Global Context • 1938
German troops invade Austria, one of many transgressions of the Versailles treaty. Faced with the increasing aggression of Nazi Germany, leaders of Britain, France, Italy and Germany hold a conference in Munich in an attempt to quell rising political tensions. A separate document is signed between Hitler and British prime minister Neville Chamberlain that guarantees peace between Germany and Britain.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.