Bell Ringers
| Clip Of Q&A with Antony Beevor

Bell Ringer: The Munich Pact and the Unfulfilled Promise of Peace

Description

Portions of an archival film of the 1938 meeting between British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French President Édouard Daladier, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. The agreement reached was supposed to permit Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia,and avert war.

5 minutes

Bell Ringer Assignment

  • Explain the Munich agreement as described in the archival film.
  • Describe the reaction of most people to the Munich Pact upon its agreement. How does Antony Beevor compare it to current issues in Europe?
  • Where is the Sudetenland? What was Adolf Hitler’s argument on why it should belong to Germany?
  • Explain why Neville Chamberlain agreed to the Munich Pact and trusted Adolf Hitler.

Participants

Vocabulary

  • Adolf Hitler
  • Appeasement
  • Austria-hungry Empire
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Edouard Daladier
  • Munich Agreement
  • Nazi Party
  • Neville Chamberlain
  • Sudetenland

Topics

World History