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Formerly Austrian German-speaking territories in Bohemia which were incorporated into Czechoslovakia after World War I.
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Land predominantly populated by German-speakers that belonged to Czechoslovakia until Hitler annexed it.
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Western Czechoslovakia which was given to Germany in 1938 without consulting with the Czech government. England and France, with the help of Italy, negotiated the agreement with Hitler. Within months of this, Hitler had his army move into the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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Mainly German-speaking region that was part of Czechoslovakia between the two world wars. Annexed by Germany in October of 1938.
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An area in Czechoslovakia along the German border. Before World War II populated primarily by Germans. After the war most of the Germans were forcibly resettled in Germany.
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Sudetenland (German; Sudety in Czech and Polish) was the name used in the first half of the 20th century for the regions inhabited mostly by Germans in the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia associated with Bohemia.
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