1938 Munich Agreement [View all]

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Munich Agreement, (September 30, 1938) ... reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy ... permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia ... Mussolini introduced a written plan that was accepted by all as the Munich Agreement. (Many years later it was discovered that the so-called Italian plan had been prepared in the German Foreign Office.) ... Czechoslovakia was informed by Britain and France that it could either resist Germany alone or submit to the prescribed annexations. The Czechoslovak government chose to submit ... Hitler annexed the remainder of Czechoslovakia in March and then precipitated World War II by invading Poland in September ... https://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Agreement