How Did Adolf Hitler Achieved After World War II

The decades following World War I consisted of European leadership averting conflicts that could lead to large-scale war. Accordingly, this concept was easily achieved prior to 1933 due to European leadership in countries of military might striving for peace in Europe. Following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, Germany disregarded the provisions of the Versailles treaty without challenge. Germany re-occupied the Rhineland in 1936 and annexed Austria in the spring of 1938 without confrontation, German then demanded that Czechoslovakia turns over the Sudetenland in the late summer of 1938. The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, engaged Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference in an attempt to de-escalate the situation, which
Beginning in 1936, Hitler initiated his plans for German expansion and forcible superiority by occupying the Rhineland in direct violation of the Versailles Treaty. By March of 1938, Germany had marched troops into Austria and re-united the two countries through annexation. Both actions met zero response from the Western powers, specifically Great Britain and France; arguably this lack of response emboldened Hitler. Hitler then set his sights on attaining the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, an area containing 3.5 million ethnic Germans. On September 22, 1933, Hitler demanded that the Sudetenland be given to Germany from Czechoslovakia based on claims that the ethnic Germans were being “terrorized and abused”; a false claim intended to justify German annexation of the Sudetenland should Czechoslovakia not comply with the
Prime Minister Chamberlain left Munich elated with the terms reached, he even went as far as to declare he had “come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace in our time.” (Chamberlain, Chamberlain declares peace in our time) The details of the agreement provided Germany their demanded lands, to include military fortifications within Czechoslovakia leaving them effectively defenseless, and without compensation or other considerations being made to the Czechoslovakians. The concept being, the forfeiture of the Sudetenland was a small price to pay to avoid another World War. It was feared that if Germany annexed the Sudetenland by force, Czechoslovakia “would certainly have resisted in arms, nor would any Power have the right to attempt to dissuade them.” (The Times, London Staff) Resultingly, “France would have been drawn in by direct obligations to Czechoslovakia; Great Britain and the Soviet Union would have been certain to come to the help of France” (The Times, London Staff) and thus the Second World War would be upon