What is the meaning of appeasement? What are the implications of this policy?

Appeasement refers to a foreign policy that avoids war by making concessions on certain matters that could lead to war. In Chinese, the term is generally used in a derogatory sense, and now it generally refers to the policy of Britain, the United States, France, the Soviet Union and other major powers in the 1930s to tolerate and connive at the German, Italian and Japanese invaders, sacrificing the territorial sovereignty of other countries and even their own interests to satisfy the desires of the invaders in order to hope for peace.

The impact of appeasement:

1) the interests of weak and small countries and nations are betrayed, thus fueling the arrogance of fascist aggression;

2) seriously weakened the anti-fascist forces and brought greater disasters to the world;

3) the "self-preservation policy" of the Western powers also ultimately harms their own interests, so that they reap the consequences;

4) Causing Central European countries to lack trust in Britain and France, and some even throw themselves into the arms of fascism;

5) increased Hitler's prestige;

6) It exacerbated the Soviet Union's distrust of Britain and France, made it turn to Germany, signed a non-aggression pact, emboldened Hitler, and accelerated the outbreak of World War II.

The policy of appeasement, also known as appeasement. It is a policy of not resisting aggression, tolerating and conniving, retreating and yielding, and colluding and compromising with the aggressor at the expense of other countries. Before World War II, the most active promoters of this policy were Britain, France, the United States, and other countries.

Before the thirties of the 20 th century, the policy of appeasement was mainly manifested in supporting the defeated Germany, supporting Japan as a shield against the Soviet Union, and suppressing the people's revolution. This can be glimpsed from the Versailles system and the Washington system. In the Dawes Plan, the Younger Plan, and the Locarno Convention, it is more concrete.

The Munich conspiracy pushed the "appeasement" to its peak. The word "appeasement", ** in the "Three Kingdoms, Wu Zhi, Lu Xun Biography", means "to pacify and pacify", and in modern times, as a policy, it has become a practice of appeasement and adultery.

The policy of appeasement is a policy adopted by Western countries in order to safeguard their own interests at the expense of the interests of other countries in exchange for compromises with their opponentsThe appeasement policy pursued by Britain and France before the full-scale outbreak of World War II connived at the aggressive expansion of the German and Italian fascists, and also caused heavy losses to the two countries themselves. The greatest effect of the policy of appeasement was that it connived at fascist aggression, fueled the aggressive arrogance of fascist countries, and hastened the outbreak of World War II.

Britain and France, the main executors of the appeasement policy, were first attacked by the German fascists, and the fall of France was the direct result of the long-term pursuit of this policy by the French rulers. At the expense of the interests of small and weak countries. It is not conducive to the unity of the anti-fascist countries against the enemy.

The policy of appeasement is a policy of not resisting aggression, tolerating and conniving, retreating and yielding, and colluding and compromising with the aggressors at the expense of other countries.

The reason for the appeasement policy carried out by Britain, France, and other countries is the strategy adopted by Britain and France to maintain their hegemonic position in the face of their declining strengthThe implementation of the policy of appeasement was closely related to the background of the era in which the two social systems coexistedThe implementation of the appeasement policy also had a great deal to do with the social trend of thought that was widespread in the West at that time.

Britain suffered heavy losses in the First World War, and the post-war economic recovery was very slow. In the twenties and thirties of the 20 th century, successive British countries focused their energies on solving economic problems, regarded rearmament as an obstacle to economic recovery, and attempted to achieve the goal of maintaining its hegemonic position with a foreign policy backed by no strength.

Due to its proximity to Germany, France maintained its armaments and adopted a hardline policy towards Germany after World War I. But France's economy has been in recession. During the period of relative stability, development was limited, and the economic crisis of the 30s lasted for a particularly long time, and the economic situation was very grim.

At the same time, the political situation in France is also unstable, and the frequent cabinet changes make it difficult to maintain firmness and continuity in foreign policy. In short, the decline of Britain and France was the material background for their policy of appeasement.

The implementation of the policy of appeasement was closely related to the background of the era in which the two social systems coexistedAfter the October Revolution, the confrontation and struggle between the two social systems, capitalism and socialism, began in international relations. Britain, France and other Western countries, in order to prevent the influence of the Soviet Union, used Germany as a bulwark against Bolshevism.

When Germany established a fascist regime and then tore up the Treaty of Versailles to expand abroad, Britain and France tried their best to channel this scourge to the East.

The implementation of the appeasement policy also had a great deal to do with the prevailing trend of social thought in the West at that time. The brutal scenes of the First World War left a painful memory on Europe and the United States, so the post-war pacifist mentality and war-weariness and fear of war were quite prevalent, especially in France. The fierce rulers of Britain and France were both influenced and constrained by pacifist ideology, and were also the promoters of this ideology, and the policy of appeasement was only a product of their implementation of this ideology.

The policy of appeasement "not only did not prevent the outbreak of World War II, but on the contrary fueled the arrogance of fascist aggression and caused great disasters to Britain and the people of the world." To this day, the "appeasement policy" still has profound implications for today's international politics and diplomacy, especially for China.