Appeasement is taught as one of the most disastrous foreign policies in human history. For half a decade, the great powers of Britain and France bent to the will of a dictator from Berlin. Hoping, just hoping, that this would be the last demand, this time it would be the last concession. But why would they do that? Britain and France, if they had wanted to, could’ve steamrolled the second-rate military power of Germany in the interwar period. So the question is, why? Why didn’t they stomp the upstart fascists? Why didn’t they end the threat to the east? Today we are going to be diving into the fascinating and tragic era of appeasement.

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