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Appeasement (noun)

1. The act of pacifying or placating someone by acceding to their demands; making concessions to avoid conflict or anger.
2. (historical/political) A policy of making concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid war — commonly used for British and French policy toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Example: "Critics argued that Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler made war more likely, not less."

Synonyms: placation, conciliation, concession.