WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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lebensraum
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blitzkrieg
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volksgemeinschaft
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mach schnell
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Detailed explanation-1: -Meaning “living space, ” it was a basic principle of Nazi foreign policy. Hitler believed that eastern Europe had to be conquered to create a vast German empire for more physical space, a greater population, and new territory to supply food and raw materials.
Detailed explanation-2: -One key idea was lebensraum, or living space, denoting the homeland or geographical habitat for a particular race or people (Völker). Ratzel referred to this integration of society and territory as a “race–land bond.” Land was seen as the wellspring of resources needed to build a strong society.
Detailed explanation-3: -Along with the rising popularity of geopolitics, lebensraum was developed into a geopolitical concept to explain the evolution of country system, which served as a theoretical support for Fascism. In the first half of the 20th century, German geographers played a leading role in lebensraum research.