Chamberlain has become a mythical figure in history.
At the time he "enabled" the Germans, neither Britain or the US wanted another world war. Hitler had yet to invade Poland, France or Russia.
Roosevelt kept the US out for as long as possible, because the "conservatives" of the day resisted strongly, and because the American people resisted.
So if Chamberlain "enabled" the Nazi, so too did Roosevelt, the US Congress, and American voters.
Read real history, not mythical rewritings of history.
I have read "real" history, as well as taught it. So please allow me:
At the time he "enabled" the Germans, neither Britain or the US wanted another world war. Hitler had yet to invade Poland, France or Russia.Really. As though anyone wanted another war. By late 1938, Hitler had created the largest and best-armed fighting force in the world; the size, composition, and activities of which (in addition to Nazi broadcast propaganda) made it plain to anyone willing and able to pay attention that Germany had intentions beyond reclaiming the the Saar Valley or the Sudentenland. The
Blitzkrieg was not a surprise to those with access to news and information, except to the perpetually deluded.
Roosevelt kept the US out for as long as possible, because the "conservatives" of the day resisted strongly, and because the American people resisted.Oh, you mean "conservatives" like the America First organization (a great number of whose members were supporters of perennial Socialist Presidential candidate Norman Thomas), or Charles Lindbergh and Joseph P. Kennedy (both noted anti-Semites)? FDR for his part never really trusted Hitler's intentions, nor did he shy away from supporting Britain in 1941 through the "Lend-Lease" program by which the US provided war materiel to them in defense of their homeland.
So if Chamberlain "enabled" the Nazi, so too did Roosevelt, the US Congress, and American voters.
I do not recall FDR or Congress concluding a non-aggression pact with Germany and then proudly declaring that they had achieved "peace in our time". As for the voters, they were weary of the Depression and understandably wary of foreign intrigue, given the recent experience of WWI, in which they and not the politicians in Washington had been suffered to fight in pursuit of objectives that were no longer at all evident by 1938.
Appeasement, as such, is
not always due to poor character or evil intentions. Sometimes, people accept what they ought to fight simply because they are beaten down, or beaten up.
That, I believe is the case with Republicans who refuse to fight ObamaCare's implementation.