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We've just got a nice discussion on what if Chamberlain didn't give Sudetenland to Hitler, and it is a nice one.

Now let us consider a similar scenario: Chamberlain had made the same agreement with Hitler, but Beneš refused to comply with it.

It seems the Czechoslovaks will not choose this devastating path. But in the same time period, the Finns fought a strong USSR in the Winter War, and it is not inconceivable that the Czechs do not have the same determination.

Then what would happen? We could reasonably expect the Fall Grün would be executed. But will Britain and France be pushed to war by public opinion afterwards? And, if this do not occur, would Germany, without the Czech industry and arms and weakened by the war, still invade Poland and conquer Western Europe in 1939-40 as in OTL?

Please discuss.
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