How Necessary was Britain's policy of Appeasement Towa

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How necessary was Britain's policy of appeasement towards Germany in the 1930s?

Appeasement was the honourable policy of recognising that a country has grievances, which should be addressed so that negotiations can be brought around to avoid war. Britain really wanted to avoid war after the damage and devastation caused to them during World War One.

The first reason why Britain appeased Germany was that she felt that the treaty of Versailles, which was a diktat put on Germany, was too harsh. The treaty of Versailles said that all Germany's colonies were to be take of her and given to the allies to administer. Their army was reduced to 100,000 men who would serve twelve years and they were not allowed any tanks, air force, and submarines and were only allowed a coastal fleet of ships. They were ordered to demilitarise the Rhineland, give back the Polish Corridor and were forbidden to unite with Austria. Germany also had to pay reparations to the allies. This treaty also lost Britain some trade as a result of it as Germany was so weak that she could not afford to trade with Britain.

After the damage and the devastation caused by World War One Britain felt she was unprepared to fight against Germany so she felt that it

Britain also felt that if she did not appease Germany then she would drive the two fascist countries Germany and Italy lead by Hitler and Mussolini in respectively. This would end up in the same position if Russia and Germany joined together and this would be bad news for Britain. At this time Britain's so called Friend had been had been stirring up trouble by signing the Franco-Russian Mutual Assistance Pact with Russia which meant that they would help each other if Germany tired to attack them. This give Germany the perfect excuse to get the Rhineland backs and that's exactly want they did they told Britain that they were doing this and Britain felt that it was fair and appeased them. This was because Britain felt that France were stirring it up and also putting Germany under a lot of pressure, which would be relieved if they put troops back in the Rhineland. The empire said to Britain and warned them that if there was to be another war then they would not help them out they were going to keep well out of it. These were people like P.M Smuts of South Africa.

Did Britain have a choice when it came to Appeasing Germany and Hitler well yes she did but she didn't like it. She ignored many top politicians like Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden who tried to warn her about what a dangers and manipulative man Hitler was but she did not listen she just kept appeasing him time after time. The top politicians started to warn Britain when Hitler started to take over Austria which was know as the Anchules and when he took over the Sudetenland. They warn her that Germany was getting far to strong and that she should be stop but she did not listen.

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