Sudeten Crisis and Munich Agreement

Background?

• Sudetenland: western part of Czechoslovakia with 3 million German speakers

Events?

• Hitler wanted it and used Sudeten Germans as the excuse.
• Hitler encouraged Henlein( leader of the Nazis in the Sudetenland) to campaign for independance under the pretence of ill treatment and riots broke out.
• Chamberlain was determined to use appeasment.
• 15th September 1938, Chamberlain flew to Germany.
• Berchtesgaden. Hitler wanted all German speaking parts of Sudetenland after plebiscites.
• Britain got…