Original sentence: Appeasement is a strategic maneuver, based on either pragmatism, fear of war, or moral conviction, that leads to acceptance of imposed conditions in lieu of armed resistance.Since World War II, the term has gained a negative connotation, in politics and in general, of weakness and cowardice
Edited sentence: Appeasement is a pejorative term for a strategic maneuver, based on either pragmatism, fear of war, or moral conviction, that leads to acceptance of imposed conditions in preference to defending against aggressors.Because the term has highly negative connotations, it is difficult to cite many historical examples which are widely regarded as appeasement.Since World War II, the term has generally negative connotations of weakness and cowardice, and people rarely use it to describe policies they support and tend to use it to label policies that they oppose.The one historical situation in which the term is universally applied to is British (especially that of Neville Chamberlain's) policy toward Nazi Germany before World War II