The Western European democracies of Britain and France did not want to get into a military conflict with Germany at this time as both had been reducing their armies and capability to engage in war.
This lack of will to fight shoved both countries towards the policy of appeasement which intricated giving into the demands of an aggressive country in the hopes that the aggression could be restrained.
The policy is intently linked to Neville Chamberlain who was the British Prime Minister at that time, as he is the one who proposed it as the best means of containing Nazi aggression and evading a world war.
This was the prime reason Britain and France were hesitant to confront Hitler and Germany in 1936.
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