Whay did britain and france adopt a policy of appeasement in the 1930s.?

Question

What were it's main features?

Answer 1

They want to have peace at any price. Those anti war people today are the same. They have forgot about the cost paid at Munich in 1939. Then they have a short memory.

Answer 2

I just read about this in history last week. They were traumatized still by World War I and adopted this policy in order to avoid another destructive war with Germany. They sort of feigned ignorance when Ger. took back the Rhine from France and rearmed themselves just because they were scared of confrontation. Had they done something sooner to stop Germany from rearming, they might have avoided the entire war (WWII) entirely.

Answer 3

A. earlier the conflict began.. Britain by no ability had the adult men or equipment to combat a conflict B. while they declared conflict...look at Dunkirk C. while the U.S. declared conflict...Us declared conflict for 2 motives eastern and Pearl Harbour and additionally the theory that Britain could lose, we had lost extremely some adult men etc and Germany as no a million u . s . interior the international NO. additionally bear in mind that extremely some Germans lived interior the U. S. D. after France exchange into invaded and divided..the conflict exchange into over Germany were divided and all exchange into properly

Answer 4

Poor economies, weak politicians, fear.

It probably didn't help either that WWI or The Great War, was quite brutal by war standards. Being the "war to end all wars" no one has particularly hankering for another fight.

Answer 5

They had suffered mightily in WWI and lacked support internally to fight another war, especially if they themselves didn't appear to be threatened. Alliances that dragged them into war may have theoretically existed, but their publics lacked the stomach for fighting for any alliance.

Answer 6

Because the had lost so many men in WW1 that nobody wanted to repeat the process