How and why did France and great British try to avoid war with Hitler?

Answer 1

Britain and France had a defense agreement with Poland. On 1 September 1939, German forces attacked Poland so on 3 September 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

They wanted to stop Germany before it became too powerful. Poland was just an excuse, the British showed how little they cared about Poland in 1945. The Soviets also invaded Poland in 1939, and nobody declared war on them. (The previous month, August 1939, the Nazis and Soviets made several secret agreements. One of the was the partition of Poland between Germany and Russia.)

• They had the treaty to protect Poland, but when Germany invaded Poland they didn't do anything about it therefore backing out of their treaty with Poland. but that's when France went to Britain to ask if they could help the polish and Britain said yes. so that is why France and Britain declared war on Germany.

• These comments are very valid. European leadership(including the United States) did not want Germany to become a powerful nation following WWI. Politically and economically many countries were insecure about German unity built on the "Volk".

• While all of the above points are valid, another reason France and Great Britain went to war with Germany is because they had already gotten Germany to agree twice (Munich Agreement 1938) not to invade any more places, but Germany had broken both of these agreements, so this was the "third strike".

• Britain and France had never wanted to declare war on Germany, full stop. They didn't want to cause another world war one where both side would lose yet another generation of young men. So they tried to use diplomacy to retain peace in Europe. Hitler felt when he took power in 1933 that the Slavs and the east was the true enemy to the Germans and tried to get an alliance with Britain against communism as in his book "mein kaumf". But when they declined, Hitler invaded Poland on September 1st. Originally it was set for 21st August but was put back because of the weather. But on the 23rd, Britain, France and Poland signed a treaty that created an alliance between these counties. When the Germans invaded Poland, Britain gave Germany 48 hours to pull out or a state of war would exist between the two counties. So at 12.00 on 3rd September after no response to the ultimatum was heard Britain declared war followed by France at 15.45

• Britain was unable to do anything practical to help Poland. Britain had no direct access to Eastern Central Europe. At best Britain could have helped by proxy, for example if they, together with the French, had attacked Germany in the West. It has sometimes been pointed out that the declaration of war in 1939 was a moral gesture or some kind of grandstanding or possibly an attempt of some kind to "put right" the mistake of the previous year at Munich. The actual "casus belli" or grounds for war weren't well chosen. (In May 1939, Churchill and Lloyd George had expressed doubts about the guarantee to Poland when it came before Parliament. Churchill suggested that Britain had chosen the wrong ally, and that it would make better sense to try to negotiate a treaty with the Soviet Union).

Answer 2

Germany had reoccupied the western half of Poland, which had been a protectorate of Prussia and Germany from 1792 to 1918. Afterwards, France and Britain unfortunately declared war on Germany without any ability to bring a new, large scale conflict to a resolution.

Neither had substantially invested enough in their militarys to justify an adventure in Germany. Therefore this declaring of a regional war guaranteed a world war, since overseas powers would have to be brought in to prosecute any conflict.

Subsequently, the United States was logistically drawn in to the conflict to back up the British and French, and the Japanese were brought in on the side of the Axis to severe the British and French from their Pacific territories.

The British and French unfortunately had stabbed Germany in the back by first agreeing to the status of the western portion of Poland at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 (which was similar to our Congress of Philadelphia), and then in 1919 used an opportunistic moment to carve out modern day Western Poland from Germany and Austria.

The big losers of this starting of World War II were the western poles, who as a consequence of this world war, were occupied and turned to slaves or subjects of the Communist regime of Josef Stalin. This imprisonment of Poland lasted 60 years until she broke free, and rejoined the European Union from which she started and became an economic protectorate of Berlin once again.

Now the Germans and Austrians are slowly rebuilding western Poland and teaching them how to conduct western style business like they used to be able to do in the 1800s.

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A small chronology of these events can be found in the new movie "The Kings Speech" which shows the treacherous Winston Churchill doing his utmost to sabotage the relationship between the King of England, his American fiance, and Foreign Minister Ribbentrop of Germany.

Churchill, after calling the King's fiance "An American prostitute from Shanghai" gets the King of England kicked out of office for wanting to marry an American woman, and then Churchill installs an evil or at best naive King who was openly hostile to the friendship enjoyed by America, Germany and England.

Churchill was successful with his conspiracy and the result was a World War with 100 million dead people.

The good King of England and his American fiance fled the country, and were prevented from contacting foreign minister Ribbentrop of Germany any further.

This prevented any possible way out and Churchill's desire for a global conflict and a new partitioning of Western Europe under British influence and NATO dominance was realized.

Answer 3

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With the Munich agreement, when they gave Czechoslavakia to Germany

Answer 4

Britain and France used Appeasement with Germany by condoning their acts against the Treaty of Versailles and giving them the Sudetenland.

Answer 5

Appeasement.