Question

What is meant by the term ‘Appeasement’?

Answer 1

1. The term ‘Appeasement’ refers to the diplomatic policy of making concessions to an aggressive power to avoid conflict.
2. In the 1930s, it details Britain and France’s operations against Hitler’s Nazi Germany. 
3. These countries let Germany break the Treaty of Versailles by re-arming, re-militarising the Rhineland, and annexing Austria and Czechoslovakia to satisfy Hitler and avert war.
4. This policy failed since it merely increased fighting and didn’t prevent World War II.