Date of Award

7-1964

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Leo J. Wearing

Abstract

In May of 1937, Stanley Baldwin retired as prime minister of Great Britain, and Neville Chamberlain replaced him. In the next two years Chamberlain would pursue a policy of appeasement which would culminate in Germany's military entrance into Poland on September 1, 1939. Britain's appeasement policy had begun earlier, however. On March 7, 1936, German troops marched into the Rhineland and reoccupied it. England, fearing another war, refused to act against Germany. Anthony Eden, in a speech to the House of Commons on January 19, 1937, had declared that Great Britain's obligations under the League covenant concerning sanctions were optional. However, England was willing "to cooperate in the common work of political appeasement and economic cooperation".

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