neutrality act
The line had been drawn in the sand after the Sudentenland. France and the UK had said no to Germany about Poland. Germany crossed the line and WW-II was started in Europe.
Most people in the Sudetenland did not support Nazi Germany's annexation of the region; they simply were not consulted. The minority who did were primarily ethnic Germans who saw the annexation as a further union of German states to Germany. This is the same reason why the majority of Austrians supported Anschluss in 1938.
many Germans lived in this area.
appeasement
Germany took over Sudentenland on September 7th, 1938 peacefully after the German Sudeten Party demanded union with Germany. The Czechs were persuaded to hand over Sudentenland.
It was before WW2, in September/October 1938.
1938
The Munich Agreement was signed by Chamberlain (Britain), Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy) and Daladier (France) sto hand the Sudetenland over to Nazi Germany.
neutrality act
The Munich Agreement in effect tranferred the Sudentenland from Czechoslovakia to Germany.
Turned Czechoslovakia, at the time called Sudetenland, over to Germany.
The line had been drawn in the sand after the Sudentenland. France and the UK had said no to Germany about Poland. Germany crossed the line and WW-II was started in Europe.
the Germans were allowed to occupy Sudentenland
Most people in the Sudetenland did not support Nazi Germany's annexation of the region; they simply were not consulted. The minority who did were primarily ethnic Germans who saw the annexation as a further union of German states to Germany. This is the same reason why the majority of Austrians supported Anschluss in 1938.
* March 1938: Austria * October 1938: Sudentenland (Czechoslovakia) * March 1939: the rest of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia) * March 1939: Memel district of Lithuania * September 1939 (in World War 2): over half of Poland, with the rest taken by the Soviet Union
many Germans lived in this area.