Appeasement

Question 1

What is appeasement?

Answer 1

…is when you give in to an aggressor to keep temporary peace

Question 2

Why it was tried by the Allies?

Answer 2

They didn’t want to be the first country to start the war.

Question 3

Why it failed 5 times -

Answer 3

It failed because it gave the Axis Confidence to make them feel like they could do anything.

Question 4

The 5 occasions of appeasement in order:

Answer 4

1. Hitler announces that he will no longer follow the Treaty of Versailles - March 1935
2. Hitler is allowed to take the Rhineland - March 7, 1936
3. The Anschluss is allowed to occur (the uniting of Austria with Germany) - September 1938
4. Hitler is allowed to take the Sudetenland - September 1938
5. Hitler is allowed to take all of Czechoslovakia - October 1938