HIST1007 Chapter Notes -Clement Martyn Doke, Appeasement, Munich Agreement
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Edward benes was born in the rakovnik district of kozlany in bohemia1 and was the last of ten children2. He studied at the universities of prague, dijon and paris and got a phd in sociology. He was the foreign minister of czechoslovakia from 1918-1935 under the provisional government of his mentor, tomas masaryk. During wwi, he advocated for an independent czechoslovakia. Marxism but had believed in socialist ideas such as weakening the bourgeois. Wwi, he was a major diplomat at the peace of paris and locarno, and was also a representative of czechoslovakia at the league of nations. At the munich conference of 1938, germany had acquired the. Sudetenland from czechoslovakia, and due to external pressure, benes resigned as president and left czechoslovakia. After wwii, he assumed a second presidency but was replaced by communists and forced to resign in 1938 by the soviets, and later that year he passed away.
