Why is appeasement in the 1930s animportant case study for today?

Giving candy toa child to stop

them fromcrying, givingterritory to a

dictator to stophim form waging

war. Is it thesame thing?

Who in their right mind believes we should even try toplacate the monsters responsible for the atrocities ofSeptember 11th, 2001?Terrorists see negotiations as a sign of weakness and alack of resolve. Though the 'peace protestors' mean well,they... are the same type of people who sought to appeaseAdolf Hitler.http://www.9-11justice.org/

CHURCHILL IN HOUSE OF COMMONS FEB1938

The Prime Minister and his colleagues haveentered upon another and a new policy. The oldpolicy was an effort to establish the rule of law inEurope, and build up through the League ofNations effective deterrents against theaggressor. Is it the new policy to come to termswith the totalitarian Powers in the hope that bygreat and far-reaching acts of submission, notmerely in sentiment and pride, but in materialfactors, peace may be preserved.

A firm stand by France and Britain, under the authority ofthe League of Nations, would have been followed by theimmediate evacuation of the Rhineland without theshedding of a drop of blood; and the effects of that mighthave enabled the more prudent elements of the GermanArmy to gain their proper position, and would not havegiven to the political head of Germany the enormousascendancy which has enabled him to move forward.Austria has now been laid in thrall, and we do not knowwhether Czechoslovakia will not suffer a similar attack.

You have only to look at the map to see that nothing we could docould possibly save Czechoslovakia from being overrun by theGermans. - Chamberlain, writing to his sister in 1938.

REASONS FOR APPEASEMENTSome British people approved of Hitler's policies.

The British people hoped that a strong Germany wouldstop the growth of Communist Russia.

Many people felt that events in Europe were notBritain's business.

Many British people wanted peace.

Many British people agreed with Hitler that the Treatyof Versailles was unfair.

"The Reckoning."

"PAN-GERMAN:'MONSTROUS, I CALL IT.

WHY, IT'S FULLY AQUARTER OF WHAT WE

SHOULD HAVE MADETHEM PAY, IF WE'D

WON.'"

In the immediate aftermathof the war, European nations

had little sympathy forGermany. Over time,

however, a consensusdeveloped that Germany hadbeen punished too harshly.