Hitler's Failure Of Appeasement In The Outbreak Of War

The Anglo-French foreign diplomatic policy of Appeasement was adopted “from the Treaty of Versailles onwards ”, mainly exhibited through Neville Chamberlain. Appeasement was solely focused on reaching peaceful terms, and understandings with Germany. Nevertheless, it has been regarded as a failed plan, which in turn only prolonged the outbreak of the Second World War and contributed to the rise of the Nazi party and Hitler’s ever-growing confidence. As such, these crucial elements presents the focal responsibility in which Hitler’s intentions made this policy impractical. Alan Monger states “during the 1920’s and early 1930’s Britain had controlled the process…mid 1930s Hitler seized the initiative ”.

With the rise of Hitler his ideologies exhibited through the Nazi Party became ever-present. Primarily Hitler sought to review the terms of the Versailles Treaty; he hoped to achieve his goals through terror and violence, displayed in ‘Mein Kampf ’ asserting that he would “break the unjust terms of the Treaty

The main reason in which this association failed was purely because they had no military backing at all, it relied on the support from Britain and France who were attempting to avoid conflict at any cost. Thus meaning League of Nations was not able to intervene in any conflict, closely referring to the Italian occupation of Abyssinia as the ‘League ‘ themselves were following this policy. All the League of Nations was able to do in reality was voice their concerns, but were not able to transform their words into actions, the League made an appeasement with Mussolini to stop Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia but when Mussolini annexed, there was no resistance. Thus expressing this sense of ineffectiveness, and displaying how Appeasement led to the rise in Fascist dictators not just