Munich Agreement
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English: The Munich Agreement was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland Crisis between the major powers of Europe after a conference held in Munich, Germany in 1938 and signed on September 29. The Sudetenland was an area of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans formed a majority of the population. It was of immense strategic importance to Czechoslovakia, as most of its border defenses were situated there, along with a huge armament facility Škoda Works. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of Czechoslovakia and it ended up surrendering much of that state to Nazi Germany.
 Front page of the Czechoslovak newspaper Večerní České Slovo on 22 September 1938, on the eve of conclusion of the Munich Agreement |
 Neville Chamberlain makes a brief speech announcing “Peace in our Time” on his arrival at Heston Airport after his meeting with Hitler at Munich. September 1938. |
 Czechoslovakia after Munich Agreement, and then after dissolution and German occupation of Bohemia |
.png) Partition of Czechoslovakia |
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