Appeasement Interpretations [H1.5]

Question 1

What is the Popular Majority view?

Answer 1

From 1937-38

• People approved and supported of Neville Chamberlain and The Munich Agreement
• Halifax supported him

Question 2

What is the Guilty Men View?

Answer 2

From 1939-48

• Appeasement did not keep peace
• Britain defenceless, gave into the axis powers in 1931

Question 3

What is the Orthodox view?

Answer 3

Miscalculated and misjudged Hitler”

• From 1948-60s
• War ends in 1945
• Churchill loses election
• Churchill writes ‘The Gathering Storm’

Question 4

What is the Academic Revisionist View?

Answer 4

“Rehabilitating Neville Chamberlain”

• From 1960-90s
• Chamberlain did the best he could
• Historians questioned Churchill’s views
• Revisionism raised, which is where new evidence comes to light
• Appeasement owned Britain time to build up military

Question 5

What is the Academic Counter Revisionist view?

Answer 5

“Least responsible”

• From 1990s-2000s
• Chamberlain had no choice