Thesis

“I believe that this is peace for our time,” Neville Chamberlain said after he returned from the signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, between Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Chamberlain believed that diplomacy amongst countries would stop Hitler’s desire to conquer Europe. Despite debates against appeasement, the Munich Agreement was still signed, giving Germany the Sudetenland, or the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia. Although the Munich Agreement was believed to prevent war, Germany still ignored the pact and very quickly conquered the rest of Czechoslovakia.