Was Appeasement The Right Policy?

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Was Appeasement the Right Policy?

The question raised is whether Appeasement was the Right Policy. The meaning of appeasement for the British was giving Hitler what he wanted, so he wouldn’t rebel against the Treaty of Versailles & go to war. They believed that giving Hitler what he wanted, will make him stop and all his demands would be stopped. But we find that, this was not the case at all but instead, the complete opposite. Neville Chamberlain was one of the first people to believe in the act of appeasement and how it might help most of the European countries to be safe from Hitler and the growing Nazi Germany. A quote he had said was “This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the …show more content…

Hitler had written about his aims and what he wanted since the 1920’s, the Allies could have been warned or payed attention to Hitler’s rising demands. Neville had said that “Hitler was someone who was truthful, therefore someone you can appease” but that is not what happened. He wasn’t used to people breaking promises and trust, so when Hitler had broken the promise, he was surprised and shocked. He would have been in a situation, that the entire country was not safe. In the beginning, Britain had thought that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh for the Germans, so that is why they had agreed with the idea of appeasement but now Britain had realized that he was lying, they couldn’t trust him to invade even more countries and they would defend Poland if Hitler invaded. The public had the idea that Europe was safe and peaceful, and there wouldn’t be war. Some people say that if the Allied Nations, such as the US got involved with the appeasement, then World War 2 might have been averted. Others say, it was Britain and France shouldn’t have given too much freedom since they more they gave to the country, the more they had demanded. Germany was allowed to make agreements with other countries, which they were not allowed to do according to the treaty. Italy and Germany had made a “Pact of Steel” which was an alliance made to protect and help each other during a time of War. This made Germany very powerful against the other countries. One of the reasons why Britain didn’t want to go to war is because of the Great Depression and the fact that it was affecting the economy. But the fact that Germany was suffering the most because of the depression, so Britain had a better advantage over Germany. By appeasing Hitler, they just took away their advantage, which helped them grow much stronger than before. Some people even say that the act of appeasement was

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