History A-Level
Appeasement and collective security
What Appeasement and collective security means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Appeasement and collective security
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Britain and France pursued a policy of appeasement, notably at Munich in 1938, which encouraged Hitler to believe further expansion would go unchallenged and weakened collective security.
Topics that use Appeasement and collective security
- How far was Hitler’s foreign policy responsible for the Second World War? (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Axis alignment and American isolationism
- Diplomatic manoeuvring and the Nazi-Soviet Pact
- Hitler's ideological aims
- Ideological expansionism and Lebensraum
- Lebensraum and racial policy
- Nationalism and eastward expansion
- Strategic miscalculation and the failure of deterrence
- The Nazi-Soviet Pact and Soviet pragmatism
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