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Changing interpretations of appeasement (1 - Popular majority view…
Changing interpretations of appeasement
1 - Popular majority view
Summary
Chamberlain kept war away for as long as he could
Well done chamberlain
Context
Worried about war
Remembers WW1
And did not want a repeat
Impact
Joy did not last
Guilty for Czechoslavakia
Challenges
Critics
Winston Churchill
Historians
Chamberlain
Lord Halifax
Joseph Kennedy
The "Guilty Men"
Summary
Appeasement was :
Foolish
Cowardly
Immoral
Book published 1940
Guilty men
by CATO
Made dictators more powerfull
Weakened britan
Did not prepare Britain for war
Guilty men
Historians
Peter Howard
Michael Foot
Peter Howard
Context
People where ashamed
World war two had begun
The appeasers misjudged Hitler
Sumary
Misjudgement
Miscalculation
Based on good motives
Context
Threat of Communism
Meant atht people though that mistakes of teh pass should not be repeated
Historians
Churchill
Rehabilitating Chamberlain
Summary
Chamberlain did the best that he could have done in the situation
Context
Radical thinking (traditional ideas being questioned)
Vietnam war
lack of appeasement had drawn america into a war
New british sources
Historians
Donald Watt
David Dilks