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appeasementForeign policy of pacifying an aggrieved nation through negotiation in order to prevent war. The prime example is Britain's policy toward Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Neville Chamberlain sought to accommodate Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 and took no action when Germany absorbed Austria in 1938. When Adolf Hitler prepared to annex ethnically German portions of Czechoslovakia, Chamberlain negotiated the notorious Munich Agreement. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| That appeasement policy is the main reason Los Angeles has the worst public transit system of any big city in America - and probably in the world, for that matter. In the 1930s, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain merely pursued to its logical conclusion the appeasement policy adopted the decade before. WHILE the Clinton administration was busy last week fine tuning its appeasement policy toward the Chinese dictatorship, Mickey Mouse was pursuing the exact opposite approach, one which the Clinton foreign policy folks might do well to learn from. |
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