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Eisenhower Doctrine
After the fantastic loss of life in World War I the free peoples were willing to accept almost anything in order to avaoid another war. Since they did not realize just how evil and megalomaniacal Hitler was, they thought (or at least hoped) that by giving in to his various demands, each of which, taken by itself was not wholly unreasonable, that he would eventually be appeased and would not make further demands. Michael Montagne To prevent Hitler from taking over Europe Britain and France adopted the appeasement policy which gave Hitler a little of what he wanted in the hope of appeasing him.
Lebensraum was a critical ideology of NAZI Germany based on the claim that the superior race of Germanic people were being deprived of living space due to border restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. This policy was used to justify territorial expansion in order to displace inferior races and use the land and resources for the German people.
Based on the deal that Germany made with Lenin, he would pull Russia out of WW 1 if he came to power. He did and this allowed the Germans to basically only fight on the Western Front.
Not sure of your context, but MAD during the cold war referred to Mutually Assured Destruction. It was a deterrence theory that was based on the assumption that neither side would launch an all out nuclear attack because they knew the other side would do the same, thus ensuring that neither side survived.