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Britain and France are routinely condemned for their appeasement of Hitler and Mussolini in the years leading up to the second world war they saw Britain and France too little to combat growing Italian and German aggression during the mid to late 1930s it's argued that appeasement allowed the two fascist powers to grow in strength for made World War two inevitable furthermore it's also said that it needlessly condemned millions of Europeans to live under regimes that they did not want to the big question is did appeasement actually work and achieve what the Allies wanted before continuing it's very important to note that the governments of France and the UK weren't free to take his harder line as they wanted to their respective populations were fiercely against any future war in Britain specifically was suffering from economic malaise which was combined with the simple fact its power was now waning relative to Germany as such both nations had militaries which were underfunded and fixing their problems would take many years so the first major act of appeasement came when Hitler publicly announced the reintroduction of conscription in 1935 which had been forbidden in the Treaty of Versailles the British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald didn't want to denounce the German decision lest they withdraw from talks over limiting the size of their Navy the next problem came with the Italian War and subsequent conquest of Ethiopia was Britain didn't want a stronger Italian Empire they realized that militarily they weren't able to do much about it France took the lead here and pressured Britain not to pursue too strong a response France is thinking here was that if Italy felt too isolated it would turn to Germany for an alliance and that couldn't be allowed in early 1936 Germany Rhee militarized the Rhineland meaning that it's stationed troops there which was something also forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles the French had a larger and more capable army at this point and could have quite easily defeated the German troops there but political problems at home stopped any interference Europe was pretty quiet for a couple of years until early 1938 when Germany annexed Austria and Hitler subsequently turned his attention to Czechoslovakia specifically this land the Sudetenland which was populated mostly by ethnic Germans and which Hitler then demanded be given to him the British in the French were in a bit of a conundrum here because they wanted to guarantee the independence of Czechoslovakia but they also knew that military intervention wouldn't have stopped Germany from conquering it as such the Munich conference was held which saw British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Mussolini Hitler and the French prime minister Eduardo Xavier come to an agreement it was decided that Czechoslovakia would cede the Sudetenland that Germany would promised not to conquer the rest of it until it did in March of 1939 the reason for throwing Czechoslovakia to the Germans was that both France and Britain knew...