Pact signed on 29 September 1938 by the leaders of the UK (Neville
Chamberlain), France (Edouard
Daladier), Germany (Adolf
Hitler), and Italy (Benito
Mussolini), under which Czechoslovakia was compelled to surrender its Sudeten-German districts (the
Sudeten) to Germany. Chamberlain claimed it would guarantee peace in our time, but it did not prevent Hitler from seizing the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.
Most districts were not given the option of a plebiscite under the agreement. After World War II the Sudeten was returned to Czechoslovakia, and over 2.5 million German-speaking people were expelled from the country.
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