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  • Thumbnail for Appeasement
    Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive...
    95 KB (11,835 words) - 11:22, 3 June 2024
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    lack of response to Adolf Hitler's threats of war. Rather than castigating the popular appeasement policy that the British government then pursued, it...
    6 KB (556 words) - 20:55, 27 May 2024
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    for our time" by pursuing a policy of appeasement and containment towards Nazi Germany and by increasing the strength of Britain's armed forces until...
    104 KB (15,372 words) - 21:59, 24 April 2024
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    ultimatum to Lithuania forcing it to cede the Klaipėda Region. The policy of appeasement underestimated Hitler's ambitions by believing that enough concessions...
    11 KB (1,285 words) - 03:47, 27 May 2024
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    pacificism and opposing re-armament, he became a critic of Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement in the lead-up to the Second World War. Attlee took...
    166 KB (18,418 words) - 15:00, 8 June 2024
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    a bullet hole in him." The policy of appeasement toward Hitler led to satirical references to the disappearance of such jingoistic attitudes when facing...
    10 KB (1,123 words) - 16:25, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neville Chamberlain
    October 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding...
    121 KB (15,198 words) - 21:44, 4 June 2024
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    hostility against this policy of appeasement and at the instigation of his mother Catherine de' Medici, Charles oversaw the massacre of numerous Huguenot leaders...
    21 KB (2,214 words) - 13:19, 8 June 2024
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    Republicans for control of Spain. At first, the aggressive moves met with only feeble and ineffectual policies of appeasement from the other major world...
    74 KB (9,469 words) - 01:26, 21 May 2024
  • Tim Bouverie about the British policy of appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s. Bouverie explains the policy as a product of the British response to the First...
    3 KB (248 words) - 14:49, 26 March 2024
  • Chrysaphius (category Year of birth unknown)
    minister of Theodosius II (r. 402–450). Having a great influence on the rule of the empire during his ascendancy, he pursued a policy of appeasement towards...
    8 KB (1,146 words) - 16:47, 27 October 2022
  • Winston Churchill's "Wilderness" years, 1929–1939 (category Early lives of the prime ministers of the United Kingdom)
    extremely active politically as the main opponent of the government's policy of appeasement in the face of increasing German, Italian and Japanese militarism...
    17 KB (2,256 words) - 13:17, 31 December 2023
  • 1930s policy of appeasement. John L. Spivak, writing in 1939, devoted a chapter to the Cliveden Set. After the Second World War ended, the discovery of the...
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    chronicling the rise of fascism in the 1930s, the policy of Appeasement, and the conflict of the Second World War. His provocative depictions of Hitler and Mussolini...
    16 KB (1,736 words) - 21:03, 16 May 2024
  • in general, for its policy of appeasement. The speech officially ended Churchill's support for the government's appeasement policy. Churchill had hoped...
    20 KB (2,647 words) - 11:17, 9 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
    Foreign Secretary between 1938 and 1940. He was one of the architects of the policy of appeasement of Adolf Hitler in 1936–1938, working closely with Prime...
    87 KB (10,155 words) - 13:24, 1 June 2024
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    Jiajing wokou raids (category Naval history of China)
    authorities to discuss the opening of oversea trade, Zhao Wenhua, the major pusher of an appeasement policy, was accused of embezzlement, lost imperial favour...
    62 KB (8,923 words) - 22:14, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania
    any material assistance. The United Kingdom and France followed a policy of appeasement, while Italy and Japan openly supported Germany, and Lithuania accepted...
    21 KB (2,514 words) - 03:50, 10 March 2024
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    several high-profile British public figures who instituted the policy of appeasement towards Adolf Hitler and failed to rearm sufficiently to prepare...
    139 KB (16,644 words) - 21:51, 4 June 2024
  • position of British military weakness during the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany was among the causes that led to the policy of appeasement. The conversion...
    6 KB (741 words) - 16:04, 23 August 2023
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