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Treaty between France and Czechoslovakia
France said that would gave Czechoslovakia military help if it was attacked by Germany. -
Hitler defied the Treaty of Versallies
Hitler took considerable risks in moving into the Rhinelands. He ordered the Germans troops to march into the Rhineland. There was a good chance that France would send troops to resist the Germans forces and this would mean war. The German army was not ready for war. No one in Germany knew how the French woud react. The first troops into the Rhinelands were ordered to retreat if they met with French resistance. -
Invasion of the Rhineland
Two years later he broke the Treaty again by uniting Germany with Austria. -
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The Road to Ww II
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Schuschnigg
The Austrian leader, schuschnigg visited Hitler to talk about the crisis in German. He was badly treated at the meeting. -
The Plebiscite
The Germany army invaded Austria. Arrests began inmediatley of enemies of the Nazis. -
Anschluss.
Austria was in a state of crisis. Was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. -
Munich and the destruction of Czechoslovakia
The peace treaties at the end of the First World War had created a new country called Czechoslovakia. Britain and France signed the Munich Agreement that broke up Czechoslovakia and gave much of it to Germany. -
Government of Daladier
There was a change of government in France.The new prime minister Daladier, was not keen on the idea of going to was with Germany over Czechoslovakia. -
Hitler prepares to act.
Hitler let his generals know that he had decided to smash Czechoslovakia by military action in the near future. -
Henlein
Henlein leaves Czechoslovakia. -
Chamberlain files to Germany
Hitler did not want a peaceful settlement. He wanted to destroy Czechoslovakia by force. He was annoyed when Chamberlain came to see him for a second time at Bad Godesberg with news that Britain, France and Czechoslovakia had agreed to his proposals. So Hitler made new demands: *the German take-over should be imediate *that there should be votes on wheter to stay in Czechoslovakia in additional areas *that the claims of Hungary and Poland to other parts of Czechoslovakia needed consideration -
War?
Chamberlain tried once again to get Hitler to find a peaceful solution. He sent Sir Horace Wilson to talk to Hitler on 26 and 27 September. Hitler was not in a ood for negotiation. He told Wilson several times that he was going to 'smash the Czechs' -
Munich Agreement
The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia -
The Munich crisis
Henlein ordered local Nazis to attack Czech and jewish targets. As a result of this violence, negosiations between the Sudeten Germans and prague were broken off.
