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Yeah? Well, not being from the US that's not quite how I heard that tale.
For one, who made the attempts? Gonna guess the implied "we" in that framing doesn't include Ethiopia, Spain, Portugal, Italy itself and a bunch of others, right? Not much appeasement going on in Guernica, you'll have to admit.
I mean, the underlying facts are the same, but appeasement as an attempt to pacify Germany versus appeasement as a politically convenient way to avoid intervention in areas where opposition to the fascists was heavily aligned with communist or broadly marxist stances are meaningfully different framings. Little of column A, little of column B, I have to assume. Lots of column ethnocentrism, almost certainly.