The Munich Agreement was a settlement between the major powers of Europe (France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Nazi Germany) agreed to on 29 September 1938. The agreement stipulated that Adolf Hitler could annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in exchange for halting his territorial expansion, and it led to the occupation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany. The agreement was a stab in the back of Czechoslovakia on the part of France and Britain, which betrayed their ally by allowing for Germany to take over a large portion of the country. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to Britain and proudly flaunted the document, saying that the British had achieved "peace in our time".
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