final acts of appeasement
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- Ethnic German area of Czechoslovakia where 3.5 mil. Germans lived.
- Br. P.M. Neville Chamberlain wants Czech leader, Benes to give up the Sudentenland
- Hopes to prevent war
- Hitler threatens to occupy
- Mussolini steps in with a four power conference in Munich
- Benes resigns in favour of Emil Hacha who agrees to the annexation
- Neville Chamberlain proclaims “Peace in our Time”
- Hitler still recognized Slovak state - moved in German troops to “protect” it
- Hacha visits Hitler in March 1939 –gives up Czech independence
Summary: The final acts that led to World War II included the breaking of the Treaty of Versailles, when Germany joines Austria, and March on Poland.
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