What caused the need for the Munich conference?

Answer 1

By 1938, Hitler was convinced that everyone else in Europe was so desperate to prevent war, that he could get almost anything that he wanted just by threatening war. It seems that he was right: he had bluffed everyone into thinking that the German army was much stronger than it really was in 1938.

After annexing Austria (with not much protest except from his friend Mussolini), Hitler began agitating for the Czech Sudetenland to be "returned" to Germany, because of its majority-German population. Because Czechoslovakia wanted to resist him, and because the Czechs were allied with both Russia and France, there was a strong chance of war occurring if Hitler invaded Sudetenland. Actually, he probably would not have invaded, because his generals were sure that they could not win.

But Hitler was "rescued" from a probable big loss of face, when Mussolini called for a conference to settle the Sudetenland question. The British and French quickly agreed. The Czechs were not consulted or invited. Hitler was able to indulge in theatricals at Munich. And the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia began.

"Peace in our time!" indeed! Hah!

Answer 2

Hitler was making inflammatory speeches demanding that Germans in Czechoslovakia be reunited with their homeland, war seemed imminent. Neither France nor Britain felt prepared to defend Czechoslovakia, however, and both were anxious to avoid a military confrontation with Germany at almost any cost. In mid-September, Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, offered to go to Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden to discuss the situation personally with the Führer. Hitler agreed to take no military action without further discussion, and Chamberlain agreed to try to persuade his Cabinet and the French to accept the results of a plebiscite in the Sudetenland. The French premier, Édouard Daladier, and his foreign minister, Georges Bonnet, then went to London, where a joint proposal was prepared stipulating that all areas with a population that was more than 50 percent Sudeten German be returned to Germany. The Czechoslovaks were not consulted. The Czechoslovak government initially rejected the proposal but was forced to accept it reluctantly on September 21.

On September 22 Chamberlain again flew to Germany and met Hitler at Godesberg, where he was dismayed to learn that Hitler had stiffened his demands: he now wanted the Sudetenland occupied by the German army and the Czechoslovaks evacuated from the area by September 28. Chamberlain agreed to submit the new proposal to the Czechoslovaks, who rejected it, as did the British Cabinet and the French. On the 24th the French ordered a partial mobilization: the Czechoslovaks had ordered a general mobilization one day earlier.

In a last-minute effort to avoid war, Chamberlain then proposed that a four-power conference be convened immediately to settle the dispute. Hitler agreed, and on September 29, Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier, and the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini met in Munich, where Mussolini introduced a written plan that was accepted by all as the Munich agreement.

Answer 3

This is an easy one:

When Germany wanted to take over the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia and they screamed for help. England decided to intervene and called the conference which was held in September of 1938.

Answer 4

*BELCH!* The need was caused by Germany trying to take the Sudetenland because they were greedy manipulators that wanted more than their fair share of resources, much as Mr. Curious George does when he asks and answers his own questions.