Question

Munich Agreement Pact of Steel Lend-Lease Act Tripartite Pact an agreement that allowed Germany to take control of the German-speaking areas in Czechoslovakia arrowRight an agreement signed by Italy and Germany to strengthen their military and political relationship arrowRight an act that allowed the United States to supply military and other goods to Britain arrowRight an alliance between Italy, Japan, and Germany that formalized them as the Axis powers arrowRight

Answer 1

On this day in 1940, the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war.

Answer 2

The Munich Agreement was an agreement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia, along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined. The agreement was signed in Munich, Germany on the early hours of 30 September 1938 (although dated 29 September) after being negotiated upon by the major powers of Europe, excluding the Soviet Union. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future ownership of the Sudetenland in the face of demands made by Adolf Hitler. The agreement was signed by the government leaders of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy, but not Czechoslovakia, who were not invited to the conference, even though the Sudetenland was of immense strategic importance to Czechoslovakia as most of its border defenses and banks were situated there,[1][2] as well as heavy industrial districts.[3] The Agreement was soon followed by dismemberment of the Czech state.

Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has become "a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist totalitarian states".[4]