<P> Joseph Stalin was also upset by the results of the Munich conference . The Soviets , who had a mutual military assistance treaty with Czechoslovakia , felt betrayed by France , who also had a mutual military assistance treaty with Czechoslovakia . The British and French , however , mostly used the Soviets as a threat to dangle over the Germans . Stalin concluded that the West had actively colluded with Hitler to hand over a Central European country to the Nazis , causing concern that they might do the same to the Soviet Union in the future , allowing the partition of the USSR between the western powers and the fascist Axis . This belief led the Soviet Union to reorient its foreign policy towards a rapprochement with Germany , which eventually led to the signing of the Molotov - Ribbentrop Pact in 1939 . </P>
what conference held in 1938 sought to prevent war between germany and the western democracies
the Munich conference