This memory aid covers Memory Aid within Hitler's Foreign Policy for GCSE History. Revise Hitler's Foreign Policy in Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 for GCSE History with 8 exam-style questions and 4 flashcards. This is a high-frequency topic, so it is worth revising until the explanation feels precise and repeatable. It is section 10 of 13 in this topic. Use it for quick recall, then test yourself straight afterwards so the memory aid becomes usable in an answer.
Topic position
Section 10 of 13
Practice
8 questions
Recall
4 flashcards
🧠 Memory Aid
Hitler's 3 aims — "VGL":
- Versailles — destroy the treaty (rearm, Rhineland, recover territory)
- Grossdeutschland — unite German-speaking peoples (Anschluss, Sudetenland)
- Lebensraum — living space eastward (Poland, then Russia)
Hitler's steps to war — "RAR-AMC-IP":
- Rearmament 1935
- Anglo-German Naval Agreement 1935
- Rhineland 1936
- Anschluss 1938
- Munich/Sudetenland 1938
- Czechoslovakia (rest of) March 1939
- Invades Poland September 1939
Key dates to lock in: 1933 (left League), 1935 (rearmament), 1936 (Rhineland), 1938 (Anschluss + Munich), March 1939 (rest of Czechoslovakia), September 1939 (Poland — war).