Appeasement refers to a policy of making concessions to an aggressor in hopes of preventing war; which leader is typically associated with this policy?

• A. Neville Chamberlain
• B. Winston Churchill
• C. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• D. Joseph Stalin

Answer: (A)

Appeasement is about trying to prevent war by giving in to some demands of a potential aggressor. It’s most closely linked to Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister in the late 1930s. He pursued a strategy of conceding to some of Hitler’s demands, hoping it would preserve peace, epitomized by the Munich Agreement in 1938 granting Germany control over the Sudetenland in exchange for Hitler’s promise of no further expansion. The phrase “peace for our time” is associated with that moment, though the policy is widely debated because it arguably encouraged further aggression. This approach contrasts with Winston Churchill, who argued against giving concessions and later led Britain through World War II. Roosevelt and Stalin were key Allied leaders later in the war, but they aren’t the figures typically linked with appeasement.