Why doesn't Revenge and Appeasement work?

Austin D

Hr.2

Crandell world history

Why doesn't Revenge and Appeasement work?

In previous events in history we have learned that that some countries and specific people try to get revenge. However, we do know some people didn't do anything when countries or specific people were doing things they shouldn't have been which is known as appeasement. So we know that based on past history that revenge and appeasement both do not work out.

Revenge may feel good to get on someone or some other country, but does not it end up good in the long run? A huge part of history is when Britain and France wanted to get revenge on Germany so they added all these restrictions to the Treaty of Versailles. One big thing that the Treaty of Versailles required was for Germany to take fault for the whole war and since Germany lost they did. Germany also had to give land back to France and they were not aloud to have more than a 100,000 troops and they couldn’t have airplanes for war and were only aloud 6 boats. So this led Germany ended up feeling like they were cheated out on the war and the fact that it wasn’t just their fault. After the war a man named Adolph Hitler came along. He was working on getting his revenge on Britain and France by getting Austria- Hungry and Czechoslovakia. He even built up troops and broke the Treaty of Versailles, which would then lead to some appeasement.

Is it better to sit back and do nothing or stand up for yourself or country instead of letting things keep happening, which is known as appeasement. On September 1, 1939 Germany tried to conquer Poland and Britain and France declared war on Germany. This war was known as World War 2. War could have been avoided if Britain and France would have done something from the start when Adolph Hitler was weak. Germany started building up their armies, air forces, troops were sent into Rhine lands, made and alliance with Italy, and take over Austria- Hungry to be apart of Germany. At that time Britain and France did nothing about it which is appeasement and helping Germany gain it’s revenge. Then finally Britain and France stepped in when Germany tried to take over Czechoslovakia. Although Germany still gained the land because of the Munich agreement. Germany then takes over the rest of Czechoslovakia and then Britain and France give them an ultimatum. Then finally when Germany went for Poland they stepped in and World War 2 started. And, because they sat around the war occurred because they could have stopped everything when Adolph Hitler was weak at the beginning.

So, revenge and appeasement both do not work. Revenge leads to both being hurt in the end and in this case a world war. Also, appeasement doesn’t work because World War 2 starts because of Britain and France doing nothing. So in the end neither side works and there was created something in between of revenge and appeasement.