LEADER 02619nam 22004453 450 001 9910163208803321 005 20250827080354.0 010 $a9781782898146 010 $a178289814X 035 $a(CKB)3710000001046234 035 $a(BIP)054487290 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781782898146 035 $a(Perlego)3018585 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32202947 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32202947 035 $a(Exl-AI)993710000001046234 035 $a(OCoLC)1534806444 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001046234 100 $a20250827d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAppeasement Reconsidered 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWaipu :$cPickle Partners Publishing,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014. 215 $a1 online resource (64 p.) 330 8 $aThe appeasement of Nazi Germany by the western democracies during the 1930s and the subsequent outbreak of World War II have been a major referent experience for U.S. foreign policymakers since 1945. From Harry Truman's response to the outbreak of the Korean War to George W. Bush's decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein, American presidents have repeatedly affirmed the "lesson" of Munich and invoked it to justify actual or threatened uses of force. However, the conclusion that the democracies could easily have stopped Hitler before he plunged the world into war and holocaust, but lacked the will to do so, does not survive serious scrutiny. Appeasement proved to be a horribly misguided policy against Hitler, but this conclusion is clear only in hindsight - i.e., through the lens of subsequent events.Dr. Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at appeasement within the context of the political and military environments in which British and French leaders operated during the 1930s. He examines the nature of appeasement, the factors underlying Anglo-French policies toward Hitler from 1933 to 1939, and the reasons for the failure of those policies. He finds that Anglo-French security choices were neither simple nor obvious, that hindsight has distorted judgments on those choices, that Hitler remains without equal as a state threat, and that invocations of the Munich analogy should always be closely examined. 606 $aNazi propaganda$7Generated by AI 615 0$aNazi propaganda 700 $aRecord$b Professor Jeffrey$01434292 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163208803321 996 $aAppeasement Reconsidered$94424513 997 $aUNINA