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: -Appeasement was the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers to avoid conflict. This policy was followed by the British and the French to prevent wars with aggressive powers like Germany and Italy.

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: -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-5: -The policy of appeasement was the name for the foreign policy of the Western European countries of Britain and France towards Germany in the years after World War I but before World War II.