How effective was the appeasement policy adopted by Britain and France?

Answer 1

France consulted Britain and lodged protests with the League. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said that Britain lacked the forces to back its guarantees to France and that public opinion would not allow it. In Britain it was thought that the Germans were merely walking into "their own back yard". Hugh Dalton, a Labour Party Member of Parliament who usually advocated stiff resistance to Germany, said that neither the British people nor Labour would support either military or economic sanctions. In the Council of the League, only the Soviet Union proposed sanctions against Germany. Hitler was invited to negotiate. He proposed a non-aggression pact with the Western powers. When asked for details he did not reply. Hitler's occupation of the Rhineland had persuaded him that the international community would not resist him and put Germany in a powerful strategic position.

Answer 2

Because it was ultimately a bid to reach a peaceful understanding with Germany. The major powers were anxious to abort any German influence over Eastern Europe. While the countries of this region were equally anxious, their interests rested elsewhere--unrestricted barter of agricultural products for that of German manufactured goods.

Answer 3

I don't think the French did much of anything. The Britons tried to build up their force and make more planes and armament and ammunition. The period after the Munich Conference bought the Brits time to prepare for war and they also had to get a new Prime Minister because Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain died. Winston Churchill took over and increased military readiness.
The Prime Minister Chamberlain signed a nonaggression pact with Adolf Hitler not realizing Hitler had no intention of not bombing England or invading the island of the UK. France did the same thing. Hitler had them first on his list to be attacked within weeks of the signing of the nonaggression pact.

In September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland. After that he went after France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway. The Brits tried to help France but they were not successful in warding off the Nazis. Some of the French escaped with the British soldiers to England.

Soon Hitler had his Luftwaffe dropping bombs on London and other places. He also sent U Boats to sink merchant ships and Royal Navy ships. The rest is history.

Answer 4

The policy of appeasement by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the French President maintained the idea that if they appease Hitler he would leave them alone. They had no clue how obsessive and evil Hitler really was. They had no idea about his Final Solution and genocide and killing of other innocent people he did not like.

Answer 5

We now know that it was totally ineffective because Hitler ignored all the agreements that he made and carried on with his expansionist policies. However, many people at the time thought that appeasement was the right course of action.

Answer 6

The appeasement policy of the French and Brits was to allow Hitler and the Nazi Germans to take the Sudeten land back into German possession. They did agree to that term. They did however receive a written promise signed by Hitler that he would not invade or take any more lands that were not originally part of Germany. So they thought he would leave France and England alone. He had been fooling them. So their idea of appeasing a hostile enemy to protect themselves from the enemy did not work. Not all Brits and French liked this policy. In fact, the leaders of both countries were basically dismissed from their positions.

Answer 7

I would imagine it was because of the great numbers of soldiers which these two countries lost fighting Germany in World War 1, and they were desperate to avoid a repetition of it.