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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Chamberlain’s appeasement policy was motivated by lessons learnt from WW1.

Chamberlain wasn't appeasing Germany, he was negotiating an alliance against Russia.

So much of the grade school education on the prelude to WW2 was calling France/England surrender monkeys. Very little details how the fascist movement had infiltrated these states and was fueling the movements in Germany, Italy, and Japan.

The entire world learnt lessons from WW1. They did the best they could to prevent another war just like it.

The massive debts assigned to the loser countries after WW1 and the stagnant industrial growth among the "winners" (such that they existed) propelled the planet into a Great Depression.

These were the same colonial patterns that had produced conditions for the First World War.

The countries that broke this pattern - Russia following the Bolshevisk Revolution, Germany under the Weimer and then Nazis governments, Japan during the Meiji Restoration and Taishō period, and the US under FDR - rapidly emerged as imperial powers best positioned to capitalize on stagnation of the Old World.