This presentation by Prof. Timothy Snyder, a historian, discusses the mass killings perpetrated in the Eastern European “bloodlands” – the area between Berlin and Moscow – by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

This video includes footage of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announcing that an agreement had been signed with Adolf Hitler – the most noted example of appeasement in modern times.

In this Hoover Institution interview, Prof. Bruce Thornton discusses historical examples of the strategy of appeasement (beyond the Munich Crisis of 1938.).

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/collective-security/query/Hoare

This is a brief segment from a 1935 newsreel features Sir Samuel Hoare, the British Foreign Minister, speaking about Britain’s commitment to collective security.