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: -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-3: -The policy of appeasement is seen by some to be a primary cause of World War II. This view holds that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and other Western leaders enabled Adolf Hitler to become increasingly aggressive in his foreign policies due to their willingness to appease Nazi Germany.

Detailed explanation-4: -Britain and France were convinced to end their policy of appeasement when Hitler broke his promises from the Munich Conference and took over the rest of Czechoslovakia. They knew Hitler had to be stopped and declared war on Germany when Hitler invaded Poland.