Question

Why did the Allied Powers choose a policy of appeasement when dealing with Hitler before the start of World War II?

Great Britain and France agreed with Hitler's need for expansion

Appeasement was seen as the way to maintain peace in Europe

Great Britain and France feared Czechoslovakian expansion

Appeasement was the way to restore the continent's military balance.

Answer 1

B.
The Allies chose to appease Hitler and Nazi Germany prior to WWII strictly to avoid another conflict. The pain from the First World War was still felt by every nation it touched, and the Allied Powers desperately did not want to have another conflict like that. So they stood by and watched as Hitler expanded Germany’s reach, until he invaded Poland, a country which Britain and France had pledged military support to if Germany had invaded. That was the spark that woke the Allies up to Hitler’s belligerence and started the Second World War.