What was Winston Churchill's reaction to the 1938 Munich Agreement?
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In 1938, Neville Chamberlain returned home to Britain holding a copy of the Munich Pact giving the Sudentland of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany in exchange for peace. The British parliament adopted the agreement, but it was far from unanimous.
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He strongly denounced it and got down to the issue, saying that the western democracies had been defeated without engaging in battle.
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- During his 45-minute speech, Churchill criticised the government's appeasement stance in general as well as its decision to sign the deal. Churchill's support for the government's appeasement strategy was formally terminated with the speech.
- Churchill had hoped for a fair resolution to the Sudetenland dispute, but he was emphatic that Britain must continue to fight for Czechoslovakia's independence.
- Churchill argued that the Soviet Union should have been asked to participate in the discussions with Hitler as one of his critiques of the administration.
Churchill and the followers of the Conservative Party decided to abstain despite their public opposition to the arrangement.
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