ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Munich Agreement

Okay kiddo, so a long time ago, in 1938, there was a crisis in Europe. There was a country called Czechoslovakia which was in trouble because some other countries wanted to take over part of its land. These countries were Germany, Italy, and Hungary.

The leader of Germany at the time was a guy named Hitler. He was a very bad guy who wanted to take over a lot of countries and make them part of Germany. The leaders of the other countries didn't want to go to war with Germany, so they got together and made a plan to try and avoid a war.

The plan was called the Munich Agreement. It said that Germany could take a part of Czechoslovakia called Sudetenland, but they couldn't take any more. This was meant to make Hitler happy and stop him from starting a war.

But, sadly, it didn't work. Hitler didn't keep his promise and ended up taking over the rest of Czechoslovakia and starting World War II. The Munich Agreement was seen as a big mistake because it showed that trying to avoid a war by giving in to a bully doesn't always work.