Czechoslovakia, Poland and the end of appeasement

Although the British people welcomed the Munich agreement , they did not trust Hitler. In an opinion poll in October 1938 93 per cent said they did not believe him when he said he had no more territorial ambitions in Europe. In March 1939 they were proved right, on 15 March with Czechoslovakia in chaos, German troops took over the rest of the country.  The image on the right shows German troops entering Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.

Lessons & Resources » Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?

• Political Cartoon Interpretation
• Long-term consequences of the peace treaties
• Hitler's rise and plan
• Hitler's policies
• The foreign policies of Italy and Japan
• The foreign policies of Britain and France (Appeasement)
• German foreign policy
• Anschluss with Austria in 1938
• The remilitarisation of the Rhineland
• The Sudetenland 1938
• The Nazi-Soviet Pact
• The end of appeasement and the outbreak of war