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Episode 73, The Munich Agreement Part 5, We Had No Other Choice.

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Over the course of the last two weeks of September 1938, the ongoing tension between the

Czechoslovakian government on one side and the Sudeten Germans on the other would be solved.

It would involve both personal meetings between the political leaders of various nations,

followed by a four-nation summit to finalize

the agreement. These talks were initiated with the goal of coming to a definitive solution

that would, at least it was hoped, be a lasting one. The eventual outcome would be the session

of certain territories from Czechoslovakia to Germany. One of the nations that would not be involved

in any of these discussions was Czechoslovakia itself. The level of frustration in Czechoslovakia

would grow, as it would be forced by its supposed friends into greater and greater sacrifices

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