Appeasement was used by Europe before WWII in hopes that Hitler would get what he wanted (Which he claimed was just some more "Living space") and stop. The basically let him invade and take over a bunch of territories. This allowed him to gain a lot more power and land and let him invade and take over places before they could fight back. Appeasement let Hitler do what he wanted without immediate consequence.
Harrison Bergeron is a story belongs to satirical science fiction and was published in 1961.
The central subject is about a future society around 2081, where the smart people had to stop their capacities of intelligent and beauty because the government has controlled due to produce an equal society.
In this context there there was a boy called Harrison Bergeron who try to avoid the rules from the government and he wanted that everybody live without the "handicaps" but he was killed like a terrorist in hand of the system.
In resume, the actual versions of this story remains to many people the end of Bergerson for this reason the people in the studio expecting the death of him.
