britain’s policy of appeasement

• Appeasement


  Giving into demand to keep the peace
• Neville Chamberlain


  • British prime minister closely associated with the policy of appeasement
• Arguments for appeasement


  • Made Germany feel it was being listened to regarding its grievances in relations to the Treaty of Verasines
  • Germany was disarmed, losing land, paying reparations
  • Avoids war by use of negotiation rather than action
  • Horrors of WWI still in people's mind
  • Anything that could avoid it happening again should be followed
  • Britain's economy was still recovering due to 1930s Depression
  • War is costly
• Arguments against appeasement


  • Made Britain look weak - always appeared to give in
  • Suggested that Britain was prepared to betray other countries to keep Hitler happy
  • Undermined Britain's key role as a permanent member of the League of Nations
  • Each act of appeasement (the Rhineland, Anschluss) allowed Hitler to become stronger-politically, economically, territorially
• Britain's policy of appeasement
• Britain's policy of appeasement

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