Sucking Up: Homeschooling Appeasement of Hitler and the Outbreak of WW2

Thursday, April 30th, 2020

Sucking Up: Homeschooling Appeasement of Hitler and the Outbreak of WW2

Who knew that SUCKING UP had a history? Well it does, and it’s all about the APPEASEMENT of Germany in an attempt to keep the peace before the outbreak of World War II. James and Sam brainstorm examples of sucking up from across history, focusing especially on Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with discussion of the Anschluss that unified Austria and Germany, the Sudetenland and Munich agreement which promised ‘peace in our time’. Was it all a matter of sucking up, or a clever way to buy time to prepare for a major global conflict?

 

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