Great Britain and other powers primarily appeased Germany to avoid World War II. The explanation of this statement requires an analysis of the economic; political, and militaristic situations, which Britain, France and America were suffering from. The British policy of appeasement was implemented because the national public opinion was that war should be avoided at all costs, people down played the importance of having a strong military as they had faith that the League of nations would prevent any war, the weakness of the British armed forces and the forgiving relationship between Hitler and Chamberlain. The objective of American appeasement towards Germany was to secure the peace, stability and expansion of international trade and to relieve Germany from the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles allowing German recovery. Western powers also appeased Germany, as they feared communism and believed that Germany could thwart a communist uprising.

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There was a strong British belief that the League of Nations was capable of solving all international conflict peacefully without force, and this combined with the pacifist British public opinion made the policy of appeasement seem possible. Under the agreement, the League had the power to impose economic sanctions and combine the powers of each nation to remove an aggressor. The League needed the support of the major world powers to have any power over other countries, and by 1937 only France, Britain and Russia of the major powers were still members. There was a widespread feeling in Britain, and in the American Senate that the Treaty had punished Germany way to harshly for loosing the war, which also justified American appeasement towards Germany. Many of the American Senators reacted to the treaty in a very negative way, denoting it as being "unbelievably unjust" and successfully removing America from the League of Nations. Next, a plan of economic appeasement towards Germany was created. This appeasement was in the form of the Dawes Plan (1924), which arranged easier terms for reparations and allowed a huge new loan, and the Young plan (1929), which reduced the reparations sum from 6.6 billion pounds to 2 billion, which had to be paid off by 1988. American interests in appeasement for Germany did not only lie in sympathy towards the harsh treaty, but also were in response to the economic obstacles created by German reparations. John Maynard Keynes, who was an ex-member of the British delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference, wrote a book called 'The Economic Consequences of the Peace'. His trenchant criticism of the peace treaty of Versailles with Germany in this book made him famous overnight and effectively undermined public support for the treaty. In this publication he noted that the reparations enforced on Germany would have great economic repercussions, including the de-stabilisation of the German economy, damaging of international trade, and a worldwide economic crisis. When these predictions were proved correct there was even more public support for German appeasement and a revision of the treaty.

There was a widespread belief that appeasing Germany to allow it to be militarily strong could thwart a communist uprising. Many from Britain and France were obsessed by the menace of Communism, which

Germany did not share the same views on conscription as Britain did, and the German army, including conscripts, had a to

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