Question

Historians often use the word “appeasement” to describe European foreign policy in the 1930s with regards to Hitler’s Germany. Explain what is meant by the term “appeasement” and describe THREE specific examples of it in the 1930s.

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Answer 1

Appeasement in a foreign policy context is a diplomatic policy of making concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict. Examples include Britain and France giving the Sudetenland to Germany in 1938, Chamberlain’s promise to give Germany all the areas where more than 50 per cent of the population was Germany, in 1938 and Austrian Chancellor Kurt's compliance to release imprisoned Austrian Germans and allow them to participate in the government, also in 1938