Appeasement

Appeasement is a diplomatic policy of meeting political demands to a possibly-aggressive power to avoid conflict.Appeasement – World War 2 on History 

The term was used especially for the foreign policy of the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany and Fascist ItalyRobert Mallett, "The Anglo‐Italian war trade negotiations, contraband control and the failure to appease Mussolini, 1939–40." Diplomacy and Statecraft 8.1 (1997): 137–67. between 1935 and 1939. It was supported by most people there and in France, most notably under Édouard Daladier, because people feared another world war.

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Détente

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