REVISION IGCSE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY: APPEASEMENT. Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.

1. APPEASEMENT
IGCSE HISTORY
REVISION

2. DEFINITION
Appeasement was the policy of giving in to the demands of an
aggressor in the hope of avoiding conflict.
In this case, the aggressor was Hitler.

3. Question 1
Which two countries had appeasement as
their foreign policy towards Germany and
Italy in the late 1930’s??

4. Answer 1
Britain and France.

5. Question 2
Which political leader is typically seen as
the embodiment of appeasement?

6. Answer 2
British prime minister Neville Chamberlain.

7. Question 3
State four major reasons for the
policy of appeasement.

8. Answer 3
Britain was not ready for war.
Fear of communism among the Western European powers.
Memories of the horrors of the First World War.
Chamberlain trusted Hitler’s word.

9. Question 4
Why was 1938 a decisive turning point
for the policy of appeasement?

10. Answer 4
Without first consulting the Czechs, Chamberlain and the French leader
Daladier handed Hitler the Sudetenland.

11. Important
British appeasement of Hitler actually began before Chamberlain, and
it remained popular with the majority of the British people right up to
1939.