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appeasements always (sometimes or never) make an aggressor more aggressive?
“Appeasement was a policy that fed on emotions as well as intellect, at
least with Chamberlain. The British prime minister had lost his beloved cousin
in World War I. From then on, he advocated the basic principle of all
pacifists: Wars have no winners, only losers.” By Klaus Wiegrefe. The
British prime minister lost a part of his family in the First World War which
turned him against war. These leads to him not want to take violence towards
Hitler and start another war. Since he didn’t take any violent actions Hitler could
keep taking more land and expanding his army. This made him more aggressive. “The
decisions made by the Allied nations leading up to World War II, as well as
those of the first six months or so after the war began, have dumbfounded
historians ever since. The appeasement of Hitler, in particular, has been so
often held up as an example of how not to deal with a rising dictator
that it has become a stereotype.” From sparknotes.com. Many European countries
where still recovering from the first world war and was still getting used to
their new governments so they appeased Hitler. They also didn’t the true
intentions of Hitler. Since they didn’t do anything about Hitler he kept
invading countries and became more aggressive. “Although the vast majority of British people agreed
with the government and its policy of appeasement, there were some individuals
who disagreed. One of those individuals was Winston Churchill. Churchill
believed that Hitler could not be dealt with because his aims and objectives
were not rational. As such, no amount of appeasement would satisfy the man - he
would always want more.” Churchill was completely correct. Appeasement would
not stop Hitler, if he didn’t feel a treat he would just keep going and become
more aggressive. History.com states, “In March 1939, when Germany seized the
remainder of Czechoslovakia, it was clear that appeasement had failed.
Chamberlain now promised British support to Poland in the case of German
aggression. A misguided belief in ‘peace in our time’ was replaced by a reluctant
acceptance of the inevitability of war.” This shows that when people appeased Germany
and wanted peace, they became more aggressive by taking more land. This failed
and lead to war. To conclude appeasement makes an aggressor more aggressive.