World Studies Final Practice Test

Appeasement is the idea of giving in to some demands to avoid war. The Munich Conference of 1938 brought Britain, France, Italy, and Germany together to decide the fate of the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia with many ethnic Germans. They ceded it to Germany in exchange for Hitler’s promise to stop expanding, a move meant to prevent a broader conflict. This is why the event is associated with appeasement. Yet the plan backfired, as Hitler soon took the rest of Czechoslovakia and then Poland, showing that conceding territory only encouraged further aggression. The other conferences happened in different times and contexts: Tehran was a wartime meeting, Potsdam dealt with postwar order, and Versailles was the post–World War I treaty. Munich is the one that fits the description.