History A-Level
Appeasement
What Appeasement means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A response to aggression in which Britain and France offered only diplomatic protests, as during the Rhineland Crisis and the Anschluss.
A policy whose failure was a cause of the outbreak of war in Europe, and which Britain shifted away from after March 1939.
Topics that use Appeasement
- 2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941 (A-level only) – The coming of war, 1935–1941 (AQA A-Level)
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