The agreement, which allowed Hitler to annex the part of Czechoslovakia known as the Sudetenland, has been branded a “betrayal.” Hitler then proceeded to invade the rest of the country in 1939.

The British public celebrated their relief that war had been, for the present, avoided. However, there was growing concern that Hitler was not, as Chamberlain believed, just another politician who ...

Alexander Dubcek, the reformist First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, was arrested the following morning and taken to Moscow. During the tense week that followed, citizens of ...

The impact of the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 brought an end to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy. Chamberlain offered to help Poland if it was attacked by Germany ...

Michal Kudelka, the head of the Czech Republic's Information and Security Service, has stated that the current security situation in Europe and the world is the most threatening since the Second ...