HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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strategy
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encroachment
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deceit
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appeasement
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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.
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: -Why is the Munich Pact an example of appeasement? It allowed Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia. With which country did Hitler make a nonaggression pact in 1939?
Detailed explanation-4: -Seeking to avoid war in Europe, leaders from Britain, France and Italy signed the Munich Pact on September 29, 1938, agreeing to Hitler’s demands and ceding Czechoslovakia to Germany.