Czechoslovakia: How Britain Turned the Failure of a State into a Cause for War

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Czechoslovakia: How Britain Turned the Failure of a State into a Cause for War

By John Wear

Published: 2020-11-02

The Munich Agreement signed by Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy on September 30, 1938 was meant to mark the beginning of a new era in European affairs. The Versailles Treaty, which had been so deleterious to Germany, was now successfully dismantled without a war. A new epoch, based on equality and mutual confidence among the four great European Powers, was supposed to take its place.[1]

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the cheering crowd in London that welcomed him home after signing the Munich Agreement, “I believe it is peace in our time.”[2] Unfortunately, the mutual confidence that was supposed to arise among the four great European powers quickly unraveled. This article discusses the events that led to Germany’s assuming the protection of Czechoslovakia, and their exploitation by British high officials to promote war against Germany.

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[Satem]

It was very sad document, Europe decided to cut off such many lands from Czechoslovakia without any voting. It was too late to prevent War after so submissive politics. And Poland also had it's own part in it, not big part but still which in my opinion was weird move of Polish authorities.