Who Started World War II?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn

About Hitler's proposals about the Danzig corridor problem, I see nothing unreasonable. Please tell what could happen if Hitler did "as in Czechoslovakia", as you say ? And would it be even possible ? Poland was not Czechoslovakia (a totally artificial state) ...

Hitler betrayed the ideals of the Munich Agreement, up until that point Britain was reluctantly willing to do business with Hitler, to stave off the war that no-one in Western Europe wanted. No-one who had any memory of the First World War and the horrors of the trenches on the western front could have possibly wanted another major war. The public had no stomach for war, and so Chamberlain did not challenge the taking of the Sudetenland, and even forced the Czechoslovakians to accept the terms.
After Czechoslovakia Britain and France came to the decision that trying to make deals with Hitler probably wasn't going to work, and that war was likely.