Peace for Our Times 1938-1939

Some saw the only way to salvage peace was the idea of appeasement, repeating the disaster of WWI had to be avoided at all costs. Some were so blinded by it, that they either didn't see, or ignored, Hitler's all to obvious strategic manipulation of territories. With Adolf Hitler at the other end of the negotiating table, this was a strategy doomed to failure.
After the Anschluss in 1938, Germany turned next its attention to the still young democracy of Czechoslovakia, demanding the largely German-speaking Sudetenland. All attempts at diplomacy failed. The international community took no action -- and appeasement would become the League's modus operandi. The Germans annexed the rest of Czechoslovakia in early 1939 and the twenty-year-old nation vanished.
Britain and France respond with promises to Poland. Little more than 20 years after the guns fell silent, they roar back into life.