Why did Chamberlin sign the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938?

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Why did Chamberlin sign the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938?

In this essay I am going to explain why Chamberlin signed the Munich agreement. On 30th September 1938 Neville Chamberlin, the British Prime Minister landed in London having returned from the Munich conference. At the airport he held up a piece of paper which he and Adolf Hitler had signed. He said that it was ‘peace in our time’. But it was not.

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Neville Chamberlin thought that another war would destroy civilisation. He thought that another war would corrupt Britain and he tried to avoid war rather than go to war. This war would happen with Germany so instead of being enemies with Germany he decided to sign the Munich Agreement which means peace to both countries.

If Great Britain went to war then they would not win as they had a less Army and RAF soldiers than Navy soldiers. With a weak Army and RAF Britain was not ready for war. To stop war from happening Chamberlin signed the Munich ...

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