Sudetenland
Czech Germanic region
Sudetenland refers to the border regions of Czechoslovakia inhabited primarily by ethnic Germans before World War II.
Nazi Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, following the Munich Agreement, became synonymous with the failure of appeasement policy.
The term now evokes diplomatic capitulation to aggression: Critics called it another Sudetenland moment.
Former Central European republic
- borderlandsTerritory near a boundary
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- MunichBavaria's largest city
- HitlerNazi Germany's totalitarian leader
Germans · Bohemia · Moravia · ethnic · frontier · Reich · occupation · partition
1938 Czechoslovakia partition treaty
- ChamberlainManager of household affairs
- HitlerNazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- concessionYielding a point
- peaceFreedom from disturbance
negotiation · ultimatum · capitulation · diplomacy · betrayal · sacrifice · weakness · naivety
Smaller part of whole
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- grievancesFelt wrongs or injustices
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
expulsion · transfer · refugees · repatriation · displacement · diaspora · identity · assimilation
Decisive dangerous moment
- aggressionHostile or attacking behavior
- expansionIncrease in scope
- LebensraumFascist territorial expansion doctrine
- pretextFabricated motive concealing truth
provocation · mobilization · ultimatum · tension · brinkmanship · escalation · Wehrmacht · propaganda
Forced permanent removal
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- PotsdamBrandenburg state capital
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
reconciliation · memory · trauma · restitution · commemoration · archives · survivors · testimonies
Czechoslovakia
Former Central European republic
- borderlandsTerritory near a boundary
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- MunichBavaria's largest city
Hitler · Germans · Bohemia · Moravia · ethnic · frontier · Reich · occupation · partition · cession
Munich Agreement
1938 Czechoslovakia partition treaty
- ChamberlainManager of household affairs
- HitlerNazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- concessionYielding a point
peace · negotiation · ultimatum · capitulation · diplomacy · betrayal · sacrifice · weakness · naivety · compromise
minority
Smaller part of whole
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- grievancesFelt wrongs or injustices
persecution · expulsion · transfer · refugees · repatriation · displacement · diaspora · identity · assimilation · tensions
crisis
Decisive dangerous moment
- aggressionHostile or attacking behavior
- expansionIncrease in scope
- LebensraumFascist territorial expansion doctrine
pretext · provocation · mobilization · ultimatum · tension · brinkmanship · escalation · Wehrmacht · propaganda · intimidation
expulsion
Forced permanent removal
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- PotsdamBrandenburg state capital
reparations · reconciliation · memory · trauma · restitution · commemoration · archives · survivors · testimonies · documentation
- World War IIAllies, Nazi, Hitler, Axis, Third Reich
- Axis-Occupied LandsPoland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway
- Border Conflictsborder skirmish, disputed territory, territorial claim, Gaza Strip, West Bank
- CzechiaPrague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Moravia
- CzechoslovakiaPrague, Bratislava, Bohemia, Slovakia, Moravia
- Lost TerritoriesAlsace-Lorraine, Prussia, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany