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Munich Agreement: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Munich Pact
Date September 30, 1938
Location Czechoslovakia • Sudetenland
Participants France • Germany • Italy • United Kingdom

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Munich Agreement: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Neville Chamberlain
Large procession of men in suits marches across a bridge in Karlsbad, Germany, carrying Sudeten German Party flags, with city buildings visible in the background, April 1937.
Édouard Daladier
Neville Chamberlain
Crowds gather outside the Dreesen Hotel in Bad Godesberg, which is decorated with large Nazi and British flags for the 1938 meeting between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain.
Munich Agreement
Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini stand in a formal room with other officials during the Munich Agreement negotiations in Munich, Germany.
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Portrait of Adolf Hitler in a collared shirt and tie, facing forward with a serious expression, circa 1933.
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator
Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain
prime minister of United Kingdom
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
British statesman
Daladier, c. 1950
Édouard Daladier
French statesman
Georges-Etienne Bonnet, 1943
Georges-Étienne Bonnet
French politician
Henderson, Sir Nevile Meyrick
Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson
British statesman