the Munich Agreement
/ðə ˈmjuːnɪk əɡriːmənt/
/ðə ˈmjuːnɪk əɡriːmənt/
(also the Munich Pact)
- an agreement signed in Munich in September 1938 between Britain, France, Germany and Italy. It allowed Germany to take control of a part of Czechoslovakia. The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, said that the agreement represented ‘peace in our time’, and at the time many people believed that it had saved Europe from war. However, in March 1939 Hitler took all of Czechoslovakia and in September the Second World War began. Now people sometimes call an agreement that has no value ‘another Munich’.