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I never heard of Kornilov Offensive. When did it happen?

On 5th January Józef Beck - Polish Foreign Minister - met with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden. During the meeting Hitler proposed that Danzig/Gdansk will become part of Germany, extraterritorial highway will be built through Polish Pomerania and Poland will join Anti-Komintern Pact in exchange of...

Poland is not joining Germany period. By March German intentions towards Poland were already known by Polish government.

I wonder why many posters insist in putting Poland in bed with Germany? While indeed Poland wanted Cieszyn back, they conveniently forget about Polish interest in Germany-held part of Upper Silesia and (southern) East Prussia...

It doesn't work like that - the successors inherit not only assets but debts too. So in this case William V's children would inherit his debts.

Doesn't Embraer possition itself explicitly below Boeing&Airbus offerings, passenger-size wise?

... I don't think that there were any plans or even ideas to rearm S&G with triple 350/380 mm turrets.

For Poland the only scenario I can envision in which it joins the Axis is: 1. Sudety crisis ends in a German-Czechoslovakian war 2. USSR decides to get their forces to Czechoslovakia no matter what and at the same time use a convenient excuse and invades Poland. And declares war on Germany as...

IIRC, at least the Brasilian ones weren't in good condition. And all South American battleships weren't prepared to face Baltic winter conditions.

Nitpick: Iron curtain wasn't built - it was a phrase coined by Winston Churchill in 1946. What you were thinking about is Berlin Wall. Also, Berlin Wall was built on orders of GDR government, not Soviet one.

That's a personal opinion of Churchill. Not a fact. It's not that Czechoslovakia was easier to dismember. Just that Polish territorial grievancies with it were possible to be solved at that moment, while those with Germany weren't. If France&UK bothered to defend Czechoslovakia and not throw...

If you're talking about Anti-Comintern Pact, it wasn't a military alliance. It wasn't even directly aimed against USSR, but Comintern. The only military agreement between Germany and Japan (and Italy) was the Three-Power Pact - aimed against USA. And Germany did declare war after USA ended in...

Sigh. No, if France jumps on Germany, Poland will as well, regardless of whether some agreement with Czechoslovakia is reached or no. Is it really that hard to comprehend that Upper Silesia & East Prussia & Gdansk are more important to Poland than Cieszyn? That Poland was allied to France and...

In 1938 Soviets were on side of Czechoslovakia. And nazi Germany is still their enemy - in Spain and elsewhere. They won't pressure Poland to give Germany free hand with Czechoslovakia. That's one contorsion too much even for Soviet propaganda. I don't believe that Germany well-being is what...

Germany wouldn't give away its territory (Upper Silesia, southeren East Prussia) and look the other way as Poland annexes Gdansk - and that's the only concessions Poland are interested in. Also Poland and France have a mutual defence treaty, while Poland and Germany have only a non-aggression...

Ofc? LoN was heavily influenced by the interests of UK&France, so it acting in favour of Poland is not guaranteed. You forgot to mention that Memel (Klajpeda) was taken over by Lithuania by force in 1923 - not a shining example of LoNs' might. First trans-shipments were in 1923, harbour was...

You forgot Australia. Jests aside, Russia's and USA's primary captive markets are those closest to them. For Russia - central and southern Europe, Middle East, for USA - Americas, western Europe, Pacific. The only place there may be conflict of interest is China. Russia has all the resources it...

Assuming, of course, Germany doesn't obstruct that trade. Considering OTL, I rather doubt German good will. It would need reorientating in case of German obstructionism. By 1939 50% (by volume, by value even more) of overseas Polish trade run through Gdynia. Hardly negligible. Which ones...

OTL before the tariffs war ~50% of Polish export went to Germany, most of the rest went through Gdańsk. With access to Baltic Sea wholly in Germans' hands, there would be no alternative route for export without completely reorientating the Polish transport network. For which there was no money...

Of course there wasn't. Popular front strategy came into being after 1933 and taking the government by NSDAP. Anti-SPD policy of KPD was in place before 1933.