appeasement
Hitler broke the Munich Agreement and invaded Czechoslovakia.
The policy of appeasement refers to Hitler saying at the Munich conference that he would not invade any more of Europe after Czechoslovakia. It failed, obviously.
Munich Agreement
'Appeasement'.
Neville Chamberlaine
The policy of appeasement.
Prior to World War II, Britain tried a strategy of appeasement with Hitler. It didn't work, and Hitler ended up taking Austria and Czechoslovakia.
Appeasement was the policy of European democracies that aimed to avoid war with the dictatorships of Germany and Italy. Churchill was unusual in believing that Germany menaced freedom and democracy and should be resisted over Czechoslovakia.
Most of the countries that the Nazis acquired were acquired through military might that was not appeased by the future Allied Powers. The only case of active appeasement was when Nazi Germany was allowed to take control of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. There was also passive appeasement when Nazi Germany retook the Rhineland and Saarland buffer regions as well as the Anschluss with Austria. Some of the countries that the Nazis did not acquire through appeasement include: Poland, the remainder of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Monaco, etc.
Most of the countries that the Nazis acquired were acquired through military might that was not appeased by the future Allied Powers. The only case of active appeasement was when Nazi Germany was allowed to take control of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. There was also passive appeasement when Nazi Germany retook the Rhineland and Saarland buffer regions as well as the Anschluss with Austria. Some of the countries that the Nazis did not acquire through appeasement include: Poland, the remainder of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Monaco, etc.
It was the 1938 Agreement that gave the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany. Called an act of appeasement it was supposed to insure "peace in our time".