1 Jan 1938 Jahr - Munich Conference

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A conference in Munich, Germany, held in September 1938 during which Britain and France agreed to allow Germany to annex the Sudetenland — a German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia — in return for Hitler’s pledge to seek no more territory.



Encouraged by the weak worldwide response to the invasions of China and Ethiopia and the remilitarization of the Rhineland, Hitler was further emboldened by British and French neutrality in the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, a clash of fascism and liberal republicanism. Growing more aggressive, in 1938 he forcefully annexed Austria and signaled his intention to seize the Sudetenland — a German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia. Because Czechoslovakia had an alliance with France, war seemed imminent. But at the Munich Conference in September 1938, Britain and France capitulated, agreeing to let Germany annex the Sudetenland in return for Hitler’s pledge to seek no more territory. The agreement, declared British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, guaranteed “peace for our time.” Hitler drew a different conclusion, telling his generals: “Our enemies are small fry. I saw them in Munich.”

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