Why was Adolf Hitler's foreign policy successful up to the 1938 Anchluss with Austria?

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reason German foreign policy could be considered successful from the date of Adolf Hitler's
appointment as chancellor of Germany to the March 1938 union with Austria was because there was
relatively little to prevent it from carrying out its chosen policies. The 1930s were an
economically turbulent time for much of Europe, as well as for the United States. The Great
Depression was not limited to the United States; on the contrary, much of the world felt its
effects, and many governments were preoccupied with adopting measures intended to lift
themselves out of the depths to which they had descended. In addition, the rise of Nazi Germany
was not occurring in a vacuum. Benito Mussolini was already entrenched as the leader of Fascist
Italy. In the Spanish Civil War, which began in 1936, the Nationalists, a fascist movement led
by Francisco Franco, defeated the Republicans, a group supported by socialist and communist
movements from across Europe (and the United States). Imperial Japan...