✦ History

Munich Agreement

September 30, 1938

The Munich Agreement, reached on 30 September 1938 by Germany, Britain, France, and Italy, permitted Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland, the German-speaking border region of Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia itself was not party to the talks and was forced to accept the cession. The agreement is remembered in Czech and Slovak history as the Munich Betrayal, and Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia within months.

Contemporaries

Key people

Adolf Hitler head of state/government · Axis Neville Chamberlain signatory, signed for the United Kingdom · Allies Édouard Daladier signatory, signed for France · Allies

Participants

Before and after

Followed from
Anschluss March 12 – April 10, 1938
Led to
Invasion of Poland September 1 – October 6, 1939

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