How Appeasement (Almost) Worked: World War II 1929-1939 

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POV: You’re Neville Chamberlain and you just got news of Germany taking the rest of Czechoslovakia

In Czech Republic, when it comes to Munich, we call it Munich dictate, Munich betrayal or ,,O nás bez nás” (About us without us). We are still pissed about it and Chamberlain with Daladier are still blamed and hated.

Adolf Htiler: Invades rest of Czechoslovakia Neville Chamberlain: You lied to me Adolf Hitler: What did you expect? I’m Hitler

Hitler: I want that thing Chamberlin: You cant have that thing Hitler: *takes thing* Chamberlin: Ok fine you can have that thing but nothing more Hitler: i want that thing

Germany rearms: France & Britain simultaneously: You've got this one righ- France & Britain simultaneously: But I'm brok- Britain: You know what? Let them have the Rhineland its basically their backyard. France: Right, and Austrians are basically German. France and Britain Simultaneously: Either way, our army's will be ready, and we can just hold from belgium like last time. 🤝 (I know it's more complicated, but I thought this was funny)

Really love the small details like making the rifles accurate to whoever is holding them, small things like that scream commitment!

Lets not forget that czechoslovakia didnt want to back down. We were prepared to fight (proof mobilisation) but if we still stubbornly refused after the munich betrayal we would be labeled as the aggressors not the germans. Let that sink in how spineless this "strategy" of appeasement was

Chamberlain: So you promise you won’t be annexing any more territory, Herr Hitler? Hitler: Well yes, but actually no.

Hearing just how many times brittan had opportunity to stand up to germans, make Italians an ally, etc only to faulter, halt their allies, alienate potential allies, underestimate, just makes me angry. Although I thought, you'd mention, how the Allies stopped Poland from calling full mobilization prior to the war outbreak

🇬🇧 I gonna save Europe uh wait why did Germany invade Poland ? ? ?

The big problem I have with Appeasement is that, while yes it did buy time, that time was wasted by the British and the French. When the call to battle had been made, what did the French do? They largely sat on the border, unwilling to advance into German defenses that didn't exist. The British? They dropped leaflets. They could have done so much with what they had, and yet they chose not to. They could have even granted Italy some largely petty colonial posessions to get them on their side, and chose not to. While the argument could be made that the Soviet Union would get involved on Germany's behalf if France and Britain made a major push against Germany during the war with Poland, we will never know, and personally I think it was an injustice to the peoples of eastern Europe that their only hope was content to wait for Germany to come to them.

It’s kinda funny how much messed up stuff the soviets did in their own country, but when it came to international law, they just went: umm actually… 🤓☝️

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This video about the efforts of politicians, diplomats, spies and later generals really sells Georges Clemenceau quote: "War is too important to be left to the generals."

32:20 Yeah, Germans weren't ready for war at all in 1938. Their divisions were undermanned, since they simply didn't have the capacity to train more men, economy was close to crashing from constant rearmanent and Oster conspiracy was boiling. If only the Czechoslovaks didn't back down. The history would have been so much better

12:47 Enemies unlocked: France, Italy and UK. Reason? Forgot their island in the Mediterranean Sea.

poor old Neville tried his best to keep the world in peace

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Man the whole protecting the Sudetenland Germans by annexing Czechoslovak lands parallels the whole Crimea DPR and LPR situation. Though I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise considering Russian political leadership. Still at lest this time the allies stood up earlier.

This video is perfect for those taking AICE international history in highschool! Literally the entirety of chapter 3 in a video! Amazing work Ezekiel, people will be using this to study for years!

Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain consenting to Germany taking chunks of Czechoslovakia without their consent: sunshine and rainbows Germany taking all of Czechoslovakia without consent of Great Britain, France, or Czechoslovakia: madness!

So easy to "negotiate" when you give away land that isn't yours.

Germany: and I'd would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids

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,,(...)Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor.'' Józef Beck polish minister of foreign Affairs. Response to German ultimatum in may

Apparently the world didn't learn the lesson, that appeasement doesn't works

I was playing this in the background whilst i was playing HOI4, and the declaration of war speech at the end was perfectly timed with Germany declaring war on Poland in HOI

This video is beautiful, everything about this video is explained well, from the strategies of France and Italy to the explanation of how successful this period was. Major props to you.

What the hell did you say that the RU-vid censors keep pushing off the video? You explained the mustache man’s point of view, didn’t you squidward?

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A very interesting video for a very interesting topic. Chamberlain shouldn't be forgiven for betraying the Czechs, France shouldn't be forgiven for their complacency, and the Soviets shouldn't be forgiven for striking a deal with the devil.

I have doubts Chamberlain expected to go to war in X years and now is just not the time, but buying time and being diplomatic was the only good option so it's hard to hate him too much.

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thank you for covering this time period!

Honesty, I am happy to see a more charitable viewing of Appeasement and Chamberlain. Man had horrible and terrible options and people still call him an idiot for not taking the horrible option. Critism of this stubject usally are usally hosted by Captain Hindsight. At the very least, we are not making the same msitake with Putin. For now anyway

Germany: Annexes Austria and Czechoslovakia Britain and France: Oh no! Anyway....

I know the immense amount of work that goes into these videos, but an episode on the rise of Fascism in Italy would he a fantastic video.

french here, i wanted to scream so hard at some of the moments my country and Britain did... GOD.

I just love the background music

Great video. Interesting analysis of interwar period that is usually overlooked

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You have the choice between war and dishonour, you got both - Churchill probably

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I'm glad you gave Chamberlain a fair shake. He knew Germany would never stop with its invasion of neighbouring countries but couldn't confront them with the state the military was in at the time. He wasn't just a naïve fool or a coward.

