In 1937 a man named Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain. He was a very peaceful person who didn�t like the idea of war. He also thought that, after the First World War, the allied forces had too harshly punished Germany. So he began what is known as appeasement in which he would try to meet all of Adolf Hitler�s demands to help Germany deal with its problems. This idea was also to prevent a second war like World War I. However Chamberlain did not see that by meeting those demands he was not only playing into Hitler's hands, but also giving up too many important things, even though he was warned about it.

First Chamberlain sent his new foreign secretary, Lord Halifax, to Germany to see what it was like there. His report clearly stated how much he liked Hitler and what he had done for Germany including his ideal of keeping communists out of his country. With that, Neville couldn�t see why Hitler and Germany would be trying to pose a threat to Britain or anyone. Later in 1938, Hitler had demanded that there be concession for the Austrian Nazi party. The Austrian Chancellor, Kurt von Schuschnigg, refused his demand, but, later when he resigned and was replaced by Arthur Seyss-Inquart, who happened to be leader of the Austrian Nazi Party, Hitler was invited to let the German army inhabit Austria and proclaimed a union with him. Then Hitler demanded something else. He wanted the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia to be under the control of German government. On the 29^th of September that year, Hitler, Neville, Edouard Daladier, and Benito Mussolini met and signed what is know as the Munich Agreement which gave Hitler what he wanted. To Neville this did not seem like a big deal because German and German speaking people mainly inhabited the area. He thought that this would be the last thing that Hitler would ask for and that by giving him this he was avoiding the possibility of a war, which made it very popular with a lot of people in Great Britain. However, this wasn�t the last thing Hitler would take and by letting him take all of this without doing anything to stop it was just playing into Hitler's hands.

 By giving in to Hitler's demands Neville had given up the Czech Army, which at the time was one of the best armies in Europe. Although he believed he was preventing a war, Neville didn�t seem to realize that if war did break out they had just lost one of their greatest allies that could have helped them when a war would break out. Although it is good not to want a war to break out and to try and prevent one, Neville should never have let Hitler seize control of that part of Czechoslovakia or get away with unionizing with Austria. Allowing the union, which was against the Treaty of Versailles helped Hitler become stronger as the allies became weaker. To Neville it possibly didn�t seem like that much of a threat and he knew making a fuss about it might get Germany angry and cause a war. However se was warned when the union had taken place that he needed to take action.

During Neville�s appeasement he was constantly warned and told to take action as Hitler was making and receiving his demands. When the union between Austria and Germany had taken place the House of Commons called upon him to take action against Hitler and the Nazi government. Before this, an Ml6 agent named Hugh Christie met with Hermann Goering and later reported that Germany was apparently planning to take control of Austria and Czechoslovakia. He tried to warn them that if Britain joined forces with Czechoslovakia they could take care of Hitler easier. However as tension grew Hitler demanded and received the territory he wanted in Czechoslovakia. Although it was popular to most Britain�s some politicians, such as Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden, were very displeased with the agreement. They had said that it was not only dishonourable because the Czech head of state was not invited or informed of the meeting, but it also meant they had lost the support of the Czech army. This was not the first time Eden had disagreed with Neville. Eden was Neville�s first foreign secretary, but had resigned because he disagreed with the policy of appeasement. Still Neville Chamberlain did nothing to try and stop Hitler and was convinced he did a good job in preventing another war and that Hitler could be trusted. That was until March of 1939, when Adolf Hitler took over the rest of Czechoslovakia. This was easy for him, of course, because the territory he was given surrounded the borders of Czechoslovakia. After this event, Neville Chamberlain, had finally realized that Adolf Hitler could not be trusted. And so ended the appeasement policy.

It cannot be said enough times that Neville would do anything to prevent a war from happening again and this is one of the things that gave Hitler more power. Had Neville not given into Hitler�s demands, not given up so much territory and listened to the warnings of others would the allies have had a better chance at winning the second world war? Though it cannot be certain it does seem more likely.