AICE INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PAPER 2
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QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What were the implications of Mussolini's foreign policy? Answer: •
friendly relations (1923-34)
• aggressive foreign policy (after 1934)
•involvement in Spanish civil war to create another fascist state
- gain a naval base
⩥ Why did civil war break out in Spain? Answer: •political instability in
Spain
•problems with the new republic
•Spain divided between multiple political groups (fascist and left-Wing
groups)
⩥ What were the aims of Hitler's foreign policy? Answer: •challenging
the treaty of Versailles
•unite all German speaking people (annexing Austria and taking territory
from Czechoslovakia and Poland)
•expand eastward to achieve lebensraum
• recover lost territory (Saar and Polish Corridor)
• Achieve Anschluss
, ⩥ What were the implications of Hitlers foreign policy? Answer: •
attempted Anschluss and the return of the Saar region
• rearmament
• took territory from Czechoslovakia and Poland
⩥ Why did Hitler invade Poland? Answer: •He had agreed that Germany
and Russia could get part of Poland (nazi-soviet pact)
•to give Germans lebensraum
•he believed nations would continue to follow appeasement (ex.
Chamberlain backing down at Munich conference to his claims to the
Sudetenland)
•to overturn the treaty of Versailles (take back polish corridor and
Danzig)
⩥ Hitler intend to cause a major war Answer: He did
• Mein Kampf (Lebensraum seizing land in poland and the USSR)
• Treaties such as the Rome-Berlin Axis and Anti-Comintern Pact
• Hitlers aims could only be achieved by war (ex. taking land from
Poland when Britain pledged support)
⩥ Hitler did NOT intend to cause major war Answer: He didn't
• Lebensraum was a propaganda exercise to attract support for Nazi's
• Opportunistic
2025 TEST BANK 2026 UPDATED
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What were the implications of Mussolini's foreign policy? Answer: •
friendly relations (1923-34)
• aggressive foreign policy (after 1934)
•involvement in Spanish civil war to create another fascist state
- gain a naval base
⩥ Why did civil war break out in Spain? Answer: •political instability in
Spain
•problems with the new republic
•Spain divided between multiple political groups (fascist and left-Wing
groups)
⩥ What were the aims of Hitler's foreign policy? Answer: •challenging
the treaty of Versailles
•unite all German speaking people (annexing Austria and taking territory
from Czechoslovakia and Poland)
•expand eastward to achieve lebensraum
• recover lost territory (Saar and Polish Corridor)
• Achieve Anschluss
, ⩥ What were the implications of Hitlers foreign policy? Answer: •
attempted Anschluss and the return of the Saar region
• rearmament
• took territory from Czechoslovakia and Poland
⩥ Why did Hitler invade Poland? Answer: •He had agreed that Germany
and Russia could get part of Poland (nazi-soviet pact)
•to give Germans lebensraum
•he believed nations would continue to follow appeasement (ex.
Chamberlain backing down at Munich conference to his claims to the
Sudetenland)
•to overturn the treaty of Versailles (take back polish corridor and
Danzig)
⩥ Hitler intend to cause a major war Answer: He did
• Mein Kampf (Lebensraum seizing land in poland and the USSR)
• Treaties such as the Rome-Berlin Axis and Anti-Comintern Pact
• Hitlers aims could only be achieved by war (ex. taking land from
Poland when Britain pledged support)
⩥ Hitler did NOT intend to cause major war Answer: He didn't
• Lebensraum was a propaganda exercise to attract support for Nazi's
• Opportunistic
