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appeasement

Historically, the conciliatory policy adopted by the British government, in particular under Neville Chamberlain, towards the Nazi and fascist dictators in Europe in the 1930s in an effort to maintain peace (see United Kingdom: history 1914–45, policy of appeasement). It was strongly opposed by Winston Churchill, but the Munich Agreement of 1938 was almost universally hailed as its justification. Appeasement ended when Germany occupied Bohemia–Moravia in March 1939.

War was declared after Germany attacked Poland in September 1939, the beginning of World War II.



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