Germany Foreign Policy in Wwii

Foreign policies that weakened power of Germany | Remilitarization of the Rhineland | * UnderTreaty of Versailles, Germany was "forbidden to maintain or construct any fortification either on the Left bank of the Rhine or on the Right bank to the west of a line drawn fifty kilometers to the East of the Rhine". * During January 1936, the German Chancellor and Führer Adolf Hitler decided to reoccupy the Rhineland. * Hitler ordered that German forces would leave at once if the French intervened militarily * On March 7, 1936, nineteen German infantry battalions and a handful of planes entered the Rhineland. Hitler inquired whether the French forces had actually crossed the border but the french never did. * This incident changes the nazi foreign policy since they realized that the Allies were weak for wars to happen | The Treaty of Versailles | * The economy was ruined as much of the produce and profit had to be sent to the allies as reparations payments. This meant that the German economy was unable to recover itself. * The disarmament of the armed forces was viewed as an embarrassment and the Germans felt very insecure about their inability to defend themselves: it also meant a loss of status as military power means that a nation has political clout. | Anglo-German Naval Agreement (A.G.N.A) | * bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and German Reich regulating the size of the Royal Navy. * For the Germans, the A.G.N.A. was intended to mark the beginning of an Anglo-German alliance against France and the Soviet Union, whereas for the British, the A.G.N.A. was to be the beginning of a series of arms limitation agreements that were made to limit German expansionism. | Nazi Economic Policy 1933-1939 | * One of the most important reasons why the Nazi Party gained in popularity in the late 1920s was because of the economic chaos in Germany after the Wall St Crash of 1929. The Nazis realised that if they were to gain and keep mass