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Appeasement

Appeasement. I. Attempts at Appeasement. Great Britain and France followed a policy of appeasement – a policy of giving aggressor nations what they wanted in order to avoid war.

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Appeasement

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  1. Appeasement

  2. I. Attempts at Appeasement Great Britain and France followed a policy of appeasement – a policy of giving aggressor nations what they wanted in order to avoid war. 1938 Munich Conference – Great Britain and France allowed Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for a promise to make no further territorial demands

  3. Italy and Germany formed the Rome-Berlin Axis in 1938 Germany and Soviet Union formed a non-aggression pact in 1939 1938, Neville Chamberlain proclaimed “We have peace for our time.”

  4. II. The Neutrality Acts • US attempted to avoid war • Congress passed the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937 • Laws barred the transportation or sale of arms to warring nations and banned loans to nations at war outside the Western Hemisphere

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