Sudetenland

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border region historical region

Sudetenland was a predominantly German-speaking border region of Czechoslovakia that Nazi Germany annexed in 1938 following the Munich Agreement, becoming a key prelude to World War II.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	border region → historical region →
annexationDate	1938 →
annexationEvent	Munich Agreement →
annexationMethod	international agreement → threat of force →
annexedBy	Nazi Germany →
borderedBy	Austria → Germany → Poland →
borderFeature	Sudetes mountain range →
claimedBy	Adolf Hitler → Nazi Party →
considered	key prelude to World War II →
country	Czechoslovakia →
currentCountry	Czech Republic →
ethnicMajority	ethnic Germans →
excludedPartyFromAgreement	Czechoslovakia →
governedBy	Czechoslovakia → Germany →
historicalPopulationGroup	Sudeten Germans →
keyAgreementInvolving	Munich Agreement →
languageMajority	German →
locatedIn	Bohemia → Central Europe → Czech Silesia → Moravia →
MunichAgreementSignatory	France → Germany → Italy → United Kingdom →
nameOrigin	Sudetes mountains →
partOf	First Czechoslovak Republic →
politicalIssueOf	appeasement policy → interwar Europe →
postwarPolicy	expulsion of ethnic Germans →
postwarStatus	integrated into Czechoslovakia →
preWWIRegion	Austrian Silesia → Austrian crown lands of Bohemia → Moravia →
preWWIStatus	part of Austria-Hungary →
returnDate	1945 →
returnedTo	Czechoslovakia →
strategicImportance	fortifications of Czechoslovakia → industrial resources →
timeUnderCzechoslovakia	1918–1938 →
timeUnderGermany	1938–1945 →
usedAsPretextFor	German military intervention →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aryanization of Jewish property →	geographicallyExtendedTo
Sudeten Germans →	historicalRegion
German-occupied Europe →	includesTerritory
Munich Agreement →	involvedRegion
Munich Agreement →	permittedAnnexationOf