HIST 2125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dogger Bank Incident, Louis Barthou, Fashoda Incident
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1904, dogger bank incident: russian fleet fired on british shipping boats thinking they were japans, Russians backed down and agreed to british terms war obverted. Hitler foreign policy initial response was quite good. Germany"s enemies, same as versailles called for a policy of land acquisition, but not in colonies only in eu: acquire land that increases the area of the motherland. Austria turn to the east: russia, poland, ukraine unless other powers submitted to this policy, war would be inevitable to expand. Germany needed better allies, he hated alliance with austria-hungary. Italy was a good ally: h. admired mussolini. British would be most valuable ally of all: he was down to renounce colonies, sea power, economic challenge to bring uk to his side and separate them from french. Foreign policy preferred bilateral agreements: easier to break than multilateral began to rearm secretly signed a non-aggressive agreement with poland why did poland do it? they had a defensive alliance with france.
