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The little road to World War II
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Plot by Austrian Nazis
It was discovered by the Austrian autorithies that there was a plot by AN to create chaos in Austria by killing the German ambassador -
Schuschnigg visited Hitler
As Austria was in crisis, the Austrian leader visited Hitler for crisis talks in Germany. He was badly treated. Hitler demanded that Nazis be allowed to join the Austrian goverment, so he feel he had no option and he agreed to Hitler´s plan -
The plebiscite
Schuschnigg made an attempt to keep Austria independent. Hitler was feared that him would win the plebiscite. -
German army invaded Austria
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Hitler crossed into Austria
he went to his own home town of linz -
Hitler met Henlein
he told the Sudeten leader to keep making demands that the czechoslovakia goverment could not possibly accept -
Change of goverment in France
The new prime minister Daladier, was not keen on the idea of going to war with Germany over Czechoslovakia. -
Plans of smashing Czechoslovakia
Hitler let his generals know that he had decided to smash Czech by military action in the near future. -
The British goverment send Lord Runsiman
They sent this politician to Czechoslovakia to try to work out a settlement between the two sides. He was biased in favor of the sudeten germans. -
Tension rose
Henlein ordered local nazis to attack Czech and jewish targets. Negociations between SG and Prague were broken -
Henlein left Czech
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Chamberlain met Hitler
Hitler complained about the SG treatment, Chamberlain agreed that Sudetenland should be annexed by Germany. -
Daladier and Bonnet came to London
The French leaders agreed to support the partition of Czech in return for a British promise to defend Czechoslovakia state. -
Bennes over the Sudetenland
The Czech president was told that he must hand over the Sudetenland, at first he was unhappy and refused to cooperate. -
Benes agreed to take over Sudetrenland
He realised that he was powerless without allied support, so he agreed. -
Second time that Chamberlain met Hitler.
Chamberlain came to see Hitler, with the news thar Britain, France and Czech agreed to his proposal, as he wanted to destroy Czechoslovakia, he refused to accept this deal and made a new one. -
Horace Wilson talk to Hitler
Chamberlain tried once more and send Horace Wilson to talk to Hitler and as him was not in a mood told Wilson that his plans was to smash the Czechs. This wasn´t a good new to Chamberlain as he wanted a peaceful solution. -
Letter to Chamberlain
He receibed a letter that said that Hitler agreed to a Conference at Munich for trying to find a peaceful solution to the crisis of Czechoslovakia -
Conference at Munich
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The annexation of the Sudetenland
British and French Prime ministers agreed with Hitler on the terms of annexation of the Sudetenland. Czech was not represented at the conference, although the conference did not involve any real negociation, they only agreed to give Hitler what he wanted -
Benes exile
The German troops marched unopposed into the Sudetenland, the Czech president was forced to go into Exile.