The policy of Appeasement |

Appeasement is a policy of giving in to demands now in return for a future promise. This policy can best be seen in the events leading to the start of World War II dealing with Adolf Hitler’s desire to control the Sudetenland, which was a part of Czechoslovakia. Hitler had been annexing land in Europe. He had moved his troops into the Rhineland, which was supposed to be demilitarized, and he had taken over Austria....

Appeasement is a policy of giving in to demands now in return for a future promise. This policy can best be seen in the events leading to the start of World War II dealing with Adolf Hitler’s desire to control the Sudetenland, which was a part of Czechoslovakia. Hitler had been annexing land in Europe. He had moved his troops into the Rhineland, which was supposed to be demilitarized, and he had taken over Austria. He then wanted to take over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia because many Germans lived there. The leaders of Great Britain and France, Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier, met with Hitler and Benito Mussolini to discuss this demand. An agreement was reached in 1938 known as the Munich Pact. In this agreement, the Allies allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland in return for Hitler's promise to take no more land in the future. The leaders of Great Britain and France were hoping to avoid war by giving in to Hitler’s demands. This policy failed when Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939.