defenition of munich conference
The Munich Conference, also known as the Munich Agreement, was a meeting held in September 1938 in Munich, Germany, between the leaders of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany. The conference was convened to address the escalating crisis over Czechoslovakia, as Germany was seeking to annex the Sudetenland region, which was part of Czechoslovakia and had a large ethnic German population.
At the conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Premier Edouard Daladier, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler agreed to allow Germany to annex the Sudetenland in return for a pledge of peace. The agreement was widely criticized at the time for appeasing Hitler and allowing him to continue his expansionist policies in Europe. Ultimately, the Munich Agreement failed to prevent the outbreak of World War II, which began less than a year later.