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Sep 23, 2024 · It is most commonly associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in office from 1937 to 1940. In the 1930s, the British government pursued a policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany. Today, appeasement is usually regarded as a failure because it did not prevent World War II.
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. Yet at the time, it was a popular and seemingly pragmatic policy.
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Appeasement, foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation to prevent war. The prime example is Britain’s policy toward Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Neville Chamberlain agreed to Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia, in the 1938 Munich Agreement.
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Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement was strongly opposed by Conservative Member of Parliament and future prime minister Winston Churchill. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler greet each other at the Munich conference.
Within three years, Hitler instituted military conscription to rebuild the German armed forces and remilitarized the Rhineland. He also expanded Germany’s borders, most notably in March 1938, when Germany annexed neighboring Austria, a process known as the Anschluss. At each step, Great Britain and France grew more and more concerned about ...
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Due to the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Hitler knew that the Soviet Union would not stand in his way over Poland. German forces crossed into Poland on 1 September 1939. Image caption,
