WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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A nation invades a foreign territory and, in return, is attacked by other countries who feel threatened.
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A nation invades a territory and the international community agrees to let them have it in exchange for a promise not to show any more aggression.
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A nation invades a territory and is immediately met with economic sanctions meant to make them withdraw.
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A nation decides to stake its claim to a territory by bringing its case before the international community, rather than resorting to military action.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Examples of appeasement The most famous example of appeasement is Chamberlain signing the Munich agreement which resulted in Germany taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain hoped this would be the end of Hitler’s demands, although other politicians such as Churchill warned otherwise.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -An example of appeasement was the Munich Agreement of September 1938. In the Agreement, Britain and France allowed Germany to annex areas in Czechoslovakia where German-speakers lived. Germany agreed not to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia or any other country.