People who lived through the First World War folded like a house of cards to Hitler, because they (mis)interpreted the pre-war situation as one in which the Allies refused to appease Germany enough.
Disagree. The reason the Allies folded at Munich IMHO was because they looked at WWI and saw themselves as being TOO EAGER to go to war. If you recall everyone was mobilizing their armies and marching towards the front, with the words "home by Christmas" on their lips. In the arena of European politics, the Allies had to ask themselves: is a 2nd, possibly catastrophic war with Germany worth the Sudetenland and the Czechs? Appeasing the Germans pre-WWI had nothing to do with it, IMHO.
To contrast this with more modern politics, the same question was asked in the '50s: is Budapest worth a nuclear war with the Soviets? When the US didn't move to foster the pro-democracy movement, or counter the Soviet invasion, did we buckle and appease the Soviets then? I see the same situation, just different names.
Revelations from the German archives show that this was an entirely incorrect interpretation, btw.
Certainly true. When the Germans marched into the Ruhr and the Rhine river valley, they had orders to turn tail and run at any sign of a counter from the West. The French certainly blinked in this situation.
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