Appeasement

Appeasement, it didn’t work when trying to prevent WWII and it doesn’t work today. You can’t try to make a deal with someone that you know won’t keep their end of the deal, like Hitler with Chamberlin prior to WWII. By trying to appease Hitler and telling him not to attack it just showed Hitler that he had power and that people would listen to him. Today when dealing with stubborn and aggressive enemies appeasing will lead to lies and tricks. We can see what appeasement did to prevent WWII, nothing, and it will do the same today. When you try to use appeasement to stop an enemy that won’t stop at anything it simply won’t work. Telling Hitler to stop trying to take over the world it’s like telling a serial killer to stop killing, they won’t listen. Sure there is a law or an agreement against that but that won’t stop evil people like Hitler or a serial killer from doing evil. Hitler even said that he did not care about the deal he had made with Chamberlin…

The devastation in Europe caused by World War I led many countries to be left with little options, and British leaders came to the conclusion that the policy of appeasement would be the best for the country in order to avoid another war. According to Overy, the policy of appeasement was British and French attempts to satisfy the demands of the aggressive nations during the 1930’s, specifically Germany, Japan, and Italy. The interwar years is the time period between each world war, from 1919 to…

In 1939 the world plunged into World War 2. The Nazi leader Adolph Hitler attacked and conquered many European countries. Germany, Italy and Japan made up the Axis power while Russia, Great Britain, France and the United States made up the Allies. Some of the leaders of the Allies were torn about how to deal with Hitler and the rest of the Nazi clan. Should they try to appease Hitler or fight back. Appeasement is when one leader satisfies/calms the other leader by giving something up. The…

During the 1930’s, Britain and France followed the policy of appeasement. Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister was particularly keen to pursue the policy. The Oxford definition of appeasement is: “the action or process of appeasing.” Britain and France were crippled from the emotional, economic, political and psychological costs of war, therefore they gave Hitler what he wanted in order to maintain peace and avoid conflict. The appeasement encouraged Hitler’s aggression as he gained…

Was Appeasement the Right Choice? After having over 17 million deaths and 20 million wounded in the First World War, many countries were not ready to lose any more and thus they had the idea of a collective security, in the 1920’s. This policy did not work out as it required all the countries in the League of Nations to agree on a common policy, which they could not do. As a result of the Collective Security Policy not working, another idea, The Appeasement, was considered. This policy was…

The French and especially British majorly tried to avoid any potential wars after the tragic result of WW1, therefore French and British appeasement of Germany in the inter-war period is slightly justified. In the inter-war years, military spending was made less of a priority for politicians in Britain due to economic problems, demands for spending on social legislation, and particularly the anti-war movement that was occurring at the time. However, Britain became apprehensive when Chancellor of…

fuel the cause of the second World War, such as the Treaty of Versailles, Appeasement and the failure of The League of Nations. The treaty of Versailles was at fault for it’s humiliation of Germany, and for causing a depression in Germany, allowing Germans to follow and listen to Hitler. Appeasement was a cause because of Britain and France seeing the Nazi party’s side of things, and because of the Munich Agreement. Failure of the…

Appeasement can be explained as a policy that settles disputes between countries, it does so by allowing complaints and requests through from the opposing side and with reasonable negotiation and compromise they avoide armed conflict, which would be expensive, cause bloodshed and possibly dangerous to more and more countries. Five forms of appeasement happened in Germany in the 1930s. The first, was when Britain and France accepted the fact that Germany went through rearmament, this then…

When attempting to understand why appeasement was used as a measure to stop war, considering the the ideology of Chamberlain is crucial in terms of understanding the perspective in which he viewed war. Throughout the 1930’s, pacifism had flourished in Britain as almost two and a half million British soldiers had been killed or wounded in the first world war. This act of war, although it happened some 20 years prior, had still been fresh in the minds of the British people. Neville Chamberlain…

Winston Churchill famously said, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last". Appeasement is a policy which concedes to belligerent demands in order to preserve peace. The use of this policy in negotiations with Hitler in the 1930s would be the best example. Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister during this time period, was the primary developer and supporter of this policy. Most British conservatives at the time were in favour of it, alongside contemporary…