Appeasement

Video and image introduction

Two videos, made by the BBC stored on YouTube
 

Europe 1936-8. The background to the peak appeasement period

Chamberlain's appeasement policy, 1938-9

Key images

Germany after the First World War

The terms of the Treaty of Versailles 1919 and Germany

German ambitions, expansion in the east

Chamberlain’s return, 30 September 1938, with the Munich Agreement

Blitzkrieg fighter (left), bombed Berlin, 1945 (right)