Answer briefly each of the questions (a) to (j):
State the significance of the policy of Appeasement as a cause for the Second World War.
Topic: The policy of Appeasement
Answer
Appeasement was the policy of Britain and France of giving in to the demands of the dictators in the hope of avoiding war.
Its significance is that it ENCOURAGED AGGRESSION instead of preventing it. Hitler was allowed to rearm Germany, to remilitarise the Rhineland (1936), to annex Austria (1938) and, by the Munich Pact of 1938, to take the Sudetenland — each time without resistance. Every concession convinced him that Britain and France would never fight, so he grew bolder until he invaded Poland in 1939 — and by then war could no longer be avoided.
Two marks: define the policy, then explain its EFFECT — the question asks for its significance as a CAUSE, so the answer must show how it helped bring the war about. The examples in sequence are what make the argument: Rhineland 1936, Austria 1938, Munich 1938, Poland 1939. Chamberlain’s phrase after Munich, "peace for our time", is worth quoting for the irony — war followed within a year.