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Japan doing a Neville Chamberlain…
Wait, that letter of assurance didn’t work? My World History class in HS ran out of time and the last thing we covered before summer break was his speech proclaiming steady and enduring peace in Europe. Ah crap, what happened next? Was it something bad?
Yeah, the aftermath was actually less than ideal
This is bad history.
Please explain what Chamberlain was supposed to have done differently. Explain how he was supposed to protect Czechoslovakia with zero military presence and zero contact with any resistance. Explain why Churchill’s plan to protect Poland was identical to Chamberlain’s plan to protect Czechoslovakia. (thoughts and prayers)
No, the “Chamberlain could have stopped Hitler if only…” meme is reactionary missive against diplomacy. It makes perfect sense, if you don’t think about it.
All he had to do was to not force Czechoslovakia to surrender and he didn’t need military presence in Czechoslovakia, deploying troops to France might have been enough. Czechoslovakia had mobilized 1 million man strong army, which would have been able to hold Germans for a considerable time. Not to mention he might have been able to get Poland to join.
Also I am not sure about which Churchill’s plan to protect Poland you are talking as by the time Churchill became a PM, Poland was conquered and Germany was just starting attack on France.