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The Munich Agreement [a] was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. [1]
Monty Python's 1969 The Funniest Joke in the World sketch references "Britain's pre-war joke" and shows an image of Chamberlain holding up the Munich Agreement paper. In the 2015 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Avengers: Age of Ultron , Tony Stark uses the phrase "Peace in our time" after creating the eponymous and seemingly benevolent ...
A Total and Unmitigated Defeat was a speech by Winston Churchill in the House of Commons at Westminster on Wednesday, 5 October 1938, the third day of the Munich Agreement debate. Signed five days earlier by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, the agreement met the demands of Nazi Germany in respect of the Czechoslovak region of Sudetenland.
The Commons discussed the Munich Agreement on 3 October. Though Cooper opened by setting forth the reasons for his resignation [ 141 ] and Churchill spoke harshly against the pact, no Conservative voted against the government.
The West German policy of staying neutral in the Arab–Israeli conflict after the Munich massacre and the following hijack of the Lufthansa Flight 615 in 1972, rather than taking a pro-Israel position, led to Israeli comparisons with the Munich Agreement of appeasement.
After the Munich Agreement, the leadership of the KSČ moved to Moscow and the party went underground. Until 1943, however, KSČ resistance was weak. The 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact , a non-aggression agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, had left the KSČ in disarray.
The United Kingdom and France agree to allow Hitler to seize control of the Sudetenland under the Munich Agreement. [33] 5 October 1938 Jews are required to have a red J in their passports. [7] 9–10 November 1938 Kristallnacht "the night of the broken glass" 12 November 1938
The Anti-Comintern Pact, [1] ... Munich Agreement Sep. 1938; ... and the date was specified in both countries' versions as 25 November 1936 as well as 25 November in ...