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The Munich Conference was held in Munich, Germany on September 28-29, 1938, with the leaders of Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Adolf Hitler had demanded the possession of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. (The area contained the Czech border fortifications and some heavy industry as well as 3 million Germans).

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it. When Hitler would not back down, and even extended his demands, Chamberlain decided to follow a policy of "appeasement" and gave in to Hitler on this issue, in the hope that Hitler would not make any more demands.

Thus, Chamberlain, French leader Edouard Daladier, and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini met in Munich with Hitler and agreed to the annexation of the Sudeten region to Germany. Czechoslovakia was not invited to attend. Hitler said that it was his "final demand" in Europe and Chamberlain returned to Britain and announced that he had achieved "peace in our time." However, just five months later, Hitler broke the spirit of the agreement by dismembering the rest of Czechoslovakia. Hitler's true intentions for Europe were made very clear, and France and Britain ended up looking foolish and being discredited.

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