Hitler's Foreign Policy example essay topic

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Was Hitler's foreign policy one of the most important reasons for the outbreak of World War 2? I think that without any doubt we can say that Hitler's foreign policy was one of the main reasons for the outbreak of the second world war, but his foreign policy would certainly not have been feasible if it had not been for a variety of reasons including the extremely poor outcome of the then newly formed league of nations, They were however a number of reasons that would ensure the League of Nations would fail right from the start, first and foremost was the exclusion of America and the U.S.S. R from the league, The U.S. A by choice and the Russians were simply ignored, these proved to be a huge faltering point for the league, as none of the countries actually in the league were willing to commit an army as they wanted their army for various other reasons; France wanted theirs as they were concerned about the growing threat of Adolph Hitler to the east, and Britain was more concerned about defending her empire in Asia and Australasia, and the other nations were simply to small to commit an army, so the League didn't actually have any army to threaten or "flex it's muscles" with which greatly helped Hitler among others expand their empires, which was proved by the Japanese taking Manchuria, and the Italians taking Abyssinia, and zb as the league was busy fretting over these problems, Hitler started probing Neville Chamberlains great theory of appeasement which consisted mainly giving the problem causing nation what they want in an effort to keep them quiet and happy, this technique soon proved to backfire horribly on the league of nations as this allowed Hitler to take complete advantage of his position and occupy the Rhineland, then go on to take over Austria, though this move was deemed fair by most but not officially as they agreed with Hitler that the Austrian population was greatly Germanic anyway. However Hitler was about to make one move to far which was to try and takeover Poland, and when he attempted this (successfully) Britain and France finally decided that enough was enough and declared war on Iraq. Hitler's conquest of Poland was fuelled by his somewhat crazy idea of "Lebensraum" or living space which stated that the new "Aryan" race would need extra living space and Hitler believed that Eastern Europe (Russia in the end) would solve this problem. The people in Britain and France did not want another War after they had all been through the Great war, so Chamberlain was praised at first for his policy of appeasement, it was only when Hitler started demanding more and more that peoples minds started to change, and when he invaded Poland most people knew that war was now inevitable, so when war was declared people couldn't really blame Chamberlain because at the time they though that he was doing the right thing. Hitler was helped by the fact that the British people sent to negotiate with him were very "tea and crumpets" in the way that they were very posh and believed Hitler when he promised he was happy with the Sudetenland and would not demand any more of Europe, looking at all of these points we can say that Hitler's foreign policy was a big factor in the outbreak of the war, but we must not forget how big a role some of these factors played..