Eduard Benes12 August 1938
Hitler commences mobilization
Czech Republic · Government / Government of Czech Rep. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Hitler commences mobilization
German troops march into the Sudetenland, the promised plebiscite is never held. Czech loses 11,000 square miles of territory
Czechoslovakia, complying with Nazi policy, outlaws the Communist Party and begins persecuting Jews
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