Hitler's Foreign Policy

Classnotes
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzA9F91DKfePc3RldjdVZ2hhV0k


Court Case documents


Evidence Pack
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzA9F91DKfePMFlYbTRBRThGaWc

Extra Evidence:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzA9F91DKfePQ2lmam1MT1NRaDg

Source sheets:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzA9F91DKfePeVNkekw1ZDM0RXM



Timeline of Hitler's Foreign Policy

1933  Germany left the League of Nations.

1934   Attempted Nazi coup in Austria crushed.
          Poland and Germany sign alliance.

1935  Germany broke the military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles

1936  German troops reoccupied the Rhineland.
         Rome-Berlin Axis signed

1938  Anschluss with Austria.
         Sudetenland handed to Germany as a result of the Munich conference.

1939 Rest of the Czech lands occupied by the Germans.
Germany invaded Poland.
WWII began


Aims of Foreign Policy

Clip
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/2455.flvs

Rhineland

Clip about the Rhineland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-reoccupation-of-the-rhineland/6072.html


Austria

Clip (Rhineland and Austia together)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/hitler-annexes-the-rhineland-and-austria/2462.html

A very good clip about the Anschluss with Austria
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-anschluss/3867.html

BBC Witness Programme (BBC Radio 4)
The Anschluss

In March 1938 Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany - it would not regain its independence for more than 17 years.

One Vienna resident remembers the day that Hitler's troops marched in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rg2jv


Appeasement Policy

An explanation of the Appeasement Policy:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/britains-policy-of-appeasement/3861.html

Clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6YvSCIPBAA

BBC Bitesize Appeasement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/chamberlainandappeasementrev1.shtml


Sudentenland Crisis and the Munich Agreement

Clip
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-munich-agreement/3871.html

A timeline of the Crisis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/chamberlainandappeasementrev2.shtml

A helpsheet about the crisis
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzA9F91DKfePNmtnRFJBVzV3czQ/edit?usp=sharing

End of Appeasement (invasion of Czechoslovakia 1939)

Clip
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-invasion-of-czechoslovakia/3872.html


BBC Bitesize
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/endofappeasementrev1.shtml

Nazi Soviet Pact

Clip (all of the events of 1939)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/hitler-annexes-czechoslovakia-and-invades-poland/2473.html

A detailed explanation about the Nazi Soviet Pact
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt3mabMhpbc

An excellent overview (map) which explains the importance of the Pact
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzA9F91DKfePSFR3SHZnS0t0R0U/edit?usp=sharing

BBC Bitesize link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/nazisovietpactrev1.shtml

BBC Bitesize revision video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/nazisovietpact_video.shtml

Revision

Notes
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3do2zpMrWVxz5ICGijCm7eeoX3fIwhjHU5JdWUNCXU/edit?usp=sharing


Games
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/fling/roadtowar/

BBC Bitesize

Road to the Second World War (Clip)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/war2act.shtml