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  2. Sudetenland - Wikipedia

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    The native German-speaking regions in 1930, within the borders of the current Czech Republic, which in the interwar period were referred to as the Sudetenland. The Sudetenland (/ s uː ˈ d eɪ t ən l æ n d / ⓘ soo-DAY-tən-land, German: [zuˈdeːtn̩ˌlant]; Czech and Slovak: Sudety) is a German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were ...

  3. Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia

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    Form of state. 1918–1937: A democratic republic championed by Tomáš Masaryk. [9]1938–1939: After the annexation of Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938, the region gradually turned into a state with loosened connections among the Czech, Slovak, and Ruthenian parts.

  4. A total and unmitigated defeat - Wikipedia

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    The four leaders reached agreement on the 29th and signed the treaty at 01:30 the next day. Czechoslovakia reluctantly accepted the agreement as a fait accompli. It ceded the Sudetenland to Germany on 10 October, and Hitler agreed to take no action against the rest of the country. [citation needed] Later that day, Hitler met Chamberlain privately.

  5. Czechoslovak border fortifications - Wikipedia

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    With the rise of Hitler and his demands for unification of German minorities, including the Sudeten Germans, and the return of other claimed territories—Sudetenland—the alarmed Czechoslovak leadership began defensive plans. While some basic defensive structures were built early on, it was not until after conferences with the French military ...

  6. Category:Sudetenland - Wikipedia

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    Gauliga Sudetenland; Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren; Geheime Feldpolizei; Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic; German South Moravia; Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)

  7. Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) - Wikipedia

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    The incorporation of the Sudetenland into Germany left the rest of Czechoslovakia with a largely indefensible northwestern border. Also a Polish-majority borderland region of Trans-Olza which was annexed by Czechoslovakia in 1919, was occupied and annexed by Poland following the two-decade long territorial dispute.

  8. Godesberg Memorandum - Wikipedia

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    At the time of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Sudetenland was a German-speaking part of the Empire which fell to the new state of Czechoslovakia, itself dominated by the Czechs. Initially, many Sudeten Germans wished to become part of the new German-speaking state of German Austria , and later they hoped to join Austria .

  9. Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938) - Wikipedia

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    The German-speaking population in the interwar Czechoslovak Republic, 23.6% of the population at the 1921 census, [1] usually refers to the Sudeten Germans, although there were other German ethno-linguistic enclaves elsewhere in Czechoslovakia (e.g. Hauerland or Zips) inhabited by Carpathian Germans (including Zipser Germans or Zipser Saxons), and among the German-speaking urban dwellers there ...