Transcription: In 1936, Hitler and the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini formed the Rome-Berlin Axis and the Western Allies began to fear a second world war. Two years later, the German army occupied Austria, annexing the country to Germany with no resistance from any quarter. Next, Hitler threatened to take Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Anxious to avoid a worldwide conflict, British Prime Minister Chamberlain and French Premier de Ladier met with Hitler in Munich and granted 11,000 miles of Czech territory to Germany in the Munich Pact over the protests of the Czechs. In return, Hitler promised to halt h ...
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