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Appeasement

The document discusses appeasement, which is defined as giving in to an aggressor to avoid war. It provides context around the policy of appeasement that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pursued in the late 1930s with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Chamberlain met with Hitler at the 1938 Munich Conference and agreed to Germany annexing the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, despite warnings from Winston Churchill that appeasing Hitler would not prevent war and would only strengthen Germany's military position.

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Appeasement

The document discusses appeasement, which is defined as giving in to an aggressor to avoid war. It provides context around the policy of appeasement that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pursued in the late 1930s with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Chamberlain met with Hitler at the 1938 Munich Conference and agreed to Germany annexing the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, despite warnings from Winston Churchill that appeasing Hitler would not prevent war and would only strengthen Germany's military position.

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All that is necessary for

the triumph of evil is


that good men do
nothing.

- quote usually attributed to Edmund Burke,


18C Irish philosopher

do nothing

Appeasement:
giving in to an aggressor to avoid war.

Timeline: Appeasement

1935: Hitler rebuilds the German army.


This is clearly in violation of the Versailles Treaty signed after World War I.

Appeasement
1938: Hitler annexes the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.
The Sudetenland, filled with ethnic Germans, is a heavy industrial region with many fortifications in the event of conflict.
Many Sudeten Germans welcomed annexation by Germany.

Germany was taking lands and re-arming! It

talk!
Neville Chamberlain was the
British Prime Minister between
1937 and 1940.
Like many in Britain who had lived
through World War I, Chamberlain
was determined to avert another
war.
He traveled to Munich for talks
with Hitler in 1938 and signed an
treaty with Adolf Hitler: Britain and
France accepted that the Czech
region called the Sudetenland
should be ceded to Germany.
Historically, he is mostremembered for the policy of

The Munich Conference:


Hitler meets with Chamberlain.
Consider: what were their motivations?

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Munich Agreement

the physical annexation by Germany of the Sudetenland.

this had military consequences for Czechoslovakia, as most of its


factories and defensive fortifications were located there.
Czechoslovakia was defenseless.

Peace
in our
time
- Neville Chamberlain,
September 1938
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tch?v=Skvw5BqTEO0

One man made his views


on appeasement clear:

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.


You chose dishonor

and you will have war."

Winston
Churchill, in the British
government at the time, warned
the free world about appeasing
Hitler.
He warned against German
rearmament.
He would serve as Prime Minister
during WW2, and lead Britain
through its darkest hours.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping


it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill

According to Dr. Seuss:

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