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  2. Munich Agreement - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. A total and unmitigated defeat - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Peace for our time - Wikipedia

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    Monty Python's 1969 The Funniest Joke in the World sketch references "Britain's great 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 ...

  5. Foreign relations of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    In August 1939 Hitler and Stalin stunned the world with a friendly agreement between two bitter foes. They secretly agreed to split control of Eastern Europe. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Britain and France declared war, but neither was prepared to invade Germany or give any help to Poland.

  6. European foreign policy of the Chamberlain ministry - Wikipedia

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    Chamberlain flew to Munich to negotiate the agreement and received an ecstatic reception upon his return to Britain on 30 September 1938. At Heston Aerodrome , west of London, he made the now-famous " peace for our time " speech and waved the Anglo-German Declaration to a delighted crowd.

  7. Lesson of Munich - Wikipedia

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    The presidents who challenged the "tyranny of Munich" have often achieved policy breakthroughs and those who had cited Munich as a principle of US foreign policy had often led the nation into its "most enduring tragedies." [8] [full citation needed] Many later crises were accompanied by cries of "Munich" from politicians and the media.

  8. Timeline of events preceding World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Pact declares further cooperation between the two powers, but in a secret supplement the Pact is detailed as a military alliance. May 31 Denmark and Germany sign a non-aggression pact which is later broken when Germany invades Denmark the following year. [59] June 7 The German–Estonian and the German–Latvian non-aggression pacts are ...

  9. Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany

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    On 1 August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement, promulgated in the Potsdam Conference, among other things agreed on the initial terms under which the Allies of World War II would govern Germany. A provisional German–Polish border known as the Oder–Neisse line awarded, in theory within the context of that "provisional border", most of Germany's ...