Appeasement Dbq Essay

The beginning of the 1920s started out peacefully, but by the end of the decade and throughout the 1930s, signs of war were starting to show. Although World War I had ended in victory for the Allies and post - war objectives by the victorious nations had been met and successfully maintained, these underlying causes created the longest and bloodiest war the world had seen. Countries such as Germany, Italy, and Japan started taking aggressive actions. The British Prime Minister Chamberlain suggested that the best way to deal with Hitler was by making a policy of appeasement. European nations waited for the worst before forcing Hitler to halt his invasive actions. Therefore, Hitler’s invasions, the League of Nations, and their appeasement were

This should have told the British and French that if Hitler would defy the Treaty of Versailles on account of the occupation of the Rhine, he would also take Austria, and ignore the borders created after the German defeat in the World War I. After the victory in the World War I, Democratic nations pledged to defend new nations and their borders and make the world fit for more democratic governments. The allied nations split over many policies, failed to properly direct newly made democratic governments. Document 5, states, “we shall save the peace of Europe for a generation.” This demonstrates that the large nations were more concerned about keeping out of war rather than protecting. They believed that such trivial manners aren’t worth getting into war. This is also prevalent in document 4, which showed that at the Munich Conference, the Big Four agreed to give Sudetenland to Germany. According to Shirer, the Europeans were happy because war was avoided, the Czechs however, were not. Document 8, it states that “other countries could have intervened by armed force in 1933 to overthrow Hitler when he had come to power” this is saying that if many countries had worked together in the beginning when Hitler first took power (and took over Czechoslovakia) they would have been able to stop him from gaining power. It is clear that many things could have been done by other countries to stop Hitler on his rise to power. World War II spread too many countries because countries were unable to handle their many diplomatic issues such as the countries’ aggression appeasement and collective security. Many things could have been done if countries would have worked together to stop Hitler when he first rose to power. Because of appeasement, many countries simply gave in without a fight, fights which could have weakened Hitler and forced his army to crumble. If many countries had not had their collective security allies, there would have been a harder