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	Appeasement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Appeasement is a strategic maneuver, based on either pragmatism, fear of war, or moral conviction, that leads to acceptance of imposed conditions in lieu of armed resistance.
		Because Hitler had not taken any obviously non-German territory as of 1938, a war launched by the Allies at this stage would have been a war launched merely on the basis of suspicion, in which Britain would be deeply divided.
		He also compromised with Hitler over the Sudetenland, largely after being advised by his generals that the United Kingdom was in no military position to fight Hitler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Appeasement (3192 words)

	Appeasement, Hitler, and Arafat
		Hitler realized that the British would acquiesce in any expansion to the east and southeast as long as it was done with a show of legality.
		Hitler massed his troops on the borders, the Czech troops occupied the border fortifications, and a crisis ensued.
		Hitler thus won a victory with the aid of the French and the British.
	www.jewishmag.com /60mag/appeasement/appeasement.htm (1061 words)

	Appeasement -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By 1939 Hitler had annexed the very non-German city of (The capital and largest city of the Czech Republic in the western part of the countryi; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th century) Prague - meaning that self-determination could no longer be used to justify his actions.
		He also compromised with Hitler over the (additional info and facts about Sudetenland) Sudetenland, largely after being advised by his generals that the United Kingdom was in no military position to fight Hitler.
		The move by Western consensus to draw the line at this possibility was perceived by some as appeasement by the West towards (additional info and facts about Josef Stalin) Josef Stalin which led to the (A state of political conflict using means short of armed warfare) Cold War.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ap/appeasement.htm (2618 words)

	Lecture 11: Hitler and World War Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hitler's foreign policy aims accorded with the goals of Germany's traditional rulers in that the aim was to make Germany the most powerful state in all of Europe.
		The Spanish Civil War was decisive for Hitler for it was here that he was able to test new weapons and new aircraft which would eventually make their appearance when World War Two finally broke out in 1939.
		Chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini and Daladier, the Prime Minister of France, signed the MÜNICH PACT and agreed that all Czech troops in the Sudetenland would be replaced by German troops.
	www.historyguide.org /europe/lecture11.html (3784 words)

	Interwar Appeasement as Naivete
		Hitler was also seen as someone who was doing a good job in destroying communism and socialism in Germany.
		Hitler somehow convinced the western powers that his sincere mission was one of unification of all German people.
		Hitler knew exactly what he was doing and he also knew exactly how the West would react to what he was doing.
	www.omnibusol.com /wcessay1.html (969 words)

	"Radio Days - Neville Chamberlain" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He attempted to convince Hitler that war was not worth winning because British re-armament and the weak German economy would make Germany vulnerable to a British economic blockade.
		Chamberlain also felt that Hitler would set his sites on the East, an opinion that helped him in his decision to abandon Czechoslovakia during the Munich Crisis.
		Hitler, it seemed, was not to be deterred.
	www.otr.com /neville.html (320 words)

	The Psychology of Appeasement by Russell A. Berman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Psychology of Appeasement by Russell A. Berman
		Appeasement is the political strategy of pursuing compromise with an uncompromising opponent.
		Appeasement is a way to avoid recognizing these costs, but only in the short term, until that time in the future when the costs of defeat become unmistakable.
	www.hooverdigest.org /043/berman.html (1563 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		Hitler's professed aim in Vienna was to study art, especially architecture, but he twice failed, in 1907 and 1908, to get admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts.
		Hitler was a masterly demagogue, and the party soon became a factor in Bavarian politics, mainly attracting the urban petty bourgeoisie.
		Hitler also protected his position by promoting rivalries among his subordinates, and he encouraged Himmler to build a formidable apparatus of terror by means of the SS, the Gestapo, and the concentration camps.
	www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_hitler.html (2992 words)

	BBC - History - The Munich Agreement and Appeasement 1938 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In September 1938 British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, met German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Munich to settle the future of the Sudetenland.
		Hitler's demand that this Czechoslovak land be ceded to Germany was agreed because it was settled by Germans and would therefore be in line with the principle of national self-determination.
		Since coming to power in January 1933, Hitler had systematically sought to revise the terms of the Treaty of Versailles which had deprived Germany of territory, and imposed disarmament and swingeing reparations.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/britain/cen_munich.shtml (170 words)

	Appeasement
		Appeasement is ‘giving a bully what he wants’.
		Appeasement can be defined as ‘giving a bully what he wants’.
		Hitler threatened war, but promised that this was the ‘last problem to be solved’.
	www.johndclare.net /EII3.htm (565 words)

	Munich Agreement
		Hitler threatened to invade Czechoslovakia unless Britain supported Germany's plans to takeover the Sudetenland.
		Adolf Hitler was in a difficult situation but he also knew that Britain and France were unwilling to go to war.
		Benito Mussolini suggested to Hitler that one way of solving this issue was to hold a four-power conference of Germany, Britain, France and Italy.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWmunich.htm (2385 words)

