16 Facts About Munich Agreement

1.

Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy.

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2.

Munich Agreement was followed by the First Vienna Award on 2 November 1938, separating largely Hungarian inhabited territories in southern Slovakia and southern Subcarpathian Rus' from Czechoslovakia.

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3.

Munich Agreement'storians differ as to whether the SdP was a Nazi front organisation from its beginning or evolved into one.

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4.

Munich Agreement considered the Sudeten German grievances justified and believed Hitler's intentions to be limited.

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5.

Munich Agreement demanded that the increase in the firepower of the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau be accelerated.

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6.

Munich Agreement alleged that Benes's government was persecuting Germans along with Hungarians, Poles, and Slovaks and accused Benes of threatening the nationalities with being branded traitors if they were not loyal to the country.

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7.

Munich Agreement stated that he, as the head of state of Germany, would support the right of the self-determination of fellow Germans in the Sudetenland.

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8.

Munich Agreement condemned Benes for his government's recent execution of several German protesters.

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9.

Munich Agreement accused Benes of being belligerent and threatening behaviour towards Germany which, if war broke out, would result in Benes forcing Sudeten Germans to fight against their will against Germans from Germany.

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10.

Munich Agreement told Chamberlain that he wanted Czechoslovakia to be completely dissolved and its territories redistributed to Germany, Poland, and Hungary, and told Chamberlain to take it or leave it.

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11.

The phrase "Munich Agreement Betrayal" is used because the military alliance Czechoslovakia had with France proved useless.

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12.

On this basis it has been argued that the Munich Agreement kept Hitler in power—Halder remained bitter about Chamberlain's refusal for decades after the war—although whether the attempted removal would have been any more successful than the 1944 plot is doubtful.

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13.

Munich Agreement was greeted as a hero by the royal family and invited on the balcony at Buckingham Palace before he had presented the agreement to the British Parliament.

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14.

Munich Agreement immediately began to mobilize the British armed forces to a war footing, and France did the same.

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15.

My Government accept your Excellency's note as a practical solution of the questions and difficulties of vital importance for Czecho-Slovakia which emerged between our two countries as the consequence of the Munich Agreement, maintaining, of course, our political and juridical position with regard to the Munich Agreement and the events which followed it as expressed in the note of the Czecho-Slovak Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the 16th December, 1941.

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16.

In September 1942 the French National Committee, headed by Charles de Gaulle, proclaimed the Munich Agreement to be null and void from the very beginning, and on 17 August 1944, the French government reaffirmed this.

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