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The policy of appeasement caused World War II.

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CONTESTED PARTIAL
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Is it true that the policy of appeasement caused World War II?

Partly. One reference work reports that after Germany invaded Poland, consensus held appeasement responsible for World War II, while a scholarly reinterpretation explicitly rejects appeasement as a simplistic explanation and attributes the war to a broader intellectual failure. Both are partial: one reports attributed blame rather than proving causation, the other offers a competing single-cause thesis.

Verdict: CONTESTED PARTIAL · 2 sources for, 1 against · Last checked

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Evidence for · 2
Appeasement - Wikipedia
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Appeasement - Wikipedia. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement

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Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919–1939
2005
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Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919–1939. (2005). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511497353

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Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
2002
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DeConde, A., Burns, R. D., & Logevall, F. (2002). Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy. books.google.com. http://books.google.com/books?id=eUIOAQAAMAAJ&dq=The+policy+of+appeasement+caused+World+War+II.&hl=&as_pt=BOOKS&source=gbs_api

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