Hitler 's Foreign Policy During The World War II

Adolf Hitler is basically known for all the unpardonable things he has done. He drove Germany all through World War II. Hitler had amazing splendor; he was imaginative and keen. As a young man, his fantasy was to turn into a craftsman. Be that as it may, as he betrayed non-Aryans, the likelihood of him turning into a craftsman gradually floated from his psyche. Initially, he needed to turn into a craftsman, yet because of him not getting into Art school and the passing of his mom, his fantasies changed totally over the long haul.

The second World War can be considered “Hitler`s war” due to Adolf Hitlers responsibility and actions that caused the war. He had an enormous impact and role on many events such as secretly increasing the size fo the army,which made World War 2 possible. On the other hand, the failure of the League of Nations and defects in the Treaty of Versailles also triggered the outbreak of the war. It gave Hitler many oppurtunities to support his ambitions and policies. Hitlers Plan that could only be followed through with the help of mistakes such as the appeasement. It can also be argued that it was rather Germany than Hitler`s war as their reaction to World War 1.Many factors affected the outbreak

Adolf Hitler was one of the most influential people in the interwar era. His actions during the interwar era caused World War II, which had enormous impacts on almost every country in the world. There are three reasons why he gained so much influence in Germany. First of all people were disappointed in the current German government and wanted a change. Secondly, Hitler and his Nazi party were similar in ideology to the majority of people and finally he was a great orator who used his similarity to the rest of the German people to help his party grow and to help himself become dictator.

Many things that happen also have a trigger event – the final straw, or the

Hitler realized that the French and British Leaders were scared of his power and also of war. Hitler needed more living space for the German people and he thought of taking over Poland. Hitler began planning the invasion of Poland. After World War I, Poland's army was relatively weak and ill-equipped compared to Germany. To aid in its defense, Poland had formed military alliances with Great Britain and France. Massing their armies along the Polish border, the Germans staged a fake Polish attack on August 31, 1939. Using this as a pretext for war, German forces flooded across the border the next day. On September 3, Great Britain and France issued a warning to Germany to end the fighting. When no reply was received, both nations declared war. Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland before World War 2 but then from 1939 and June 1941 the German army invaded and occupied many countries like Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg,France, Denmark,Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway and Western Poland. In Source C (The cartoon from October 1938 by Low) shows a picture of Hitler as Santa popping every European country into his sack which means Germany over all and also Hitler realized that nobody could stop

Although both documents express similar ideologies, the documents were written due to different conditions. Hitler’s ideas expressed in “Mein Kampf” evolved from his hatred of Jews and enmity of the German parliament; on the other hand, “Kokutai No Hongi” ideas resulted from the oligarchy’s need to maintain their status and Japanese assimilation of European and American cultures. Hitler provided inspiration and hope to most Germans that were dissatisfied with the government and the aftermath of World War I. The “Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan” pandered to their Samurai heritage and their discontent with West as a result of the Great Depression. The ideas in both documents would persuade any westerner, specifically American and British, to the same extend as it did with Germans and Japanese, to tirelessly support war.

Tremendous crowds of men, women and children cheer and wave at the sight of a small plane landing. Beautiful buildings are seen from above along with a congregation of German soldiers. All of these positive images are in support of Adolf Hitler arriving in Germany in the 1935 film Triumph des Willens. This was only one of the millions of sources of propaganda that the United States was going up against in joining World War II six years later. The Nazi party was in power, Europe was in a state of distress, and soon the whole world would be involved in a war that would devastate mankind for generations to come. The Second World War consisted of the Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, and Japan; and the Allied Powers: France, Britain, and Russia. America would join the Allies on December 7, 1941 after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Not only was this war fought among the many soldiers that gave their lives for their country; there was a subtle fight among the government controlled moviemakers and poster designers. These men and women played an important role in portraying their enemies and the war in a way that would stick in their fellow citizens’ heads to bring some type of unity for the nation. These psychological soldiers promoted patriotism through propaganda to sway the people of their country. Propaganda is defined as, “ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one 's cause or to damage an opposing cause.” All of the participants in the war used it. Despite

