WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Imperialism
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Appeasement
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Isolationism
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Containment
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Detailed explanation-1: -Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hitler had four main aims in foreign policy: To undo the hated Treaty of Versailles . Hitler blamed the treaty for much of Germany’s troubles since 1918. To unite all German speaking people into a Grossdeutschland (Greater Germany).
Detailed explanation-3: -In terms of foreign policy, Hitler pulled out of the League of Nations (a worldwide intergovernmental organization created in 1920) in 1933, reoccupied Rhineland (1936) and was able to integrate Austria and Germany under one slogan-one people, one empire and one leader.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hitler had three main aims in his foreign policy: revise the Treaty of Versailles. unite all German-speaking people into one Reich. expand eastwards to achieve Lebensraum.