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Czechoslovakia had a large and

         With Austria secured,                        modern army backed with a sizable                                    Despite this, Hitler,
            Hitler turned his                              armament industry, and had                                 encouraged by reluctance
      attention to the German-                        military alliances with France and                              of major European powers
        speaking population of                             the Soviet Union. It also had                             to stop his violation of post

          Sudetenland border                             informal links with the United                                World War I treaties, was
     regions of Czechoslovakia                        Kingdom, largely due to the United
                                                    Kingdom being militarily allied with                                  prepared to risk war.
                                                                           France.











                                                                                                                                Following lengthy negotiations

                     German forces                                When the French and British                                    and blatant war threats from
                                                                    negotiators informed the                                     Hitler, British Prime Minister
                       entered the
                                                                Czechoslovak representatives                                   Neville Chamberlain with French
                       Sudetenland                            about the agreement, and that if                                  leaders tried to appease Hitler.

                        unopposed,                            Czechoslovakia would not accept                                    In the Munich Agreement of 30

                     celebrated by                                it, France and Britain would                                      September 1938, the major
                                                                 consider Czechoslovakia to be                                 European powers allowed German
                          the local                                     responsible for war,                                            troops to occupy the

                     ethnic German                                        President Edvard                                        Sudetenland, for the sake of

                        population                                       Beneš capitulated.                                              "peace for our time".
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