LWSO 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Appeasement

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Law and Society
• Course: LWSO 337
• Professor: Ted Mc Coy

Document Summary

The uk was pacifist in its foreign policy despite its military strength, and refused to intervene in any one of the acts of aggression during the period---namely, the invasion of russia by poland, of china by. Japan, of ethiopia by italy, and the rejection of the treaty of. The uk instead attempted to organize peace talks and end the conflict without becoming involved themselves, an ultimately unsuccessful policy which allowed aggressive nations in the period to expand. There was no enthusiasm in the uk for intervention, though. During the spanish civil war, the uk led the nations of the world to pledge nonintervention, which was promptly ignored by italy, Germany, and the ussr, which all sent large amounts of munitions to their preferred side and in the case of the former two large numbers of soldiers as well. The british public was horrified, but as part of the new appeasement policies the government did not intervene in the conflict.