Hitler had achieved power and control over Germany in 1933 and by 1935, he had secured the Nazis power base. Foreign policy, as goring said in his trial in 1945 was Hitler's very own realm. All foreign policy decisions and initiatives were that of Hitler himself. Hitler's aim was to restore Germany to a powerful nation as it once was. His foreign policy was racial & national and intended to deliberately expand Germany at the expense of …showed first 75 words of 523 total…

…showed last 75 words of 523 total…was introduced in the same year, which sought to make Germany's economy self-sufficient in preparation for war. When Italy invaded Abyssinia in 1935, the League of Nations tried to solve the problem by imposing sanctions on Italy. This only drove the Italians closer to Germany. In the 1936 Spanish Civil War, both Italy and Germany sent forces to aid General Franco. The bond between the two countries grew stronger and October of 1936, Mussolini announced the Rome-Berlin axis.