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appeasement
 
 
A political policy of conceding to aggression by a warlike nation.  1
‡ A classic example of appeasement is the Munich Pact of 1938, negotiated between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain, the prime minister of Britain, allowed Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia to Germany.  2
 
 
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