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Appeasement 

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What is Appeasement?

  The definition of appeasement is Appeasement means giving in to a bully

Also it is the policy of giving in to the demands of a

hostile or aggressive power in an attempt to keep

peace. 

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Background of Appeasement Appeasement means giving into someone eventhough you know something

bad could happen. This is what caused world war 2.Hitler wanted more land and bussinesses for his country (Germany). So he

decided he wanted to take over Czechoslavkia. Czechoslovakia didn't want

this to happen, but they were to busy arguing with another country. So,Czechoslokia went to the big powers to decide what would happen to them.

Neville Chamberlain the leader of Great Britain at the time flew over toMunich to have a meeting with Hitler. He wanted to compromise with him, the

compromise was, for Germany not to start a war with Great Britain and for

Germany to leave Czechsolovakia alone. Hitler signed the agreement

and Chamberlain flew back to Great Britain to tell the population the good

news. Meanwhile Hitler was already planning on taking of Czechosolakia, andthats exactly what he did. Eventhough he 'promised' Chamberlain he wouldn't.

Chamberlain let Hitler of and gave into him. This meant that Hitler thought he

could do what he wanted, what would make him stop there. He carried on

taking other countrys until finally the 'big powers' started to fight back. This

was the start of world war 2. 

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Reasons for Appeasement.

 • Concession to Germany were justified

•   fear of war understandable

•   Soviet Union was bad a threat as Germany • Gave Britain time to re-arm as Britains army was to small

and weak.

• Also instead of spending money on re-arming they spent the

money on housing and social care. • many people wanted peace among the nations

• France didnt want to go to war and britain couldnt fight Germany

alone

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Reasons against appeasement 

• Many people said it didn't work properly and if they wouldhave told him in the first place not to take over any countrys

and comprimised with him, then maybe world war 2 could

have been avoided.

• Appeasement - basically means showing the weakness of your

country by giving into bigger powers.

• Because Great Britain gave into Germany and allowed him to

take over Czechoslovakia he carried on taking over more

countrys and nobody was stopping him. They were basically

letting Hitler walk all over them. Eventhough they did stophim, it was to late as damage had already been done. 

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Historical interpretations of 

Appeasement (Traditional, Revisionist,

Counter-Revisionist)Traditional historian (1940's-1950's)

That appeasement was a bad idea

Cato

Revisionist historian (1950's)

That it was the best they could do at the time

AJTaylor

Counter-revisionist (1990's)The best soloution they but could have done better McDonough 

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Links for further reading

http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII_19_Reasons_for_appeaseme

nt.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/C001155/background/appeasement.htm