appeasement policy

• The appeasement policy was the policy used by Britain and France in the 1930s to prevent a war with Hitler by giving in to his demands
• Germany was 'given' Sutendenland in Czechoslovakia from the policy of appeasement by Britain and france
• Neville Chamberlain who was the prime minister of britain from 1937 to 1940 persued the policy of appeasement to prevent war on the scale of world war 1
• Britain and France agreed to give Sudetenland to Germany at Munich conference in September 1938
• The public viewed chamberlain as a hero that had prevented war after the munich agreement was signed
• Opinion poles in britain showed that most of the public did not think that the appeasement would stop hitler
• The policy of appeasement did not stop hitler in the end and germany took over the rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939