Saturday, April 11, 2015

Countries that Annexed the Territories of the Neighbors in Europe in the Advent of World War Two













Sequence of events following the Munich Agreement: 


  • October 1938: Germany occupies the Sudetenland, a majority ethnic German part of Czechoslovakia.   

  • October 1938: Poland annexes Czechoslovakia’s Zaolzie region, an area the two countries fought a war over in 1919.  



  • November 1938: In accordance with the First Vienna Accord, Hungary occupies areas of Eastern and South-Eastern Czechoslovakia (the southern third of Slovakia and the southern Carpathian Ruthenia region.) where ethnic Hungarians were a majority. This was in accordance with the First Vienna Accord of November 1938).  



  • On March 15, 1939, during the German invasion of the remaining Czech territories, Hungary annexes Carpathian Ruthenia (which had been autonomous since October 1938.



  • March 16, 1939: Germany invades the rest of Czechoslovakia and establishes the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the Western half of the country, and places a puppet government at its head.  
  • In the eastern half of what is left of Czechoslovakia, a pro-Hitler Fascist declares the Slovak Republic, pledging his allegiance as an Axis client state.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando is the author of THE UNION MOUJIK




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