(A) Congress authorizing the Manhattan project
(B) Japan attacking Pearl Harbor
(C) Great Britain signing a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union
(D) ** Great Britain and France agreeing to Hitler’s demand for part of Czechoslovakia
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Munich Agreement, (September 30, 1938), settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
Concept note-2: -appeasement, Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation in order to prevent war. The prime example is Britain’s policy toward Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Concept note-3: -Examples of appeasement German occupation of Austria and Czechoslovakia met no resistance whatsoever from either Britain or France. There was only half-hearted British action against the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia). The allied powers failed to check the German advancement in Rhineland.
Concept note-4: -On September 3, 1939, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
Concept note-5: -Examples of appeasement This included Britain not ‘getting tough’ on Germany when it rearmed and invaded the Rhineland, and its invasion of Czechoslovakia. The most famous example of appeasement is Chamberlain signing the Munich agreement which resulted in Germany taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.