WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Germany invaded the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia on 15 March 1939. Unlike with the Sudetenland, these provinces were not incorporated directly into the German Reich. They instead became known as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and were placed under Nazi rule.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Sudetenland, which had a predominately German population, was incorporated into Czechoslovakia when that new nation’s frontiers were drawn in 1918–19.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 30 September 1938, Germany, Britain, France and Italy reached a settlement that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most of the German-speaking Czechs lived in a western part of the country called the Sudetenland, which bordered Germany. (The map below shows the location of the Sudetenland and illustrates Germany’s expansion before World War II.)

Detailed explanation-5: -Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 1992. On December 31, 1992, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic ceased to exist and was succeeded by two new states: the Czech Republic and Slovakia.