A P P E A S E ME N T

• What was Appeasement?• Arguments FOR Appeasement

• Arguments AGAINST Appeasement• Appeasement in action

Appeasement basically means ‘giving in to a bully’.

This was done to avoid another devastating World

war.

Vs

Chamberlain was the Prime Minister during the time of Appeasement. He was the

main person behind the policy of Appeasement. He is famous

for returning from Germany with ‘peace in our time’ after

making a deal with Hitler over the Munich Crisis.

Churchill was the main opponent of Appeasement as he saw Hitler as an aggressive

dictator that needed to stopped. He strongly believed

that Appeasement was wrong, but he was eventually proved

right when Hitler invaded Poland.

A r g u me nt s F O R

A p p e a s eme n t

Britain and France were not in a

position to fight Germany

People wanted to avoid another war.

Many saw that Stalin and Communist

Russia was the REAL threat

Some People actually sympathised with Hitler

and Germany

Gave Britain time to re-arm

A r g u me n t s A G A I N S T

A p p e a s e me n t

Appeasement allowed Hitler to think that he could get away with

anything.

Failing top stop Hitler re-arming

allowed Germany to grow stronger

Millions of people were abandoned

by France and Britain.

Stalin became more suspicious of

France and Britain.

G E R MA N R E A R MA ME N T

1933

R E -MI L I T A R I S A T I O N

O F T H E R H I N E L A N D 1936

A N S C H L U S S : ( A U S T R I A &

G E R MA N Y R E U N I T E D ) 1938

A G A I N ST T H E

T R E A T Y O F

V E R S A IL L E S

“I demand a small area of Czechoslovakia ….. What’s that? I can have it! Ok I change my mind, I want

an even bigger area called the Sudetenland. I’ll invade if I don’t get what I want!"

“Ok, you can have the small area of

Czechoslovakia….What? You want the Sudetenland or you’ll invade? Ok, but it

stops at Poland!

CHECHOSLOVAKIA

1938/39