Munich Pact

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noun

the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.

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Also called Munich Agreement.

Words nearby Munich Pact

Munhall, muni, muni bond fund, munic., Munich, Munich Pact, municipal, municipal bond, municipal bond fund, municipal bonds, municipal corporation

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How to use Munich Pact in a sentence

The risk to his life was great enough that he had to flee Munich when Hitler attempted to seize power in November 1923.
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Hitchcock went to Munich as part of an Anglo-German production team.
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The pact covered two months, September and October, but “may be extended by the parties,” the filing states.
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At the same time, the Warsaw Pact threat was disintegrating.
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Outposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam.
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A pupil of her father until his death, when she became a student under Gabriel Max, in Munich, for a year.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
I saw you go white once before, when I tried to make you talk about Munich; and the romantic Flora was full of surmises.
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Jaffery, to give himself an appetite for dinner, ordered half a litre of Munich beer.
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The Federal Pact of 1815 had undone Napoleon's comparatively liberal constitution.
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There was no majestic vision of a people rising in its own spontaneous might and deciding its destinies in a great national pact.
The Life of Mazzini|Bolton King

British Dictionary definitions for Munich Pact

Munich Pact

Munich Agreement

noun

the pact signed by Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy on Sept 29, 1938, to settle the crisis over Czechoslovakia, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany

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Cultural definitions for Munich Pact

Munich Pact

An agreement between Britain and Germany in 1938, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia in which German-speaking peoples lived. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiated on behalf of Britain, and Chancellor Adolf Hitler on behalf of Germany. Chamberlain returned to London proclaiming that the Munich Pact had secured “peace in our time.” The Germans invaded Poland less than a year later (see invasion of Poland), and World War II began.

notes for Munich Pact

In later years, the Munich Pact was denounced as pure appeasement of Hitler.