CAS IR 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Locarno Treaties, Austrian Nationalism, Engelbert Dollfuss
10 Nov 2017
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The is absolutely committed to appeasement because of the below reasons: traumatic memories of the great way, everyone in europe remembers ww1 and the human costs of that war. Everybody had someone who either died or injured in that war. The objective was to prevent another one from occurring. These traumatic memories are going to play on people"s mind. Let"s do everything we can to prevent the outbreak of another war. Brtisih are afraid of air raids so they want to prevent that from happening. Guilt feelings about the treaty of versailles: there was conflict between the big 4 about how to treat germany, lloyd george is an ad(cid:448)ocate of leniency. Didn"t (cid:449)ant to create a desire for re(cid:448)enge from germany. But france opposed this as they wanted to destroy france. At the end of the peace conference, britain believed that they were too tough on the. This is particularly in relation to the reparations that germany had to pay.
