What if the Soviet Union invades Poland in November of 1938, a month after Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. What might happen? Would Germany, France, or Britain declare war on the Soviet Union? Or would they just allow it to happen?
I don't see any of the mentioned states to declare war on USSR. Throw it out of LoN? Yes. Send military aid to Poland? Yes. But no formal declaration of war. Of course it'd be interesting if the ships transporting arms & ammunition to Poland - and they would be doing it under the flag of one of the western powers - have been attacked by the Soviet Navy...
What if the Soviet Union invades Poland in November of 1938, a month after Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. What might happen? Would Germany, France, or Britain declare war on the Soviet Union? Or would they just allow it to happen?
Poland didn't ask anybody for "their slice". Warsaw simply sent demands to Prague and Czechoslovakian government, feeling completely isolated, agreed. And I don't think Poland wanted to destroy Czechoslovakia - after all, Hitler promised he had no other claims and that the rest of Czechoslovakia was safe. German occupation in 1939 was complete surprise as for Poland as for rest of Europe.I never mentioned a German Polish conspiracy. What I said was that Poland was on good enough terms with Germany to be asking for their slice of the corpse of Czechoslovakia.
Here I agree.And a war in 1938 would have given Hitler the opportunity to grab plenty of land in the East and defeat the International Jewish Bolsheviks at the same time, hardly an opportunity he would pass up lightly.
When did the UK and France guarantee Poland's independence? Had it happened yet? If so, they may declare war on the USSR, which would be pretty counterproductive for everyone (except Hitler).
while the Soviet Logistical Train isn't necessarily well equipped to drive to the Rhine River, Germany's armed forces and industry are in no position to really stand off the Soviets, and Nazi Germany's defeat is assured.