The Munich Conference came to symbolize the dangers of appeasement.
The Munich Conference resulted to an agreement permitting Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland, signed on Sept 29, 1938.
The infamous attempt to appease Nazi Germany by selling out Czechoslovakia in exchange for peace failed so terribly to prevent war leaving a primary lesson that it has always been the danger of appeasement.
Appeasement, the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict, governed Anglo-French foreign policy during the 1930s.
It became indelibly associated with Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Although the roots of appeasement lay primarily in the weakness of post-World War I collective security arrangements, the policy was motivated by several other factors.
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