Question

Answer the following question.
Define the term appeasement in the context of the causes of the Second World War.

Answer 1

Appeasement is a “diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power to avoid war”. The Anglo-French appeasement policy was largely responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War. Anglo-French failed to intervene during Japan’s attack on China, Italy’s aggression on Abyssinia and Germany’s occupation of Prague. The appeasement policy encouraged Hitler again and again and jeopardized the balance of power in Europe, which led to the Second World War.