Czechoslovakia.
Sudetenland was the western border of Czechoslovakia where nearly 3 million people spoke German. Sudetenland was later given to Germany by Great Britain due to the signing of the Munich Agreement by Daladier and Neville Chamberlain on September 30, 1938 to avoid war.
Although it was part of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland was populated by ethnic Germans.
Hitler believed that there was a vast majority of Sudeten Germans in the Sudeten Land, and that by taking over it he was only complying with Wilson's idea of self-determination. He also thought that if in a later war he were to be attacked by the Russians that it would act as a first line of defence. Also by taking over Czechoslovakia he would be that one step closer to Poland and his policy of expanding East.
The Sudetenland
The Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was an area in western Czechoslovakia (as it was then) which was German speaking and had some sympathy with German nationalism
He was given permission to take the Sudetenland, part of Austria.
The western border of Czechoslovakia was an area known as Sudetenland.
Ethnic and German speaking people who live in Sudetenland which is located currently in the western part of the Czech Republic.
Hitler claimed that Sudetenland rightfully belonged to Germany because there were a lot of German people living there. Sudetenland was once a part of Austria; after World War I, it became a part of the new country of Czechoslovakia (which eventually split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993).
The Sudetenland
The western border of Czechoslovakia was an area known as the Sudetenland.
The western border of Czechoslovakia was an area known as the Sudetenland.
Bohemia, or the Sudetenland.
Austria and the Sudetenland
Libya was the most western.
Spelling! Sudetenland. The Sudetenland was part of Germany until 1806 and of the German Confederation between 1815 and 1866. After WWI and under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles the Sudetenland (some 11,000 square miles) became part of Czechoslovakia. As this was a German-speaking area, Hitler naturally claimed it for the Third Reich. The German annexation of the Sudetenland was what was agreed to at Munich in 1938. What Chamberlain and the Allies should have noticed was that the Sudetenland included nearly all Czechoslovakia's defensive works on the German border. Once it was occupied, the taking of the remainder of the country was a mere formality.