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appeasement
/ əˈpiːzmənt /
noun
- the policy of acceding to the demands of a potentially hostile nation in the hope of maintaining peace
- the act of appeasing
appeasement
- A political policy of conceding to aggression by a warlike nation.
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Notes
A classic example of appeasement is the Munich Pact of 1938, negotiated between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler . Chamberlain, the prime minister of Britain , allowed Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia to Germany .
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This appeasement came at a dire cost, ultimately allowing secessionism to gain serious currency among his Southern colleagues.
From Washington Post
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