USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following terms describes giving in to aggressive demands in order to maintain peace?
A
lebensraum
B
appeasement
C
capitulation
D
blitzkrieg
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Appeasement: Giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace.

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Appeasement is a diplomatic strategy by which a state attempts to conciliate a poten-tial aggressor or rival by making concessions through negotiations. Appeasement was a little-known and seldom commented upon policy before the 1930s.

Detailed explanation-5: -What was the result of appeasement? Appeasement reached its climax in September 1938 with the Munich Agreement. Chamberlain hoped to avoid a war over Czechoslovakia by conceding to Adolf Hitler’s demands. The Agreement allowed Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland, the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia.

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