Why did the policy of appeasement fail?
What will be an ideal response?
Chamberlain's policy to allow Hitler's plans to extend Germany in Czechoslovakia were at best a drastic underestimation of Hitler's intentions, if not an abnegation of authority within the European community. Hitler's claims for the Sudetenland were not seen as being unreasonable because an enclave of German citizens lived in that territory. However, Hitler had also expressed an interest in restoring Poland to Germany, and when he looked more seriously at this in 1939, neither Chamberlain nor anyone else in Europe was in a position to stop him. However, as Hitler's stated policies had always been clear, going back to his declaration in Mein Kampf for the need for living space (Lebensraum), this was not a difficult move to anticipate. In general, Hitler was quite open in discussing his plans to create the Third Reich, and the failure to contain him earlier led to the conflicts later in the war.
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