WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following documents is an example of “appeasement”?
A
Lend-Lease Act
B
Non-Aggression Pact
C
Treaty of Versailles
D
Munich Pact
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Munich Conference was notable because it is an example of appeasement. Neville Chamberlain came home to London and used the signed agreement with Hitler as proof that war had been averted.

Detailed explanation-3: -The article reports that the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, had signed the Munich Agreement with Hitler, a document aimed at preventing war with Germany. This policy was known as ‘appeasement’.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Examples of appeasement This included Britain not ‘getting tough’ on Germany when it rearmed and invaded the Rhineland, and its invasion of Czechoslovakia. The most famous example of appeasement is Chamberlain signing the Munich agreement which resulted in Germany taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.

Detailed explanation-6: -Munich Pact : Annex to the Agreement When the question of the Polish and Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia has been settled, Germany and Italy for their part will give a guarantee to Czechoslovakia. Munich, September 29, 1938.

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