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THE SUDETEN CRISIS, SEPTEMBER 1938

THE SUDETEN CRISIS, SEPTEMBER 1938. May 1935: Konrad Henlein’s Sudeten German “Home Front” wins majority of votes in the Czech Sudetenland. November 1937: Neville Chamberlain sends Lord Halifax to Hitler. March 1938: German Anschluss with Austria.

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THE SUDETEN CRISIS, SEPTEMBER 1938

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  1. THE SUDETEN CRISIS, SEPTEMBER 1938 • May 1935: Konrad Henlein’s Sudeten German “Home Front” wins majority of votes in the Czech Sudetenland. • November 1937: Neville Chamberlain sends Lord Halifax to Hitler. • March 1938: German Anschluss with Austria. • May 1938: War scare caused by false rumors. • August 1938: Runciman Mission studies Sudeten German grievances. • September 15, 1938: Chamberlain in Berchtesgaden, agrees with Hitler on a plebiscite for the Sudeteland. • September 22/23, 1938: Chamberlain in Bad Godesberg; Hitler ups his demands. • September 29/30, 1938: Mussolini offers a “compromise” at the Munich Conference.

  2. David Lloyd George andCharles Lindbergh both expressed great admiration for Germany during visits in 1936

  3. The Berlin Olympics, 1936:Here German athletes who have won the gold & bronze in gymnastics salute their Führer.

  4. When Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister in 1937, he believed that the Versailles Conference had committed injustice by applying national self-determination where it harmed Germany, but NOT in Austria, Danzig, or the Sudetenland

  5. Chamberlain’s confidant, Viscount Halifax, meets privately with Hitler, November 1937 Danzig street scene 1937

  6. Soon thereafter Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg sought to forestall Anschluss by proposing a referendum.

  7. Hitler greeted by cheering throngs as he enters Vienna on March 14, 1938,and a poster urging voters to approve the Anschluss Now Mussolini made no attempt to oppose this expansion of Germany

  8. A cordial Hitler welcomes Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, September 15, 1938

  9. German map of the ethnic composition of Czechoslovakia (1938):Hitler and Chamberlain agreed in principle that the League should conduct a referendum in the gray zone

  10. At Bad Godesberg on September 22, Hitler demanded the immediate German occupation of all disputed territory, and Chamberlain refused.

  11. The heads of government in Munich, 29 September 1938:Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Hitler, & Mussolini

  12. Neville Chamberlain announces to a cheering British crowd that he has brought them “peace in our time.”

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