20h 7min, mar 10, 1938 y - Schuschnigg reluctantly agrees and Seyss-Inquart becomes Chancellor. He does this because he knows Britain and France and Italy will not help him due to domestic issues - in France two days before Germany invaded Austria the entire French government had resigned - in Britain Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, had resigned over Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's decision to open negotiations with the Fascist dictator of Italy, Mussolini. Chamberlain was determined to appease Hitler and there was no will (Timeline)