The Munich Agreement, signed on 30 September 1938 at the Munich Conference attended by the leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, handed over the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany in the hope that this act of appeasement would prevent a world war and end the territorial expansion pursued by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).
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15 Sep 1938Neville Chamberlain meets Adolf Hitler in Bavaria to discuss the fate of the Czech Sudetenland.
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22 Sep 1938Neville Chamberlain meets Adolf Hitler on the Rhine to further discuss the fate of the Czech Sudetenland.
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29 Sep 1938 - 30 Sep 1938Britain, France, Italy, and Germany convene at the Munich Conference to decide the fate of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
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30 Sep 1938Britain, France, Italy, and Germany sign the Munich Agreement which gives the Czech Sudetenland to Germany.
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5 Oct 1938The Czech Sudetenland is absorbed into the Third Reich.
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15 Mar 1939Nazi Germany occupies what remains of Czechoslovakia.