germany took control of austria and an area of czechoslovakia called the sudetenland.
germany took control of austria and an area of czechoslovakia called the?
the sudetenland
in 1938 germany demanded control of the german-speaking sudetenland region of czechoslovakia. that small country had a defense alliance with france but militarily its position was hopeless. the munich conference of september 29–30, 1938, was a summit meeting of leaders from germany, italy britain and france. the soviet union and czechoslovakia were not invited. the british and french wanted peace—or at least enough delay to allow them to try to catch up to german military superiority. britain did not control french actions, but london had more influence on paris than vice versa. the leading french voice for cooperating with british prime chamberlain in appeasement was foreign minister georges bonnet. he was a "munichois"—that is, a defeatist and pacifist who sensed that france would lose to germany in a war. he wanted to abandon the alliances with poland and russia and allow germany a free hand in the east so it would ignore france. after a short conference hitler got his way—the agreement allowed germany to peacefully absorb the sudetenland. in march, 1939, germany took over bohemia and moravia, and turned slovakia into a puppet state. the british and french finally realized that appeasement did not produce peace.
history of french foreign relations
against saudi arabia, everything went according to plan, with germany winning 8-0. miroslav klose scored a hat-trick against the minnows. carsten jancker scored his first goal after enduring a dry run. it was germany's highest win since the 1978 world cup, where they beat mexico 6-0. in the game against ireland, germany took an early lead, with klose scoring once more but in added time robbie keane equalised for ireland. that meant that if germany could either beat or draw with cameroon in their last group game, would see germany qualify for the second round. at half-time in the game against cameroon, the score was 0-0, but germany had carsten ramelow sent off for a second yellow card offence. it did not look good for germany, who were under pressure from cameroon right from the start of the second hand. substitute marco bode then opened the scoring for germany, assisted by a wonderful pass from klose and made the score 1-0. bode's goal was voted goal of the month for june 2002 by the viewers of sportschau. cameroon, trained by fellow german winfried schäfer, also had a man sent off midway through the second half. from this moment, germany took control and klose made it 2-0 shortly after. germany finished the group top.
germany at the 2002 fifa world cup