when did britain and france adopt a policy of appeasment towards germany?

Answer 1

A few months before the start of the war in Europe, both the British empire and France were already trying to contain Japanese aggression in there Far East colonies, so the opening of a second front was not what they wanted, so with the annexing of sudetenland part of Czeckslovakia the then British P.M. met with Hitler, to which it was agreed that both Britain and France would do nothing as long as the status quo remained from that point on, needless to say the infamous speech Neville Chamblain gave on leaving the Plane when it landed "Peace in our time" was short lived as the invasion of Poland happened just 2 weeks later and the British and French Empires declared war on Germany.

Answer 2

1938 to 1939 is cited but both nations were playing footsie with Hitler from the time he rose to power in 1933.

Here is what Wkipedia has to say--------
"""""""""The word in its normal meaning connotes the pacific settlement of disputes; in the meaning usually applied to the period of Chamberlain's premiership, it has come to indicate something sinister, the granting from fear or cowardice of unwarranted concessions in order to buy temporary peace at someone else's expense." D.N. DIlks, Appeasement Revisited, Journal of Contemporary History, 1972.

However, appeasement has also been deemed successful by many historians, as with the 'bought' year of 1938-39, Britain rapidly increased military production and with the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia allowed the protection of the British Isles. It must, however, also be pointed out, that in turn, Nazi Germany was able to significantly boost its military power in the time thus granted, and quite possibly to a greater extent than the Allies, particularly since the annexation of Czechoslovakia gave the third Reich access to well-developed Czech industrial resources and significantly improved its strategic standing, avoiding a conflict through the unfavorable terrain of the Czech-German border (even where this was unfortified) in comparison to Poland, which also suffered afterwards from a lengthened border with Germany.""

But a Responsible Historian would cite the Anglo-German Naval accord of 1935 --
"""""""""""""The Anglo-German Naval Agreement (AGNA), was signed between United Kingdom and Germany on June 18, 1935. Despite provisions in the Treaty of Versailles, the agreement negotiated by von Ribbentrop allowed Germany to increase the size of its Navy to one-third the size of the Royal Navy. At the same time, the United Kingdom agreed to withdraw its navy from the Baltic Sea completely, making Germany the dominant power in the Baltic. Adolf Hitler himself was privately ecstatic at the agreement, saying, "Great Britain has in fact renounced her naval influence in the Baltic, a bottle that we Germans can close. The English cannot exercise any control there. We are the masters of the Baltic." Even the Times of London reported that the "German Fleet will now be in unchallenged control of the Baltic. Every new unit added to the German fleet makes Sweden's (and the rest of the Baltic nations) position so much worse...Even before 1914 our position was better, as then the Russian and German fleets about balanced."

It was agreed that the German navy wouldn't exceed 35% the size of that of the British navy. This was chosen on purpose as it was a well known theory that if there were two evenly match opponents in a war, neither would win. However if one had only a third of the armaments, then they would lose. This theory dated back to World War I and it greatly pleased the British cabinet.""

Peace

Answer 3

Before World War II when Germany annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Answer 4

i assume you are talking about the time after ww1 and before the eruption of ww2,

if so.. they did it because they did not want to go to war again so soon after ww1, also, the territory they "appeased"hitler with was a german community in hungary/austria. they just gave it to em because they wanted to postpone the fighting as long as they could.

Answer 5

Well they were just weak on confronting evil.Hitler had already authored Mien Kampf were he stated his goals.They thought that by talking to him and apeasment they could have peace.They were like todays democrates weak to confront evil in there time.

Answer 6

post WWI... they didn't want to start up another war after having just been through one but unfortunately it didn't work

Answer 7

WWI