 The Munich Agreement that followed it marked a partial German annexation of Czechoslovakia in late 1938, followed by its complete dissolution in March 1939, which was part of the appeasement of Germany conducted by Neville Chamberlain and Édouard Daladier's cabinets.That policy immediately raised the question of whether the Soviet Union could avoid being next on Hitler's list.The Soviet leadership believed that the West wanted to encourage German aggression in the East and that France and Britain might stay neutral in a war initiated by Germany in the hope that the warring states would wear each other out and put an end to both regimes.