two similarity of Hitler and Mussolini foreign policy
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Similarities
- Both foreign policies geared to achieving great power status
o Hitler: lebensraum, wanted to have living space for the expansion
of the German race and control over other groups
o Mussolini: wanted control over Mara nostrum, Abyssinia, …an empire
- fascist states
o had anti communist feelings;
o both signed anti comintern pact 1937 against USSR
o Spanish civil war against communism helping Franco secure power
o Signed pact of steel in may 1939, a full military alliance
- unhappy with status quo, wanted international prestige
o national grievances on Versailles, people wanted to change
Versailles
o Hitler, product of WW1 who was angry at Versailles and wanted to see
Germany achieve great power status
o Mussolini; felt that Italy had been treated unfairly at Versailles
and also waned to change the status quo
o Because of this both built up armies, navies and air forces..
Italian air force to block out the sun + German luftwaffe…
- both Hitler and Mussolini, used diplomacy and force as well as
aggression to get what they wanted
o Mussolini over Greece where it undermined the LofN, used force to
take Abyssinia 1935
o Hitler used the threat of force to take Austria and diplomacy as
well as force to take Czech and Saarland in 193…
- by 1939 both had a common enemy; Britain and France
- both were aggressive nationalists and glorified warw
- both wanted empires; abysinnia and lebenstraum to distract from
problems at home..