WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Adolf Hitler announced that it was his last territorial claim in Northern Europe. Today, the Munich Agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has become “a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist totalitarian states."

Detailed explanation-3: -No one wanted another world war after the devastation of the First World War, therefore, appeasement was a method to avoid a war. Britain could not fight another war, the equipment Britain had was out of date and Britain did not have sufficient numbers to keep up a long war against Germany.

Detailed explanation-4: -Overall however, appeasement was not justified as both countries helped to assist Germany into a stronger and more powerful nation permitting them to invade any country as they wish. This had an international impact and gave Stalin the impression of the true meaning of an agreement to allies.