Appeasement, in international relations, the act of yielding to a foreign government's demands in an effort to eliminate grievances that might lead to war. The most famous example of appeasement was the Munich agreement of 1938, which allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia. ( Instead of satisfying the German leader Adolf Hitler, however, it encouraged him to take new steps of aggression. After World War II, the word appeasement was often used as a term of shame to condemn any concessions made by one country in negotiations with another.
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