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Because they had the belief that, not unreasonably, Peace was preferable to war. If Hitler could be appeased then there would not be a conflict. With Hindsight its obvious that Hitler wasn't going to be persuaded to act other than in the way he did. In fact the peceived weaknesses of the western leaders only encouraged him further, but then they didn't know that at the time.
The leaders of Europe (and of England in particular) desperately wanted to avoid having to fight another world war. They well remembered WW I which was horrible beyond belief, and which had ended only in 1918, which was really not that long before the rise of Hitler in the 1930's. They never wanted to have to go through something like WW I again. Therefore, they hoped that they could make a deal with Hitler which would make him happy, and avoid war. Of course, as we now know, these leaders completely misjudged Hitler, and the consequences were very tragic.

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