redlightning
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What if instead of declaring war on Germany in 1939 after it invaded and annexed western Poland, Britain and France remain neutral and allow the action to take place?
Both government's fall immediately and subsequent governments declare war. If for some reason they don't there are riots in the streets and both become massive international jokes for not honoring their guarantees to Poland. If they don't give those guarantees in May 1939 they probably fall early for not taking action to stand up to Germany; the publics of Britain and France would not tolerate further German expansion without war, even if the governments of Britain and France weren't keen on fighting in 1939.
Why die for Danzig?
Isn't he far more likely to go after Stalin first?Hitler attacks the Anglo-French in 1940.
What if instead of declaring war on Germany in 1939 after it invaded and annexed western Poland, Britain and France remain neutral and allow the action to take place?
Isn't he far more likely to go after Stalin first?
Exactly, they didn't do anything to help PolandHitler attacks the Anglo-French in 1940.
The German attack on Poland was the casus belli, but the real objective of the war was to eliminate the threat of a belligerent Germany. Poland was merely the trip-wire, the red line.
Isn't he far more likely to go after Stalin first?
Exactly, they didn't do anything to help Poland
Hell if the French attacked from the West , the germans didn't have the forces in 1939 to fight a 2 front war
My take on this is that without World War II beginning here, Germany is able to create puppet states out of eastern Europe with much greater ease. By 1942, Hitler still launches an invasion of the Soviet Union. This is crushed by the end of 1946 when the Russians march on Berlin. They still corral eastern Europe into communist satellite states.
Japan doesn't expand much in the Pacific outside of China either.