Definitions for "Sudetenland"
Formerly Austrian German-speaking territories in Bohemia which were incorporated into Czechoslovakia after World War I.
Land predominantly populated by German-speakers that belonged to Czechoslovakia until Hitler annexed it.
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.