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What was the policy of appeasement, and why did it fail?
Original Khojo Papers practice question — not from a past board paper.
Answer
Appeasement was the policy, chiefly of Britain and France, of giving way to the demands of Hitler and Mussolini in the hope of avoiding another war. It failed because each concession convinced Hitler that the democracies would not fight, so his demands grew; the Munich Agreement of 1938 was followed within six months by the seizure of the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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Explanation
The memory of the losses of the First World War explains much of the policy.
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