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Appeasement Flashcards

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What is appeasement?

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

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Why it was tried by the Allies?

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

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Why it failed 5 times -

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

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The 5 occasions of appeasement in order:

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  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
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