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      • Václav Havel, who had served as the first president of Czechoslovakia after the overthrow of the communists, was elected president of the republic in January 1993, and Václav Klaus became prime minister.
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  2. 4 days ago · The Munich Agreement was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived.

  3. May 26, 2024 · Introduction. In 1938, Europe found itself on the brink of war as Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, set its sights on the annexation of Czechoslovakia, particularly the Sudetenland region.

  4. May 25, 2024 · The crisis centered on the Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia containing a substantial ethnic German population, which Hitler sought to annex into Nazi Germany. The resulting Munich Agreement, reached without Czechoslovak input, ceded the territory to Germany in a misguided attempt to satiate Hitler‘s demands and preserve peace.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Adolf_HitlerAdolf Hitler - Wikipedia

    3 days ago · Upon Hindenburg's death on 2 August 1934, Hitler succeeded him, becoming simultaneously the head of state and government with absolute power. Domestically, Hitler implemented numerous racist policies and sought to deport or kill German Jews.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nazi_GermanyNazi Germany - Wikipedia

    2 days ago · Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, is a term used to describe the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

  7. 2 days ago · Konrad Henlein, leader of the German minority in Czechoslovakia, was instructed to agitate for impossible demands on the part of the Sudetenland Germans, thereby enabling Hitler to move ahead on the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia.

  8. 2 days ago · In January 1997 Germany and the Czech Republic signed a document of reconciliation in which Germany acknowledged regret for its treatment of Czechs during the Nazi era, and the Czech Republic expressed remorse for Czechoslovakia’s expulsion of some three million Germans from the Sudeten region following World War II. Relations between ...

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