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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 5
Appeasement
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Appeasement
Concession
Sovereignty
Explain how a concession might serve an appeasement policy while affecting another state’s sovereignty. Why should an agreement’s stated intention be evaluated separately from its later results?
Read the situation.
Appeasement involves concessions intended to reduce tension, avoid war, or delay conflict. In September 1938, the Munich Agreement allowed Germany to take the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Britain, France, Germany, and Italy negotiated the agreement; the people and government whose territory was at issue did not participate on equal terms in making that decision. Evaluating the policy requires asking whose security and sovereignty it affected.
02 Organize the information.
Intention, term, or result?
Classify each statement by its role in the audit.
Sort the statements.
A. Stated intentionB. Agreement term or concessionC. Later result
Example
Category letter
1. Avoid a wider European war.
2. Permit Germany to acquire the Sudetenland.
3. German forces occupy the Czech lands in March 1939.
4. Reduce immediate diplomatic tension.
5. War follows Germany’s invasion of Poland in September 1939.
Explain one placement using a detail from the example.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 5
What does the evidence show?
Appeasement
03 Follow the evidence.
Test the lasting-peace claim
Claim: “The Munich Agreement secured a lasting end to German territorial aggression.”
Select all supplied evidence that challenges the claim.
German occupation of the Czech lands followed in March 1939.
Germany invaded Poland in September 1939.
A British leader expressed hope for peace after the agreement.
The agreement had official signatures.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
Avoid a certainty the record cannot support
A student writes: “Any different decision in 1938 would definitely have prevented all later war.”
Which revision is defensible?
The settlement failed to secure lasting peace; evaluating alternatives requires evidence about capabilities, choices, and likely responses.
Because alternatives are uncertain, the actual agreement cannot be evaluated.
All concessions in every historical situation necessarily produce identical outcomes.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write an agreement audit with a stated aim, a concession, two later developments, and an affected party. Explain the limits of a claim about what another policy would certainly have achieved.