(A) Hitler’s attack on Austria
(B) The Nazi Party
(C) The War Production Board
(D) ** The Munich Agreement
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Two years later, in March 1938, he annexed Austria. At the Munich Conference that September, Neville Chamberlain seemed to have averted war by agreeing that Germany could occupy the Sudetenland, the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia-this became known as the Munich Agreement.
Concept note-2: -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-3: -An example of appeasement is the infamous 1938 Munich Agreement, in which Great Britain sought to avoid war with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy by taking no action to prevent Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 or Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938.
Concept note-4: -The Munich Agreement has become a classic example of how not to conduct foreign policy, and it turned “appeasement” into a dirty word. But Munich also highlights a classic dilemma of diplomacy: accommodation can signal weakness and invite aggression, but standing firm can trigger conflicts otherwise avoided.
Concept note-5: -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.