	Appeasement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hitler sought control of the Sudetenland, a region of western Czechoslovakia where most of the Germans lived.
		Chamberlain and Daladier hoped that the agreement would satisfy Hitler and prevent war--or that it would at least prolong the peace until Britain and France were ready for war.
		Hitler broke the Munich Agreement in March 1939 and seized the rest of Czechoslovakia.
	www.puhsd.k12.ca.us /chana/staffpages/Mr._Eichman/worldhistory/wwii/appeasement.htm (292 words)

	The American Spectator
		It must be because appeasement -- treating the likes of Hitler or Arafat, or Stalin or Kim Il-Sung, as benign, rational individuals just like you and me who just want to improve situations -- is a very basic lapse of adult functioning.
		Appeasement seems, unfortunately, to be endemic to democracy.
		If democracy is incorrigibly prone to appeasement, a dysfunctional act that results again and again in war and mass bloodshed, then democracy's ultimate value as a way of life has to be questioned.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7615 (654 words)

	Jonah Goldberg's Goldberg File on National Review Online
		But to characterize the current French position as appeasement seems radically wrong-headed given that they are making pretty much a full-frontal assault on American power and seeking to transform "Europe" into an explicitly anti-American institution dominated by a Franco-German entente.
		Appeasement doesn't stem from cowardice; it stems from arrogance.
		But, as far as I can tell, all of these explanations were used to justify appeasing Hitler 60 years ago and they amount to appeasement of Hussein and his ilk today.
	www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg021903.asp (1572 words)

	Britain and France: A Deadly Appeasement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The compromise in Munich in 1938 was a political, strategic, and moral victory for Hitler.
		Hitler showed that he could take what he liked, and the great powers of the West, could not and would not do anything about it.
		Although Britain's and France's acts of appeasement to the Germans are appalling, the events that were allowed to follow are even more appalling.
	www.omnibusol.com /wcessay2.html (482 words)

	NG BBS - Hitler's appeasement in before WWII
		If the allies had stopped hitler and confronted him while germany was still relatively weak, such as in the mid 30's, hitler might never have been able to or have dared to invade a country such as poland, however that is a big "if".
		As said, the question of was appeasement the right policy and could hitler have been stopped early on with little or no bloodshed is one of the most vilontley contested debates in history.
		Personally i believe Hitler could have been stopped earlier, but i believe that the allied leadership were justified in their stance on appeasement.
	www.newgrounds.com /bbs/topic.php?id=117536 (1429 words)

	Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It focuses on Anglo-German relations from 1918 to 1939, with particular attention paid to the key events from 1937 to 1939, when Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy, while Chamberlain strove to satisfy the 'legitimate' demands made by Hitler in the hope this would prevent war.
		Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement is illustrated and includes primary sources.
		Chamberlain and appeasement (2) The road to war, October 1938 to September 1939; 6.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521000483&print=y (168 words)

	Amazon.com: Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris: Books: Ian Kershaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is also interesting to discover that Hitler had an unusually acute (though uneven) intellect, is rumored to have possesed a 'photographic memory', and was said to have an amazing ability to discuss and quote facts and figures and then subsequently casually weave them into a conversation that witnesses found spellbinding and convincing.
		We learn Hitler was, apparently, responsible for breaking the shackles of Versailles, restoring military pride and making Germany a force "to be reckoned with" whilst his party was seen as corrupt and violent - this in itself, how he was able to separate himself from his party so convincingly, is measure of his political skill.
		What Hitler needed was a military and political victory to reinvigorate his popular appeal and he obtained this by appearing to take by force what was bound to be returned to him.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393320359?v=glance (2709 words)

	Appeasement
		International tension increased when Adolf Hitler began demanding that the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia should be under the control of the German government.
		On 29th September, 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier and Benito Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement which transferred to Germany the Sudetenland, a fortified frontier region that contained a large German-speaking population.
		The PM rose, and in measured, stately English began the breathless tale of his negotiations with Hitler, with the accounts of his flights to Germany, of Lord Runciman's report, etc. He was calm, deliberate, good-tempered and patient.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWappeasement.htm (6781 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and the Roots of Appeasement (Allen Lane History S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Author of Making Friends with Hitler, Ian Kershaw’s detailed account of British attitudes towards Nazi Germany and the ultimately futile attempts through appeasement to avoid military confrontation is a thought-provoking analysis of a chapter in history that many would prefer to forget.
		Later chapters reveal Londonderry’s ultimate disillusionment with Hitler and the bitterly resentful later years of his life spent campaigning to vindicate his record as Air Minister and fruitlessly trying to shake off his acquired reputation as the most prominent Nazi sympathizer in Britain.
		The appeasement politics followed by successive British Governments up to 1939 arose out of the necessity of somehow containing Hitler, whilst hiding one's military weaknesses until after they had been resolved.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0713997176 (2334 words)

