State how each of the following factors were the cause of the Second World War:
The Policy of Appeasement.
i. Appeasement in a political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict. The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Ministers Ramsay Macdonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy between 1935 and 1939.
ii. Great Britain, France and the United States had the power and resources to check the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy and Japan during the 1930s but they failed to do so on account of the policy of appeasement followed by them towards the Axis Powers.
iii. Their policy of appeasement reflected their desire for peace, an attempt on their part to recover their bearings and to re-assert their self- respect and “exasperation with anyone who would try to probe that mass of emotional pretence and questionable reasoning.”
State how each of the following factors were the cause of the Second World War:
The failure of the League of Nations.
State how each of the following factors were the cause of the Second World War:
The Aggressive Nationalism of Germany.
With reference to the First World War answer the following questions:
Mention three points under the Treaty of Versailles, which affected Germany.
With reference to the First World War answer the following questions:
What were the Objectives of the League of Nations ? Name the organization formed in October, 1945 with the objectives similar to those of the League of Nations.
