The Munich Conference: The 1938 Pact That Failed to Stop War

The Munich Conference of September 1938 was a meeting between Nazi Germany, Britain, France, and Italy that resulted in the Munich Agreement, forcing Czechoslovakia to cede its border region, the Sudetenland, to Germany. Intended as an act of appeasement to prevent another world war, the agreement instead emboldened Adolf Hitler and is now a byword for the futility of conceding to expansionist dictators.