League Of Nations Notes

Appeasement

• Policy adopted by Neville Chamberlain (British PM) in order to another world war
• The policy was that, to avoid war, Britain and France would give countries what they want for example Italy invaded Abyssinia and France secretly agreed to give Mussolini Abyssinia
• Appeasement occasionally clashed with the Treaty of Versailles, Anschluss was one of the main problems along with remilitarizing the Rhineland
• The Great Depression meant that people were not prepared to fight in another war so the policy of appeasement, in Neville Chamberlain's eyes, was the right thing to do
• It could be argued that if Britain and France had put their foot down and not bent to Hitler's wims than WWII would never have happened

Locarno Treaty

• In 1925, Germany was entered into the Locarno…