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==== Munich Betrayal ====
In 1938, Britain approved the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia. This is known as the Munich Betrayal in Czechoslovakia, or the Munich Agreement in the West. It was justified to the public as "appeasement" of the Nazis. The British PM Chamberlain hoped that the Nazis would invade the USSR in exchange for this token.

A British bank in Czechoslovakia gave the Nazis billions of pounds of gold.

The USSR offered to defend Czechoslovakia, but Poland and Romania refused to let the Red Army cross through.<ref>Ragsdale, Hugh (2001). "The Butenko Affair: Documents from Soviet-Romanian Relations in the Time of the Purges, Anschluss, and Munich". ''The Slavonic and East European Review''. '''79''' (4): 698–720. doi:10.1353/see.2001.0004. ISSN 0037-6795. JSTOR 4213322.</ref>