Very good video. I have wondered but never set myself that much to him and as to why he did it. Always viewed this as an extreme fiasco, but this has put it in a better perspective.

This is such a well made video i learned alot about this period that i didnt before (also the countryballs were awesome!!)

great vid

Nice video!

7 may is crazy

This is an interesting explaination on the benefits of appeasement

Like for pretty well done and informative video, but as a Czech I just have to add few things. 1. At first the ČSR army mobilized 180K reserves+it already had 200K soldiers, but that was just first mobilization as things started to heat up, but general plans in case of war was mobilization of 1 120 000 men. Germany could use around 1,6 million men. It also started real modernization and conscription just 3 years before that, which wasn´t enough time to fully train them. 2. Plan of France to stop Germany was usage of the Little Entente whose members were also Romania and Yugoslavia. In 1938 both confirmed their help in conflict and started to mobilize their own forces. 3.The USSR couldn´t get its forces to ČSR (because both Romania and Poland really, really didn´t like them), but Romania was willing to let pass both resources and equipment and might let pass some forces in case of actual war. Also Soviets prevented Poland from attacking ČSR with Germany, which was great help too. 4. There are still some discussions, but generally it is accepted that ČSR army had resources for 2-3 months of war. Germany had resources for 1 month of war and enough aerofuel, bombs and other things for planes just for 2 weeks. Whole plan of Czechoslovakia was slow defence and retreat to next position rather than full faith in one static line as France did, which would probably prevent some quick war as Germany hoped. 5.As was said in the video Germans weren´t really eager for war either, by that time Germany still didn´t show its power and many Wehrmacht officers were sceptical about their chances, so there were plans for coup in case of war (and chances of coup would drastically increase during the war unless they had miraculous luck). Germany had to fight quickly or probably lose, but in contrast to their campaigns later during the second world war they didn´t have same advantages to actually do blitzkrieg. 6.In the video is said that both the USSR and the Western allies couldn´t get their forces to ČSR and so allies would have to attack from the West... which is what we wanted, their forces weren´t needed here. Even without their support there are to this day wild speculations whether we had to fight alone (and how high chance of winning did we have) or not, but with the help of the Allies the war would be over really quickly. The problem is that the Allies specifically said that in case of conflict they would blame Czechoslovakia, which means that they didn´t just act like our allies or even as neutral countries, but openly helped Germany, which is one of reasons why to this day we call it "Munich betrayal" and why Czechia was only part of the Eastern block where communists won in democratic elections without machinations, because after the war people remembered what the West did and that Soviets (for their own reasons to expand their influence ofcourse) were those willing to help.

32:54 “I have been talking with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and I have in my hand a piece of s#it.” 😂. IF only he had said that instead.

Germany: “ *Points to the Rhineland* I want that thing.” Britain: “Urghrh….okay, you can have that thing, but no more.” Germany: “ *Points at Austria* I want that thing.” And repeat

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This video came 2 months too late. I had this exact topic in my A-level exam :(. Thank you for this video non theless

Music lists please.

What's the name of the music at the start of the Czechoslovakia chapter? I feel like I heard it in a game or something.

A lot of Neville Chamberlains are still alive today

I hope to catch some attention with this, it'd be interesting to see the German perspective of appeasement and how it changed the lives of its citizens both new and old before the war

Good video.

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Very good Video but I couldn't help but notiece that you were using a lot of Hearts of Iron IV stuff

Thanks for humanizing Chamberlain. Propaganda from the forties has persisted to this day convincing us that he was just an idiot.

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The key was the Chain Home radar early warning system, the world's first successful radar early warning system for detecting incoming enemy aircrafts. Before such a system, "bombers could always get through" as the air strategist Donet remarked in the 1920's. Because fighters needed high initial altitude to convert potential energy to kinetic energy in a fast diving attack, by the time enemy bombers were in visual range the defending side's fighter-interceptors just taking off from airfields would be easy pickings for incoming bombers and escorting fighters. UK did not have the strategic depth necessary to defend London in the southeast of the country from incoming bombers attacks before the Chain Home radar system. It took late 1937 to early 1940 to finish installing the radar towers all along the south coast and east coast of England. So if war had started in 1938 instead of late 1939, Germany would have won the air war over southeast England, and RN would have been sunk by Luftwaffe in the English Channel before German tanks showing up in East Anglia. British government would have to withdraw to Canada. The door to the Atlantic would be wide open to German submarines and raiders based out of British and Irish ports. The entire east coast of North America would be open to constant attacks therefore would have to sign treaty favorable to Nazis, celebrating Nazis in the Canadian Parliament more than 75 years earlier than in our real time line. Chamberlain buying time to finish the Home Chain radar system was the only feasible strategy to have a chance at winning the war.

Something that can be said about the Versailles treaty, is that ironically, for the French, this treaty wasn't harsh enough. They wanted Germany to be completely dismantled to weaken the german enough to be easily manageable for the french army in case of another war. When they saw the new treaty modified by the americains and british, they knew Germany won't be weaken at all and they would have face them once again in roughly 20 years.

god the memes in this one are so good

4:07 NOT THE BAGUETTE SHOP

Is there a music reference list. This bangs

Cool video

Wow so cool now watch 10 times

Crazy how I chose to research British PMs today and saw this in Search.

please make a video about Argentine civil wars in the early history of Argentina.....

33:04 Damn, you got me there. I thought "man, I never knew Chamberlain sounded so much like John Cleese" only to find out that audio was from a skit John Cleese did to make fun of this whole debacle xD