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Hitler And The Munich Pact

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Perhaps the greatest failure to fully grasp the true intentions of Hitler's regime was the signing of the Munich Pact. The Munich Pact or Munich Agreement was signed by the leaders of Germany, Italy, Britain, and France on September 30, 1938. The backdrop to the Munich Agreement is Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and Germany’s remilitarization. Hitler moved aggressively to jumpstart a foundering German economy and to jettison the constraints that had been imposed on the German military after World War I. European leaders nervously looked the other way as he ran roughshod over the security provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and reasserted German power in central Europe. One goal of Hitler’s policies was to create Lebensraum, or greater living

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