2. Topics
➢ Keys
➢ Czech fears
➢ Hitler’s Threats
➢ Preparations for war
➢ Crisis Talks
➢ The Munich Agreement
➢ Consequences of the Munich Agreement
➢ The end of Appeasement
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3. Keys:
➔ Edvard Beneš: Czechoslovakia’s leader
➔ Chamberlain: Prime minister of Britain
➔ Henlein: Leader of the Nazis in the Sudetenland
➔ Mussolini: Leader of Italy
➔ Czechoslovakia: Mandate created by the League of Nations (in the Treaty of
Versailles) between Germany, Austria, Hungary and Poland.
➔ Sudetenland: Area in Czechoslovakia that contained industries, forts, railways
and Sudeten Germans because it had belonged to Germany before WW1.
➔ Munich Agreement: The final meeting in which they decided the fate of
Czechoslovakia and signed an agreement.
➔ Anschluss: union of Germany and Austria as allies.
➔ Appeasement: British policy, mostly associated with Neville Chamberlain, prime
minister of Great Britain.
4. Germany Czechoslovakia
➔ Czechoslovakia:
Mandate created
by the League of
Nations (in the
Treaty of
Versailles)
between
Germany, Austria,
Hungary and
Poland.
➔ Sudetenland:
Area in
Czechoslovakia
that contained
industries, forts,
railways and
Sudeten Germans
because it had
belonged to
Germany before
WW1.
5. Czech fears
★ Benes feared anschluss
→ realised → C next country to take over
★ B and F weren’t prepared to fight.
↓
they accepted helping Czechoslovakia
★ Chamberlain asked Hitler if he was going to attack
➔ Anschluss:
political union
between Germany
and Austria
➔ Edvard Beneš:
Czechoslovakia’s
leader
➔ Chamberlain:
Prime minister of
Britain
6. “I give you my word of honour
that Czechoslovakia has
nothing to fear from the
Reich”
- Hitler
7. Hitler’s Threats
★ Hitler had plans on attacking Czechoslovakia
★ German population demanded to be part of Germany
★ 1938 → “ready to fight for it”
★ German army wasn’t ready
★ Europe war alert
➔ Czechoslovakia:
Mandate created by the
League of Nations (in
the Treaty of Versailles)
between Germany,
Austria, Hungary and
Poland.
8. Preparations for war
★ Czechoslovakia wouldn’t be easy to take because they had...
○ B, F and R’s support.
○ a modern army
○ Sudetenland
★ Without Sudetenland → defenseless
★ Tension in Europe grew.
➔ Sudetenland:
Area in
Czechoslovakia
that contained
industries, forts,
railways and
Sudeten
Germans
because it had
belonged to
Germany before
WW1.
9. Crisis Talks
★ 15 September → Chamberlain met Hitler.
★ Hitler interested in Sudetenland → plebiscite
★ Chamberlain accepted
★ Hitler would be satisfied
★ 22nd of September → Hitler regretted the previous
terms → All the Sudetenland.
★ Germans mistreated
★ Chamberlain refused.
★ Tension
➔ Chamberlain:
Prime minister of
Britain
➔ Sudetenland:
Area in
Czechoslovakia
that contained
industries, forts,
railways and
Sudeten
Germans
because it had
belonged to
Germany before
WW1.
10. The Munich Agreement
★ 29 of September
★ B, G, F and I gave Hitler Sudetenland
★ without consulting the Czechs, or the USSR.
★ “Peace for our time”
★ Consequences:
○ triumph
○ october 1st → Troops marched to the Sudetenland.
○ Hungary and Poland conquered Czech
○ Benes resigned
○ war was prevented
○ Appeasement would stop Hitler
○ “It simply delayed a war, rather than preventing it”
➔ Munich Agreement:
The final meeting in
which they decided the
fate of Czechoslovakia.
➔ Edvard Beneš:
Czechoslovakia’s
leader
13. The end of Appeasement
● October 1938 → Hitler said he had
no territorial ambitions in Europe
● March 1939 → Germany invaded
Czechoslovakia
● No resistance
● Hitler could not be trusted
● Britain and France would declare war
on Germany
● Policy of Appeasement was ended
