Which land did Germany claim due to a large German-speaking population?

• A. Rhineland
• B. Holocaust
• C. Isolationism
• D. Sudetenland

Answer: (D)

Focusing on claims based on ethnic composition helps explain why this land was targeted. The Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia with a large German-speaking population, became the focus of German demand for annexation. Hitler argued that those ethnic Germans should be part of Germany, and this justification helped pave the way for the 1938 Munich Agreement and Germany’s further expansion. The other options don’t fit this idea: the Rhineland relates to a separate policy of remilitarization, the Holocaust is about genocide, and isolationism refers to a foreign-policy stance rather than a territorial claim. So the land tied to the German-speaking population was the Sudetenland.