Appeasement

Appeasement is a diplomatic policy of meeting political demands to a possibly-aggressive power to avoid conflict.[1]

The term was used especially for the foreign policy of the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy[2] between 1935 and 1939. It was supported by most people there and in France, most notably under Édouard Daladier, because people feared another world war.

References

  1. ↑ Appeasement – World War 2 on History Archived 4 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Robert Mallett, "The Anglo‐Italian war trade negotiations, contraband control and the failure to appease Mussolini, 1939–40." Diplomacy and Statecraft 8.1 (1997): 137–67.


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