history · 21 September 1938 · 86 years ago
Poland demanded Czechoslovakia to hold a plebiscite for the Zaolzie region, claiming the region, with its Polish majority, wished to join Poland. The French responded to the question from Czechoslovakian President Edvard Bene from the previous day, noting that they would only only honor the terms of the alliance if Bene agreed to cede Sudetenland to Germany, thus avoiding war. Seeing no help from the French, Bene turned to the Soviet Union, which would only honor the mutual defense treaty if the French honored theirs. Receiving no support from the nations who were supposedly his allies, Bene gave up and accepted the German demands for Sudetenland in the late afternoon.
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