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The Munich Agreement [a] was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. [1]
The lesson of Munich, in international relations, refers to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference in September 1938. To avoid war, France and the United Kingdom permitted Nazi Germany to incorporate the Sudetenland .
The Munich Security Conference (MSC; German: Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz) is an annual conference on international security policy that has been held in Munich, Bavaria, Germany since 1963. Formerly named the Munich Conference on Security Policy ( German : Münchner Konferenz für Sicherheitspolitik ), [ 1 ] the motto is: Peace through Dialogue.
The Munich Agreement was a compromise since Hitler abandoned his more extreme demands such as settling the Polish and Hungarian claims by 1 October, but the conference concluded that Czechoslovakia was to turn over the Sudetenland to Germany within ten days in October and would be supervised by an Anglo-Franco-Italo-German commission.
The 50th Munich Security Conference was held from 31 January to 2 February 2014. [1] At the event, more than 400 international guests attended, including 20 Heads of State and Government, [ 2 ] 50 foreign and defence ministers and 90 government delegations. [ 3 ]
Munich city coat-of-arms. The year 1158 is assumed to be the foundation date of Munich, which is only the earliest date the city is mentioned in a document.By that time the Guelph Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, built a bridge over the river Isar next to a settlement of Benedictine monks.
The chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, described in his welcoming speech the central themes of the conference.Ischinger warned that the international order was in its worst shape since the end of the Cold War, and described the outlook as "grim" and urged the international community, especially Europe, to expand their efforts to cooperate.
The 51st Munich Security Conference was held from 6 to 8 February 2015. Among the more than 400 participants [ 1 ] from nearly 80 countries were 20 heads of state, 70 foreign and defence ministers [ 2 ] and 30 CEOs of large companies. [ 3 ]