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REASON FOR THE APPEASEMENT POLICY

At the time appeasement was being followed, there seemed lots of very good reason in its favour and the appeasement were convinced that their policy was right.

1) It was thought essential to avoid war, which was likely to be even more devasting than ever before the great fear was the bombing of defenseless cities Britain still in the throes of the economic expenses of a major war.

2) Many felt that Germany and Italy had genuine grievances Italy had been cheated at Versailles and Germany had treated too harshly.

3) Since the League of Nations seemed to be helpless chamberlain believed that the only way to settle dispute was by personal contact between leaders. In this way, he thought he would be able to conduct control and civilize Hitler and Mussolini into the bargain and bring them to respect international law.

4) Economic co-operation between Brittan and Germany would be good for them. If Britain helped the Germany economic to recover, Germany’s internal violence would die down.

5) Fear of communist Russia was great especially among British conservatives. Many of them believed that the communist threat was greater then the danger from Hitler some British politicians were willing to ignore the unpleasant feature would be a buffer against communist expansion west wards.

6) Underlying all these feeling was the belief that Britain ought not to take any military action in case it led to a full scale war for which Britain was not strong enough to fight a war against more then one country at the same time. The U.S.A was still in favour of isolation and France was weak and divided Britain would become and more this would deter aggression or so chamberlain hoped.

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