1. A Desperate Stop for War
The Munich Conference
Chad, Elexis, Micaela

2. Overview
The Munich Conference was a meeting between French Premier Edouard Daladier, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Germany’s new leader Adolf Hitler.
Hitler wanted land which bordered Germany called the Sudetenland and promised Europe that this would be his final request for land. France and Great Britain did not want to start another war and gave into Germany’s requests. This idea of giving in is called appeasement which most of Europe believed in to avoid another world conflict.
Now that Hitler got what he wanted, he had thought that the rest of Europe was weak and he could demand more because no other countries wanted war.
But Hitler was wrong because when he tried to annex Czechoslovakia after the Sudetenland, he broke the Munich Agreement and that infuriated Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. World War II was now about to officially begin…

3. Who, What, Where, When, Why???
Who: Great Britain’s Neville Chamberlain, France’s Edouard Daladier and Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
What: A meeting to sign an agreement that Hitler’s take over of the Sudetenland would be his final request.
Where: Munich, Germany
When: 1938
Why: Hitler’s annexation of many European countries were beginning to anger Europeans however they did not want to start conflict, so they agreed to hold a conference.

4. Pictures
Chamberlain delivering his “peace for our time” speech to Britain after the agreement was signed.
The meeting in Munich. Chamberlain, Hitler, Daladier (from left to right).

5. Pictures
An overwhelmed Sudeten woman as she salutes her new leader in tears of joy.
Hitler signs the Munich Agreement

7. Significance to War How could the war been different?
Since Great Britain and France agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland, Hitler realized that they were weak and afraid. This gave him more confidence to take over even more countries. If Great Britain and France had tried to stop Hitler, the war may had started earlier but it wouldn’t have shown Britain's and France’s weakness.

8. The Beginning of Appeasement
France and Britain appeased Germany and allowed them to take over the Sudetenland.
By appeasing Germany it allowed the Nazi Party to rise up. Many thought Hitler would be good, being a “tough aggressor” or good opponent for the Soviet Union.
Most European countries supported appeasement.
Another reason Great Britain and France appeased Germany was because they didn’t believe they had strong enough armed forces to fight.
The Munich Conference was a symbol for the new European appeasement.

9. The End of Appeasement
Hitler told Neville Chamberlain that the Sudetenland was his “last territorial demand in Europe.”
But after he took that over, he realized how he wanted the rest of Czechoslovakia instead of just the Sudetenland and took the rest over.
The violation of The Munich Agreement showed the rest of Europe that appeasement could not work anymore.
Hitler’s violation of the agreement really angered France and GB but Hitler wasn’t done and was now heading for Poland with his new method of war called Blitzkrieg.
British and French gov. said they would defend their ally Poland if Germany attacked.
Sept. 1st 1939 German Army invaded Poland. Hitler wasted no time from the take over of Czechoslovakia (6 months). GB and France declared war 2 days later and WWII had officially begun!

10. Hitler’s Takeovers

11. Critics Opinions
Anti-Appeasers criticized the Prime Ministers for giving in but critics say they were so fearful of another war that sacrificing a democratic country like Czechoslovakia may have made it worse.
They also say it would have been better for Great Britain and France to go to war with Germany while the Nazi’s were still trying to rise up and when they didn’t have so much advanced war machinery.

12. Quiz 1). Most of Europe was in support of appeasement? T/F
A: True
2). The Munich Agreement told Hitler he could NOT take over the Sudetenland? T/F
A: False
3). Do you think GB and France should have gone to war after Hitler’s take over of Austria or waited to sign the Munich Agreement?

13. Works Cited
Munich Agreement. John Simkin, 17 Sept Web. 30 Mar <
Feldman, George. WWII Alamanac. Vol. 1. Detroit: Likson, 2000
Lapsansky- Werner, Emma J., Peter B. Levy., Randy Roberts, Alan Taylor. United States History. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2008.