Answer: The Munich Pact
Explanation:
Munich Agreement: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Neville Chamberlain
Munich Agreement: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Neville Chamberlain
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Date: September 30, 1938
Location: Czechoslovakia Sudetenland
Participants: France Germany Italy United Kingdom
Key People: Neville Chamberlain Édouard Daladier Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson Adolf Hitler Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
Munich Agreement, (September 30, 1938), settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
Sudeten Germans
Sudeten Germans
After his success in absorbing Austria into Germany proper in March 1938, Adolf Hitler looked covetously at Czechoslovakia, where about three million people in the Sudetenland were of German origin. In April he discussed with Wilhelm Keitel, the head of the German Armed Forces High Command, the political and military aspects of “Case Green,” the code name for the envisaged takeover of the Sudetenland. A surprise onslaught “out of a clear sky without any cause or possibility of justification” was rejected because the result would have been “a hostile world opinion which could lead to a critical situation.” Decisive action therefore would take place only after a period of political agitation by the Germans inside Czechoslovakia accompanied by diplomatic squabbling which, as it grew more serious, would either itself build up an excuse for war or produce the occasion for a lightning offensive after some “incident” of German creation. Moreover, disruptive political activities inside Czechoslovakia had been underway since as early as October 1933, when Konrad Henlein founded the Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront (Sudeten-German Home Front).