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The Munich Agreement, signed on 30 September 1938 at the Munich Conference attended by the leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, handed over the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany in the hope that this act of appeasement would...

Throughout 1938, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of Nazi Germany, threatened to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. The excuse presented was that Sudeten Germans were being repressed but Hitler was intent on creating a 'Greater...

The Whiskey Rebellion was a violent uprising that occurred in western Pennsylvania in 1794, in opposition to an excise tax on liquor. After anti-tax protestors assaulted federal tax collectors and threatened to march on Pittsburgh, President...

A photograph showing the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) arriving at Heston airport after the Munich Agreement of September 1938. Chamberlain is waving a paper signed by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) promising Britain and...

A photograph showing (left to right) Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, respectively. They are about to sign the Munich Agreement of September 1938...

A photograph showing the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) and Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of Nazi Germany at Berchtesgaden, Bavaria on 15 September 1938 during the Sudentenland crisis which ended with Hitler's...

A 15th century CE manuscript illustration showing the capture of David II of Scotland (r. 1329-1371 CE) at the battle of Neville's Cross by English forces. The battle took place on 17 October 1346 CE. From the Jean Froissart Chronicles...

Aryan is a designation originally meaning “civilized”, “noble”, or “free” without reference to any ethnicity. It was first applied as a self-identifying term by a migratory group of people from Central Asia later known as Indo-Iranians (who...

A 17th-century CE painting depicting Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (1428 - 1471 CE). The painting is now part of the collection of the Marquess of Abergavenny.

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-byzantine-empire-leonora-neville Most history books will tell you that the Roman Empire fell in the fifth...