Across
- 2. German word for 'union'. It was used by Germans to describe the annexation of Austria in March 1938 (a breach of the Treaty of Versailles)
- 4. area of Czechoslovakia demanded by Hitler because of its ethnic German population
- 6. one of many nation states created following collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the redrawing of borders in 1919, later it was invaded in a joint attack from opposite sides by Germany from the west and the USSR from the east in September 1939
- 7. region named after a river, bordering France Germany, Luxemburg, Netherlands and Belgium which the Treaty of Versailles demanded be demilitarized
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- 1. four weeks after Hitler was sworn in, a Dutch member of this revolutionary party burnt down the Reichstag building
- 3. following his party gaining the most seats in the Reichstag in 1933, Adolf Hitler was invited to become assume this role by the President van Hindenburg, the role was similar to a Prime Minister
- 5. French and British leaders met with Hitler in this German city in September 1938, where they agreed to allow Germany to take territory in Czechoslovakia.