	Hitler and Appeasement : The British Attempt to Prevent the Second World War: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hitler, Mussolini and Japan posed a terrible threat to Britain and its empire.
		Stigmatized as "Appeasement", this has often been held to be a bankrupt policy, epitomized by Chamberlain's Munich Agreement in 1938, handing over the Sudetenland.
		Appeasing Hitler shows, in contrast, that many of the government's policies were reasonable and well thought out; nor did ministers ignore rearmament.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /books-plain/1852853697.html (251 words)

	ipedia.com: Appeasement Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Appeasement is a pejorative term for a strategic maneuver, based on either pragmatism, fear of war, or moral conviction, that leads to acceptance of imposed conditions in preference to defending again...
		Appeasement is a pejorative term for a strategic maneuver, based on either pragmatism, fear of war, or moral conviction, that leads to acceptance of imposed conditions in preference to defending against aggressors.
		Although Churchill is credited with having fought the war against Hitler, it was Chamberlain's rebuilding of the depleted British military that gave Churchill and army, navy and air force capable of fighting, although popular myth continues to see Chamberlain as just an appeaser.
	www.ipedia.com /appeasement.html (2223 words)

	Neville Chamberlin on "Appeasement" (1939)
		Appeasement expressed the widespread British desire to heal the wounds of World War I and to correct what many British officials regarded as the injustices of the Versailles Treaty.
		Yet I believe after my talks with Herr Hitler that, if only time were allowed, it ought to be possible for the arrangements for transferring the territory that the Czech Government has agreed to give to Germany to be settled by agreement under conditions which would assure fair treatment to the population concerned.
		However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in war simply on her account.
	www.historyguide.org /europe/munich.html (791 words)

	Appeasement Still Never Works: Hitler In 1938 -- Arafat In 2002
		Arafat rules by ideology, and his ideology is as anti-semitic as was Adolf Hitler's.
		Needless to note, the Hitler Holocaust, which could have potentially been checked in 1938, was prolonged for seven devastating years by Chamberlain's policy of appeasement.
		I can picture the sniveling Chamberlain in Munich, tossing Czechoslovakia to the wolves, as Hitler signed that worthless piece of paper, having already decided that he was going to go to war with England.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/662583/posts (1557 words)

	VDH's Private Papers :: The Fruits of Appeasement
		If the Clintonian brand of appeasement reflected both a deep-seated tolerance for Middle Eastern extremism and a reluctance to wake comfortable Americans up to the danger of a looming war, he was not the only one naive about the threat of Islamic fascism.
		The consensus for appeasement that led to September 11, albeit suppressed for nearly two years by outrage over the murder of 3,000, has reemerged in criticism over the ongoing reconstruction of Iraq and George Bush's prosecution of the War on Terror.
		Military historians might argue that, given the enormity of our task in Iraq—liberating 26 million from a tyrant and implanting democracy in the region—the tragic loss of more than 500 Americans in a year's war and peace was a remarkable sign of our care and expertise in minimizing deaths.
	www.victorhanson.com /articles/hansonSpr04.html (3651 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Appeasement Then and Now by Jamie Glazov
		My own view is that the word is retrievable from the ninth circle of hell, but that, as a policy, appeasement has been practised at one time or another by all Great Powers, including our own.
		Because of the courageous efforts of Lindbergh and America First, the United States stayed out of the war until Hitler threw the full force of his war machine against Stalin.
		An element of Islamic fanatics hates us like a small minority of fascists, Nazis and militarists hated us, and they are in a war for the majority of hearts and minds of their own populations in a way Hitler, Mussolini, or Tojo were as well.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5028 (6348 words)

	Appeasement
		There were many reasons why Britain 'appeased' Hitler in the 1930s.
		Historians have ascribed every possible motive to Chamberlain - sheer abject cowardice, that he was duped by Hitler, that it was a noble attempt to prevent bloodshed, that he was buying time for Britain to re-arm...
		Many British people agreed with Hitler that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair.
	www.johndclare.net /RoadtoWWII4.htm (706 words)

	United Press International - International - Anglosphere: What were they thinking? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Similarly, we look at events such as the Munich appeasement of Hitler of 1938 with 20-20 hindsight.
		We ask "How could Britain and France betray Czechoslovakia, the only democratic state in the region, to a thug like Hitler?" But that's not the way the participants at Munich, or the consensus of media in London and Paris framed the issues in their minds.
		In leaning on the Czechs to make concessions that vitiated the ability of their state to defend itself, the British and French diplomats saw themselves as preventing a war by forcing a reasonable compromise on both sides.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20020830-060155-4482r (1423 words)

	The Gallery of 'Bush = Hitler' Allusions
		Hitler claimed the supremacy of the Aryan race, Bush calls for the supremacy of US democracy run by its Multinationals, as exemplified by Paul Bremer of Iraq with the likes of Halliburton and Bechtel.
		As in Hitler's case, the first thing he did was to surround himself with a clique of con artists such as himself, men obsessed with the intimidating power of force.
		Hitler, it will be remembered, routinely ignored his military, other world leaders, and the clergy...
	semiskimmed.net /bushhitler.html (7311 words)

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