As Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy launched themselves into increasingly aggressive military and foreign policies during the mid-1930s, the other Western nations hoped to avert a crisis by negotiating with these countries. The policy of "appeasement" was most evident, and most tragic, when representatives of Britain and France sat down with Hitler to discuss the fate of Czechoslovakia in 1938 at the Munich conference. The end result was the eventual Nazi conquest of all of Czechoslovakia, despite Hitler's promises to the contrary.

Britain and France were so afraid of war that they did everything in their power to avoid it except for the one thing that could have; confront Hitler early. Britain and France allowed Hitler time to prepare for the war. While Neville Chamberlain was busy fighting for his claim for "peace for our time," Hitler was rearming his country and preparing his troops. If Britain and France had taken early action when the Sudeten crisis arose, they might have been able to conquer Germany at a point in time when they did not have the ability to withstand an attack. Unfortunately, both countries were blinded by an overwhelmin

Appeasement during the 1930's was based on an assumption that at some point Hitler would be satisfied with the concessions awarded to him. Unfortunately, what British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was not aware was the fact that Hitler would never back down. Every time that Chamberlain granted a set of concessions, Hitler had another waiting for him upon his arrival to Munich. Chamberlain did not understand what Hitler was looking for and consequently could not satisfy him. Hitler sought after vengeance for Germany because of the treaty of Versailles, and furthermore domination of all of Eastern Europe. Hitler was once quoted saying, "Our opponents are like little worms: I saw them at Munich." This should have been an obvious sign that Hitler was not interested in reaching an agreement with Britain or France, but actually conquering them both.

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Fear of war, was the outstanding cause for Britain and France to turn to the Appeasement policy. Unfortunately, the only true way to prevent the war would have been to confront Hitler before the annexation of Czechoslovakia. Therefore, preventing Hitler from gaining such a large sense of power as well as preventing any further growth of his army.

g fear of another world war. It was believed at the time that if Germany were given Czechoslovakia that it might 'appease' them and therefore prevent or suspend the outbreak of war.

There were many signs that Germany planned to go to war whether they were given concessions or not. First, Germany began rearmament some time in the early 1930's in direct violation to the treaty of V

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