<P> Following the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi Germany , in March 1938 , the conquest of Czechoslovakia became Hitler 's next ambition . The incorporation of the Sudetenland into Germany that began on 1 October 1938 left the rest of Czechoslovakia weak , and it became powerless to resist subsequent occupation . Part of the borderland region known as Zaolzie was occupied and subsequently returned to Poland after Czechoslovakia previously annexed it from Poland prior during the Polish - Soviet War . On 15 March 1939 , the German Wehrmacht moved into the remainder of Czechoslovakia and , from Prague Castle , Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . The occupation ended with the surrender of Germany following World War II . </P>
<P> Following the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi Germany , in March 1938 , the conquest of Czechoslovakia became Hitler 's next ambition . The incorporation of the Sudetenland into Germany that began on 1 October 1938 left the rest of Czechoslovakia weak , and it became powerless to resist subsequent occupation . Part of the borderland region known as Zaolzie was occupied and subsequently returned to Poland after Czechoslovakia previously annexed it from Poland prior during the Polish - Soviet War . On 15 March 1939 , the German Wehrmacht moved into the remainder of Czechoslovakia and , from Prague Castle , Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . The occupation ended with the surrender of Germany following World War II . </P>
in 1938 germany took control of austria in what was known as the
in 1938 germany took control of austria in what was known as the
Anschluss
Anschluss