Sudetenland

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Sudetenland was a predominantly German-speaking border region of Czechoslovakia that Nazi Germany annexed in 1938 following the Munich Agreement, becoming a key prelude to World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf border region
historical region
annexationDate 1938
annexationEvent Munich Agreement
annexationMethod international agreement
threat of force
annexedBy Nazi Germany
borderedBy Austria
Germany
Poland
borderFeature Sudetes mountains
surface form: Sudetes mountain range
claimedBy Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
considered key prelude to World War II
country Czechoslovakia
currentCountry Czech Republic
ethnicMajority ethnic Germans
excludedPartyFromAgreement Czechoslovakia
governedBy Czechoslovakia
Germany
historicalPopulationGroup Sudeten Germans
keyAgreementInvolving Munich Agreement
languageMajority German
locatedIn Bohemia
Central Europe
Austrian Silesia
surface form: Czech Silesia

Moravia
MunichAgreementSignatory France
Germany
Italy
United Kingdom
nameOrigin Sudetes mountains
partOf First Czechoslovak Republic
politicalIssueOf appeasement policy
interwar Europe
postwarPolicy expulsion of ethnic Germans
postwarStatus integrated into Czechoslovakia
preWWIRegion Austrian Silesia
Austrian crown lands of Bohemia
Moravia
preWWIStatus part of Austria-Hungary
returnDate 1945
returnedTo Czechoslovakia
strategicImportance fortifications of Czechoslovakia
industrial resources
timeUnderCzechoslovakia 1918–1938
timeUnderGermany 1938–1945
usedAsPretextFor German military intervention

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