Appeasement was the policy adopted by France and Great Britain in the 1930s with regard to the reign of Adolf Hitler. They allowed him to do what he wanted, essentially to avoid going to war. In 1938, for example, Britain and France gave the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) to Germany without consulting with Czechoslovakia. This event was called the Sudeten Crisis, and epitomizes the appeasement policies of France and Great Britain towards Hitler.
