Neville Chamberlain's European Policy

WWII because you can’t bargain with people like Hitler or ISIS, in today’s world. The enemy will always win because appeasement means you want peace but the enemy doesn’t so you will have to make an agreement where you give more than you get. Groups or people like ISIS don’t need your approval to invade countries and kill innocent people in the process so an in order to convince them to stop you would need to give them what they want so there really is no point because the enemy comes out on top. Appeasement isn’t a good idea because it doesn’t really achieve peace it just sometimes, temporarily, stops or slows down the enemy. All appeasement leads to is the enemy getting what they want in order to try to prevent war. ISIS for example, a policy of appeasement with them would mean giving them what they want and on their terms and at the end the most likely wouldn’t keep up their end of the agreement anyway. Appeasement will lead to lose of power because we would be giving the enemy the power. In the end we can all see how appeasement doesn’t work no matter what the time period is or who is involved. You can’t make a deal with the enemy who won’t listen and won’t keep their end of the deal, it just won’t work. Appeasement encouraged Hitler prior to WWII by showing how he was getting exactly what he wanted and because they showed how they feared Hitler and Germany. We can learn from past mistakes and see that appeasement today will only lead to the enemy getting what they want…

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The year of 1938 was a scary time for the majority of European people due to the threat of Nazi Germany. Under the control of Adolf Hitler, Germany was expanding its borders and was gaining power and support of the German people. The League of Nations was created to stop another massive war from happening. Many believed that it was the League’s responsibility to deal with Hitler’s aggressive stance on taking over nations. The problem was that the League could not agree with an action to stop…

The Paralysis of the West The disaster at Munich was as a result of Neville Chamberlain’s naivety. In 1938, Chamberlain met with Adolf Hitler and agreed to hold talks with the French and even convinced the Czechs to stand down. However Chamberlain failed to invite Czechoslovakia at the Munich talks because he was naive to believe Hitler’s assurance that he had no more territorial ambitions in Europe. The West did not mount a more determined challenge against the Germans in the 1930s because at…

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…

of his family and friends, and even that of a lion named Aslan. There was a profound strain on each Prime Minister during World War Two. Britain had to rely especially on its allies, America and Canada, to protect its citizens, mainly children. Furthermore, this strain is seen through Chamberlain’s foreign policy in response to Hitler’s advances, the relationship between Canada and America 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…

Declaration For some European powers at the time, The Munich Agreement and the Anglo-German Declaration was considered to have achieved peace in our time. Unfortunately, the great claims of Neville Chamberlain did not come true. These agreements only delayed the evitable between the great European powers and allowed Hitler to gather more territory with relative ease. This document between the powers of Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Italy outlined the steps and conditions under which…

In Chamberlain’s eyes, the relationship with Italy was already bearing fruit and needed to be made permanent with the ratification of the agreement. On November 2nd, he brought the motion before Parliament, and claimed that Italy had fulfilled their obligations in Spain by withdrawing 10,000 troops. Arthur Greenwood argued for the opposition that the 10,000 troops were inconsequential and that it was a, “trick to play for time and to prolong the war.” A Conservative critique of the opposition…

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…