Answer:
The correct answer is C. Along with the American Neutrality Acts, the appeasement policies in the mid-to-late 1930's of Britain and France caused totalitarian nations to believe they had nothing to fear from democracies.
Explanation:
Impressed by the high cost in human lives of World War I, European political groups were convinced that peace with Germany should be maintained at all costs, even if they had to ignore Hitler's constant violations of various international treaties.
The height of this policy came at the 1938 Munich Conference, at which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain accepted Hitler's guarantees to maintain the European balance, sacrificing Czechoslovakia to Germany. This made Hitler and his regime feel even more emboldened to venture into more territories, believing that British and French would not have the guts to cope with it.
The invasion of Poland in 1939 demonstrated the failure of the appeasement policy, which caused Chamberlain's defeat in a House of Commons.
