The document discusses the policy of appeasement, where an aggressor's demands are accepted to avoid armed conflict, often at the cost of principles. It describes how in 1938, British Prime Minister Chamberlain signed an agreement with Adolf Hitler to appease Germany and avoid war by allowing the annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland region. However, less than one year later, Hitler invaded Poland, showing that appeasing the aggressor through concessions did not achieve "peace for our time" and failed to prevent further aggression from Nazi Germany as the policy intended.