanish civil war

4b. Britain and France did not stop Germany because

at that time Britain was still appeasing Hitler, Britain
still believed that Germany was unnecessarily
punished and that Rhineland belonged to Germany
and for Germany to be protected they need their
military there, also France did not stop Hitler because
France was engaged in election and they would have
been distracted from the election if they had engaged
in the remilitarization of Rhineland

4c.