HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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“It took the Big Four just five hours and twenty-five minutes here in Munich today to dispel the clouds of war and come to an agreement over the partition of Czechoslovakia. There is to be no European war, after all. There is to be peace, and the price of that peace is, roughly, the ceding by Czechoslovakia of the Sudeten territory to Herr Hitler’s Germany/ The German Fuhrer gets what he wanted, only he has to wait a little longer for it. Not much longer though-only ten days.Source:William Shirer, recording of CBS radio report from Prague, September 29, 1938.The policy that France, Britain, and Italy chose to follow at this meeting is known as
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appeasement
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liberation
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self-determination
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pacification.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN 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: -Sept. 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland, marking what many regard as the start of the war, though Japan invaded China on July 7, 1937.
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?
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