Appeasement

A new strategy used against Hitler in which he Western democracies would give into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace. British - no desire to fight anyone France - demoralized and had political division

A series of treaties in 1936 and 37 between Germany, Italy, and Japan created what was called the "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis." The coutries were thereafter refered to as the Axis Powers.

1938 Hitler wanted the Sudetenland, a western region of Czechoslovakia, as it had many German speaking people in it.

Hitler broke the Munich Agreement, and invaded Czechoslovakia, taking the country for his own. Nobody stopped him, but Britain prepared for war.

In September 1931, Japan, a member of the League of Nations, invaded northeast China, claiming it as not only Chinese but a multi-ethnic "Manchuria" region.

On 1 September 1939, German forces invaded Poland; Britain and France joined the war against Germany. Chamberlain's conduct of the war was not popular and, on 10 May 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister.

Agreement between Chamberlain and Hitler that Germany would not conquer any more land, and if did, would declare war

Winston Churchill. Churchill believed that Hitler could not be dealt with because his aims and objectives were not rational. As such, no amount of appeasement would satisfy the man.