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Signing of the Munich Pact
Signing of the Munich Pact
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In 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, along with representatives from France and Italy, signed the Munich Pact with German leader Adolf Hitler. The pact acceded to Hitler’s demands for cession of the Sudetenland, a German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia, to Germany. Chamberlain announced afterwards that there would be “peace in our time,” but the agreement averted war only temporarily. For many Western nations the agreement became a symbol of appeasement.
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