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The Sudetenland (/ s uː ˈ d eɪ t ən l æ n d / ⓘ soo-DAY-tən-land, German: [zuˈdeːtn̩ˌlant]; Czech and Slovak: Sudety) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans.
Sudetenland, sections of northern and western Bohemia and northern Moravia (modern Czech Republic). The Sudetenland became a major source of contention between Germany and Czechoslovakia, and in 1938 participants at the Munich Conference, yielding to Adolf Hitler, transferred it to Germany.
The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia.
4 dni temu · Poland - Sudetenland, WWII, Nazis: The Sudeten and their foreland, part of the larger Bohemian Massif, have a long and complex geologic history. They owe their present rugged form, however, to earth movements that accompanied the Carpathian uplift, and the highest portion, the Karkonosze (“Giant Mountains”), reaches 5,256 feet (1,602 metres ...
The northern part of Czechoslovakia was known as the Sudetenland. The Sudetenland was desired by Germany not only for its territory, but also because a majority of its population were ‘ethnically’ German. In the summer of 1938 Hitler demanded the annexation of the Sudetenland into Germany.
1 mar 2023 · The Sudeten Crisis was a key event in the lead-up to World War Two, when Hitler demanded and got the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia after threatening war. The Munich Agreement, which excluded the Czechs and the USSR, paved the way for Nazi expansion and Stalin's alliance with Hitler.
25 maj 2024 · The Sudetenland crisis of 1938 stands as a pivotal moment on the road to World War II, representing the apex of Western appeasement of Adolf Hitler‘s aggressive expansionism. The crisis centered on the Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia containing a substantial ethnic German population, which Hitler sought to annex into Nazi Germany.
