The Munich Agreement was concluded on 29 and 30 September 1938 by Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdom, represented by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Edouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain. It gave Germany the Sudetenland, the border areas of Czechoslovakia with a large German-speaking population, to be handed over in stages. Czechoslovakia, which had a defensive alliance with France, was not invited to the talks and was told to accept. Chamberlain returned to Britain claiming that he had secured peace for our time, and the agreement became the best-known example of the policy of appeasement. Hitler broke his promises in March 1939 by occupying the rest of the Czech lands, and the agreement is widely seen as a failure that encouraged German aggression.
Before and after
- 6 July 1938Discovery of Lysithea
- 16 July 1938Construction of London Luton Airport
- 30 July 1938Discovery of Carme
- 9 August 1938Birth of Leonid Kuchma
- 30 September 1938Munich agreement
- 9 October 1938Birth of Heinz Fischer
- 29 October 1938Birth of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- November 1938Kristallnacht
- 10 November 1938Death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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