World War II began September 1939 and started when Germany invaded Poland for the beginning of Adolf Hitler’s plan to create the race he believed should live. (Hughes, Britannica, WWII) Hitler wanted to gain control of Poland to be able to continue his belief of creating the race he believed to be the strongest; Poland had the support

The German invasion of Poland on September 1st 1939, was an experimental display of the most advanced and intense form of warfare the world had ever seen. With such a drastic use of power and with aspirations expanding so wide, the German “Wehrmacht”1, along with the Soviet Union and a small Slovak contingent, soon escalated a central European battle into a global conflict. The target of Poland, for such an experiment had been strategically chosen as a geographical and logistical advantage, a self-proclaimed repossession of pre-World War one land ownership, and an eastern front barrier with Germany’s newly established pact/ally (via the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), the USSR.

To assess the popularity of the Nazis one must first establish the meaning of popularity and in what ways it can be assessed. Popularity in this instance is support and conformity to the Nazi regime. This essay will span from Hitler and the party’s early days in the Burgerbraukeller in Munich up to the death of the regime in 1945. The evidence used will span from Hitler’s own words in ‘Mein Kampf’ to the masses of propaganda left behind upon the regimes collapse. The biggest historiographical debate in my opinion on this subject is ‘resistenz’ argued by Martin Broszat and ‘Loyal reluctance’ argued mainly by Robert Gellately and Ian Kershaw. During this essay both sides will be evaluated with the idea of popularity at the forefront and how each argument adds or detracts from my argument that the Nazis were mainly a popular regime.

Other intentionalist historians such as N. Rich and G. Weinberg also point to the fact that writings, speeches and in policy throughout the 1930’s leading Nazi’s identified a consistent thread through their policies relating to ‘race and space.’ They go on to further emphasized the importance of Hitler’s planned foreign policy motivated by racial purity and expansion clearly explored in his Mein Kampf-‘The aim of our political activity must be…the acquisition of land and soil as the objective of our foreign policy.’ Moreover Hitler’s war-like intentions were revealed in the Hossbach Memorandum in 1937 in which he revealed his plans for conquest of Austria and Czechoslovakia with military officials. Though historians feel Hitler always had intentions for a ‘Greater Germany’ as in the invasion of Austria and Sudetenland, J. Clare felt the ‘move into the rest of Czechoslavakia showed that Hitler wanted more than just German land.’ Hitler’s ideological belief in ‘turning [Germany’s eyes towards the land in the East’ is further emphasized by his invasion of Danzig and Poland in 1939.

From the time Hitler and the Nazi’s took control of Germany in 1933 until the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, the aim of the regime under the calculating guidance of Hitler himself sought no less than global conquest. This ambitious objective can be further dissected into short term and long term goals that provide insight into Hitler’s character, thoughts and actions.

that Hitler was a “sincere man who had no intention to provoke a war.” He too,

What were the responses of the European powers? British and French leaders misinterpreted Hitler’s intentions. They believed it was Hitler’s desire to just have the restrictions that were handed down in the peace settlement overturned. However, come 1939 they started to believe Hitler had desire to dominate Europe. On September 1, 1939, German invaded Poland, and two days later the Western Powers declared war on Germany. So, for the first eight months of the war Western Europe remained quiet. Britain’s Prime Minister Chamberlain believed the war would hurt the Germany economy so much that it would lead to civilian morale collapse. The British and the French declared war on Germany, but with any real drive to do battle. Both are concerned with what the Soviet Union is doing in Finland, but they don’t get involved with that as well as with Germany and Poland. While Poland was under attack, the French made an offensive named Saar. The Saar Offensive could have been a game changer to German troops, in the war with Poland, but because of the French’s laid back approach they failed to defeat the Germans and once Poland fell the French withdrew. The lackluster response from France was largely due to the beating they took in WW I.

It was broadly considered that the Second World War began in 1939 because of Hitler’s plan for world domination; many historians validated this view at the time until A.J.P. Taylor published his book ‘Origins of the Second World War’ in 1961. A. J. P Taylor was the first historian to examine the war with a completely open mind, forcing people to view the origins not as a moral issue but as a political history. Taylor regards the start of the war as a blunder on both sides, stating that “Hitler had no clear-cut plan and instead was a supreme opportunist, taking advantages as they came.” From this Taylor suggests that neither