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    Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive...
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    to Adolf Hitler's threats of war. Rather than castigating the popular appeasement policy that the British government then pursued, it is notable for taking...
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  • Reverse sexism is a controversial term for discrimination against men and boys, or for anti-male prejudice. Reverse sexism has been compared by sociologists...
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    Events leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise Tariff of...
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  • suddenly experiences unexplainable sickness, atang is performed as an appeasement ritual for the deceased who may have been offended or disturbed. It is...
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  • "Why die for Danzig?" (French: Pourquoi mourir pour Dantzig ?) is a pro-appeasement anti-war French political slogan created on the eve of World War II,...
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    Europe. Today, the Munich Agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has become "a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist...
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  • factor. Minoritarianism may also be used to describe some cases where appeasement of minorities by votebank politics is practiced. Examples include but...
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    The lesson of Munich, in international relations, refers to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference in September 1938. To avoid war,...
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    May 1937 to October 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September...
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  • Soviet Union, as well as the Great Depression. The peace movement led to appeasement and disarmament. World War II is generally viewed as having its roots...
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    Anti-appeasement steles were 19th century monuments built in Korea to ostracize Westerners. They were erected by Heungseon Daewongun at more than 200...
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    Rhineland in March 1936, encountering little opposition due to the policy of appeasement. In October 1936, Germany and Italy formed the Rome–Berlin Axis. A month...
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    Service, with government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the appeasement period just prior to the Second World War. Son of furniture dealer Henry...
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    August 7, 2020. De Castro, Renato Cruz (August 2022). "Caught Between Appeasement and Limited Hard Balancing: The Philippines' Changing Relations With...
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    upper class pro-German conspiracy was widely accepted by opponents of Appeasement in the late 1930s. It was long accepted that the aristocratic Germanophile...
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    Arnd; Murray, William J. (2003). The Nazi Olympics: sport, politics and appeasement in the 1930s. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02815-1. Retrieved...
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  • Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active...
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    incident in the lyrics of its second verse. A total and unmitigated defeat Appeasement Dewey Defeats Truman European foreign policy of the Chamberlain ministry...
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    original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020. "Cyprus: EU 'appeasement' of Turkey in exploration row will go nowhere". Reuters. 17 August 2020...
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  • Hitler, the Holocaust and the Gestapo. His study of Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War, published in 1998, was reviewed in academic...
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    Chamberlain's commitment to "peace for our time" by pursuing a policy of appeasement and containment towards Nazi Germany and by increasing the strength of...
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    Republic. At the time, the United Kingdom and France preferred a policy of appeasement. With tensions mounting between Germany and Poland over the future of...
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  • for their failure to re-equip the British armed forces. In denouncing appeasement, it defined the policy as the "deliberate surrender of small nations...
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  • active politically as the main opponent of the government's policy of appeasement in the face of increasing German, Italian and Japanese militarism. In...
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    escalation De-escalation Just war theory War studies International relations Appeasement Armistice Brinkmanship Ceasefire Diplomacy Deterrence Multilateralism...
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    the 1930s to symbolize such appeasement, and Chamberlain often carried an umbrella. Kennedy, who wrote a thesis on appeasement while at Harvard, Why England...
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    when confronted with a threat, leading to subservient behaviour and appeasement, while concealing their true thoughts and feelings. The term "Uncle Tom"...
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    achieve their aims, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Appeasement is a policy of making concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid confrontation;...
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    the aggressive moves met with only feeble and ineffectual policies of appeasement from the other major world powers. The League of Nations proved helpless...
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