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Mackenzie Brooks

Period 6

Krueger
3/28/14
DBQ: World War II: The Road to War
In the 1920s, the world was a fairly peaceful place after World War I had
ended. Going into the 1930s, the peace became more and more false as aggressive
dictators began to come to power in countries that had been oppressed by World
War I, such as Adolf Hitler of Germany. As Hitler became more and more powerful,
neither the League of Nations nor the other western powers were willing to stop
him. It was suggested by British Prime Minister Chamberlain that the best way to
deal with Hitler was to appease him for his actions. Winston Churchill suggested
that the best way to deal with Hitler was collective security, in which the western
powers would team together to try to scare Hitler off from disturbing the peace.
The world was plunged into World War I as a result of appeasement, and the most
effective response to aggression is collective security.
Winston Churchill disagreed with Chamberlains policy of appeasement for
Hitlers actions. He felt that keeping the peace is determined by holding back the
aggressor, not letting them do what they want. Churchills belief is proven valid
when Britain and France keep appeasing Hitler for his actions and moving the world
closer to war as Hitler kept taking over weaker European countries, like
Czechoslovakia (D6). A well known principle is that strength comes in numbers.
Collective security means many parties joining together to stop another party from
doing an action. Thinkers like Churchill wished for the Western powers in Europe to
stop Hitler with collective security, but they appeased him for his actions, instead
feeling bad for him because of the unfair terms for Germany in the Treaty of
Versailles (OI)
Appeasement was what plunged most of the world and Europe into the
Second World War. It seemed logical by the majority of political leaders in Britain
and France because of the unfair terms in the Treaty of Versailles, forcing Germany
to rip up its economy trying to pay for WW1 reparations. Instead, Germany took
advantage of this, and Hitler began invading lower power European countries. As
Hitler expanded and expanded the Third Regime, the Western powers kept
appeasing him for his actions until the beginning of the war, so appeasement
obviously didnt work out very well. It was said that the Munich Agreement was a
desperate act of appeasement performed in the vain hope that it would satisfy
Hitlers stormy ambition (D7). The League of Nations did not benefit the
appeasement movement, either. As France kept laying Germanys treaty [of
Versailles] violations in front of the League of Nations, they turned a blind eye to the
issue, and kept appeasing Hitler for his actions. This led Hitler to attempting to take
over the entire world with the Nazi party (D3).

The world went to war for a second time in the early 20 th century as a result
of Appeasement. Collective security is the most effective way to deal with
aggressors. Each plan had different political supporters such as Chamberlain,
Churchill, and Keenan. Collective security is the policy of strength in numbers,
which would mean the Western forces combining forces to stop the Third Regime.
Appeasement didnt work as an effective method to stop aggressors because it let
Hitler do whatever he wanted to without getting in trouble, which just gave him
confidence that he could take over the whole world, as originally planned. Hitler
kept promising after each invasion that he was finished, but he was never stopped
from his reign of terror until action was taken. This began to shred to pieces the
peace that Europe was in after World War 1, and replaced it with a false, hopeless
sense of peace.

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