J14P11 Qn 6(c) Examiner Report

(c) Many candidates demonstrated an extensive knowledge of the details of appeasement. A number of candidates used this knowledge effectively to explain that Chamberlain was both right and wrong to follow this policy. Arguments focused upon the need for Britain to have more time to prepare for war, the memories of the carnage that occurred in the First World War, and, on the other side of the argument, the alarm caused to the USSR, the missed opportunities to stop Hitler and the point that appeasement was morally wrong. A number of responses simply described the policy of appeasement without explaining why it was right or wrong.