Thursday, January 5, 2017
Hitlers Road to Conquering Czechoslovakia
Hitler has always been a fan of war and has never feared war. His actions and steps proved to us that war was of no worry if he was gonna achieve what he wanted. During Hitlers reign he wanted to seize power over Czechoslovakia which would allow him to gain control over Prague and the Czech capital. But as Hitler requested to seize the lands back after loosing it in past war, Churchill denied and Hitler grew more eager for the land, eventually Churchill feared war was upon and signed the nonaggression Act giving Hitler the land. But his was a turning point in all countries now France and Britain made it clear that Germany could not conquer any more of the smaller countries or war would be declared.
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Although you are correct in that Hitler did end up gaining control over Czechoslovakia through aggression, he only gained the Sudetenland with his agreements with Britain as part of the Munich Pact (I think you are referring to the Nonaggression Pact which was between Germany and the USSR as an alliance), and the British politician who made these agreements was the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, not Winston Churchill (he was the country's PM a few years later). Also, the reason Hitler wanted this area was mainly because it was a German speaking region of Czechoslovakia that he wanted to join with the country, just as he did with Austria. I don't think it necessarily had to do with him wanting direct control over Prague and the rest of Czechoslovakia at that particular time, however he did definitely end up having these desires around a year later, since this is when he annexed the rest of the country. Additionally, I definitely agree with your last claim that when Germany took complete control over Czechoslovakia, the British and French were essentially forced to hold the Germans to their word about not continuing to conquer smaller countries or else they would be allowing the Nazis to break more of their agreements unpunished. This is also significant because it shows how the German annexation of Czechoslovakia was very crucial to bringing Europe closer to WW2, since it caused international tensions to grow and made it more difficult for Germany to want to attack Poland.
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