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  'Liberals of European states were not democratic'. Justify the statement by giving three examples. Or Describe Hitler's foreign policy before the Second World War.

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  Although the liberals argued for a repre-sentative, elected parliamentary government, but they were not 'democrats' because (i) they did not believe in universal adult franchise, i.e, the right of every citizen to vote. (ii) they felt men of property mainly should have the right to vote. (iii) they were not in favour of women suffrage.                                                                                                               (3) Or In foreign policy, Adolf Hitler took quick and successful steps as follows (i) He pulled Germany out of the League of Nations in 1933. (ii) He integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan 'one people, one empire and one leader'. (iii) He then captured German-speaking Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and later the entire country. (iv) Hitler got unspoken support of England, which had considered the Versailles Treaty as too harsh. (v) These quick successes at home and abroad helped to reverse the destiny of the country.                      (3)