Signing of the Munich Pact (Sept. 30, 1938) -- the end of Diplomacy and onset of slide into global war

 AP NEWS / on this day

in HISTORY

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signing nations were

Germany

Gr. Britain

France 

Italy

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the pact forced

Czechoslovakia

to give up its southern

territory

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in March 1939 Hitler would

seize the entire nation of

Czechoslovakia