HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Munich Agreement, Baltic States, Dollar Diplomacy
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President of czechoslovakia resigned over the munich agreement. Winston churchill was completely opposed disaster of the 1st magnitude . France, russia had a treaty with czechoslovakia. Mussolini claimed several territories, nice, savoy, tunisia. At one point germany began agitating the slovaks. Hitler ordered him to come to berlin. Bombarded him a lecture, you have to come under a german protectorate . German troops on 16th of march crossed into czechoslovakia and took over the city of prague. Britain and france pledged their assistance to poland. Britain and france also pledged support for turkey, fearing a russian intervention in turkey. Britain and france were hoping that russia would join them with hitler, but hitler got to them before the molotov-ribbentrop pact. The baltic states: lithuania, estonia and latvia were also permitted by germany for russia to annex them once again. Germany attacked poland on sept 1 1939, russia moved troops in as part of the agreement.