Appeasement of Germany

1. These countries did not want another war because they had just started to recover from the last one, they couldn't afford another war financially either.
2. When Hitler united Germany and Austria, he fooled his people into thinking that he was creating a greater Germany to unite German speaking people.
3. Sudetenland was the part of Czechoslovakia where most German speaking people lived.
4. Germany couldn't immediately take over Czechoslovakia because it was a fairly powerful country and was backed by the Soviet Union.
5. a) Britain, France, Germany, and Italy were represented at the Munich Conference.
b) Czechoslovakia probably should have been invited to the conference, since the whole point of the conference was to decide
what to do with the Sudetenland, which was Czechoslovakian.
6. At the Munich Conference, it was agreed that the Sudetenland would go to Germany and some other parts of Czechoslovakia would be taken by Poland and Hungary.
7. Many people felt giving in to Germany would be a good thing because they hoped it would prevent war and make Hitler happy so that he would stop fighting for more land.
8. Chamberlain said that the Munich Conference was a success because four powerful countries had been able to come to a compromise without resorting to violence.
9. Churchill thought that the Munich Conference had only prolonged the war against Germany that was going to have to be fought at some point. He felt that Hitler would not stop trying to expand Germany, and that he would have to be stopped forcefully.
10. Most of the people of the Sudetenland were probably happy to join Germany, since they had urged to join Germany in the first place. The people in areas taken over by Poland and Hungary were probably very angry that they had not been protected and had instead just been thrown out of their own country. The people who remained in Czechoslovakia were probably angry that their country had not been fully protected, but glad that they didn't have to fight Germany (yet).

Bonus Question: I don't believe that the policy of appeasement was fair because I think Britain and France had the obligation to help the other European countries. Germany should have been stopped right when they tried to remilitarize the Rhineland, and the rest of the Versailles Treaty's limitations should have continued to be enforced. Germany's punishment had already been decided, and it should have been enforced. I can see why Britain and France didn't want to fight another war, but they wouldn't have had to if they had just kept Germany under control from the start. The whole policy of appeasement was just a way for Britain and France to stay out of things themselves by basically offering weaker countries as sacrifices to Germany. It was obviously unfair to these weaker countries that didn't even have a say in the matter.