USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness.

Detailed explanation-3: -Throughout the 1930s, Britain and France let Hitler do what he wanted, hoping that he would stop making demands and war would not happen. This policy was known as appeasement.

Detailed explanation-4: -How did Britain and France try to prevent war with Germany? They held the Munich Conference in Munich Germany. They used a tactic of appeasement by accepting Germany’s demand of giving Germany the Sudetenland as long as Germany promised to stop expanding it’s territory.

Detailed explanation-5: -Countries like Britain and France followed ‘The Policy of Appeasement’ as: They knew that the Treaty of Versailles had been harsh on the defeated nations of World War I. They felt that countries like Germany and Italy had genuine grievances.