Eighty-five years ago today, the world took a major step toward war. On September 28, the four major European powers, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, signed the Munich pact, which ...

When one says appeasement, one would normally think of dialogue, compromise, moderation, civilization. Personally, I think of détente, rapprochement, truce, reconciliation. I think of the necessity of ...

Appeasement was the 1930s British plan to avoid World War II. Many considered it a failed policy as it allowed Germany to rapidly, ruthlessly, and very generously expand its territory. German entered ...

The last sentence of the book is his verdict on the conference: “To bed, sick of life.” Before long, that sentence came to epitomize Europe. Horror-struck guilt and self-hatred blossomed into 1930s ...

Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett today bitterly attacked “appeasement” of Germany as “sowing the seeds of new aggression and horror” in his opening address to the U.N. General Assembly today.

Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich could have been stopped in its tracks well before it launched a Second World War that cost 70-85 million lives. But England and France did nothing when in March of 1935 ...