IB: Internal Assessment - Appeasement
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Was the policy of appeasement a responsible/ reasonable policy to pursue in the 1930’s?
Table of Contents
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F
Plan of the Investigation
Summary of Evidence
Evaluation of Sources
Analysis
Conclusion
Sources
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Section A: Plan of the Investigation
Appeasement is the policy of trying to alleviate someone or something by adhering to their demands in return for peace. The most notable inventor and user of the policy was Neville
Chamberlin, Britain’s Prime Minister leading up to World War 2. The policy was heavily associated with World War 2, especially the events that lead up to it. Then and now many people have supported the policy as well as many have had great issues with it. The plan of investigation is to compare both supporting and opposing arguments for the policy of appeasement. The investigation will include the four viewpoints of Winston Churchill, R.A. Butler, A.L. Rowse, and Gerhard L. Weinberg from the book An Age of Conflict: Readings in Twentieth Century
European History. As well as many other valuable primary and secondary sources listed in section F.
Word Count: 139
Section B: Summary of the Evidence
The policy that began with the promise Hitler made to Germany to protect the plenty of Germans in neighboring countries, followed by the union and annexation of Austria (The Anschluss), and then the take over of the Sudetenland. The Munich Conference held during September of 1938 included Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain. The Conference was held concerning the annexation by Germany of the Sudetenland, where the population was mainly German speaking people who were believed to be under oppression. Germany was able to invade and annex this land with no repercussions because of the policy of appeasement. France and Britain wanted nothing more than to avoid another world war and to make that happen, they had to keep
Germany happy. “On their return to
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1
Was the policy of appeasement a responsible/ reasonable policy to pursue in the 1930’s?
Table of Contents
A
B
C
D
E
F
Plan of the Investigation
Summary of Evidence
Evaluation of Sources
Analysis
Conclusion
Sources
2
2-3
3-4
4-5
5
6
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Section A: Plan of the Investigation
Appeasement is the policy of trying to alleviate someone or something by adhering to their demands in return for peace. The most notable inventor and user of the policy was Neville
Chamberlin, Britain’s Prime Minister leading up to World War 2. The policy was heavily associated with World War 2, especially the events that lead up to it. Then and now many people have supported the policy as well as many have had great issues with it. The plan of investigation is to compare both supporting and opposing arguments for the policy of appeasement. The investigation will include the four viewpoints of Winston Churchill, R.A. Butler, A.L. Rowse, and Gerhard L. Weinberg from the book An Age of Conflict: Readings in Twentieth Century
European History. As well as many other valuable primary and secondary sources listed in section F.
Word Count: 139
Section B: Summary of the Evidence
The policy that began with the promise Hitler made to Germany to protect the plenty of Germans in neighboring countries, followed by the union and annexation of Austria (The Anschluss), and then the take over of the Sudetenland. The Munich Conference held during September of 1938 included Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain. The Conference was held concerning the annexation by Germany of the Sudetenland, where the population was mainly German speaking people who were believed to be under oppression. Germany was able to invade and annex this land with no repercussions because of the policy of appeasement. France and Britain wanted nothing more than to avoid another world war and to make that happen, they had to keep
Germany happy. “On their return to