The Munich Pact was the outcome of the Conference held at Munich in September 1938 in which Britain, Itly, France and Germany took part. The Soviet Union and Czectoa- were not present in the Conference.
According to the Pact, Germany the United Kingdom, France Itly taking into consideration the agreement which has been already reached in principle for cession to Germany of Sudetan German territory, have agreed on the following terms and conditions governing the cession and measures consequent thereon and by this agreement they each themselves held responsible for the steps necessary to secure its fulfilment.” As per terms of the Munich Pact: (a) Evacuation of Sudetan German territory was to begin from 1 October and to be completed by 10 October 1938 without the destruction of the existing installations.
The conditions of evacuations were to be laid down by a Commission consisting of Germans, Italians, British, French and Czech representatives; (b) Bohemia and Morabia provinces were to be handed over to Germany; (c) Any Sudetan citizen wanting to leave Czech army or police was to be allowed to do so; (d) Teschen provinces, where the Poles were in majority, were to be handed over to Poland; (e) Ruthenial provinces, with Hungarian population, was to be handed over to Hungary; and (f) Slovakia was admitted as a separate kingdom in Czecholovakia.
The Munich Pact was the culmination of the policy of appeasement and a death warrant for the western democracies. It was the symbol of collapse of collective security. Hitler successfully duped Chamberlain by emphasising that if the problem of Czecholovakia was solved, Germany would not have any further territorial ambitions and there would be peace in Europe.
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However, this proved to be a mere farce. Commenting on the Munich Pact, Churchill observed “Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour, they choose dishonour and they will have war.”