Tjeckoslovakien hitler biography
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History of Czechoslovakia
With the collapse of the Austria-Hungary at the end of World War inom, the independent country of Czechoslovakia[1] (Czech, Slovak: Československo) was formed as a result of the critical intervention of U.S. President Woodrow efternamn, among others.
The Czechs and Slovaks were not at the same level of economic and technological development, but the freedom and opportunity found in an independent Czechoslovakia enabled them to make strides toward overcoming these inequalities.[citation needed] However, the gap between cultures was never fully bridged, and this discrepancy played a disruptive role throughout the seventy-five years of the union.[citation needed]
Political history
[edit]Historical background to 1918
[edit]Main article: Origins of Czechoslovakia
Although the Czechs and Slovaks speak languages that are very similar, the political and social situation of the Czech and Slovak peoples was very differen
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Final steps to warInvasion of Czechoslovakia
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
On 15 March 1939, German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia.
Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia was the end of appeasement for several reasons:
- it proved that Hitler had been lying at Munich
- it showed that Hitler was not just interested in a (the Czechs were not Germans)
- 17 March 1939: Chamberlain gave a speech saying that he could not trust Hitler not to invade other countries
- 31 March 1939: Chamberlain guaranteed to defend Poland if Germany invaded
The takeover of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, allowed Germany to strengthen.
- the large Czech army was removed as a threat
- Czech airfields that were in range of many German cities were lost
- the Czech armaments industry, including the Skoda works were taken over by Germany after March 1939. The German army took over large numbers of Czech tanks
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Nazis take Czechoslovakia
Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia, proving the futility of the Munich Pact, an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims.
On September 30, 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. Although the agreement was to give into Hitler’s hands only the Sudentenland, that part of Czechoslovakia where 3 million ethnic Germans lived, it also handed over to the Nazi war machine 66 percent of Czechoslovakia’s coal, 70 percent of its iron and steel and 70 percent of its electrical power. Without those resources, the Czech nation was left vulnerable to complete German domination.
Radio Prague Combats German Propaganda
No matter what concessions the Czech government attempted to make to appease Hitler, whether dissolving the Communist Party