appeasement
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- History
- Failure of collective security
- Invasion of Manchuria
- Disarmament Conference
- Anglo-German Naval Agreement
- Abyssinia crisis
- Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
- Spanish Civil War
- Conduct of appeasement, 1937–1939
- ''Anschluss''
- Munich Agreement
- German annexation of Sudetenland
- First Vienna Award and German annexation of Bohemia and Moravia
- German annexation of Lithuania's Klaipėda Region
- Outbreak of World War II and Phoney War
- Attitudes
- Avoiding mistakes of First World War
- Government views
- Military views
- Opposition parties
- Public opinion
- Role of media
- At start of World War II
- Postwar historians
- Postwar politicians
- United States
- Vietnam
- Cuba
- Soviet Union
- Argentina
- Iraq
- Syria
- Iran
- China
- Russia
- North Korea
- Afghanistan
- Criticism
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- Historiography
- External links
thumb|right| Adolf Hitler greets [[British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the beginning of the Bad Godesberg meeting on 24 September 1938 in which Hitler demanded annexation of Czech border areas without delay, leading to the Godesberg Memorandum.]]
Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power with intention to avoid conflict. The term is most often applied to the foreign policy between 1935 and 1939 of the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and most notably Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany. Under British pressure, appeasement of Nazism also played a role in French foreign policy of the period but was always much less popular there than in the United Kingdom.