Appeasement Worked

The year is 1934. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, came to power. In his early years as Fuhrer, he militarised the Rhineland, made a steady alliance with Mussolini's Italy, supported General Franco during The Spanish Civil War and signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan and Italy. On 12 March 1938, Hitler announced the unification of Austria with Nazi Germany in the Anschluss. Hitler then turned his attention to the ethnic German population of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Eventually, through the Munich Agreement, Sudetenland was given to Germany. After Hitler gained more territories through political maneuvering, his eyes turned towards Poland. On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded western Poland under the pretext of having been denied claims to the Free City of Danzig. Surprisingly, Britain and France did absolutely nothing but a program through wich military personnel could volunteer to aid the polish forces. Seeing this as an opportunity, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east. After the fall of Poland (wich was split in half between the germans and the russians), Hitler gave the order to his generals to begin the ethnic cleansing. On 1 April 1939, the Spanish Civil War ended with Francisco Franco and his falangist party coming on top. Three days later, Franco and Hitler secretly met in Berlin to discuss an alliance wich would come to be known as the Cardona Pact (wich was the spanish ambassador in Germany). On 9 April 1939, German forces invaded Denmark and Norway without declaring war. Seeing Hitler's dominance, Mussolini declared war on the two countries. Together, the fascist allies quickly annexed Denmark and Norway. At the Conference of Copenhagen, wich ensued after the short war, Nazi Germany took all lands and everything it gave Italy was an empty promise of Finland, wich severely hurt their relationship. Later that year, the two states conquered Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium, after wich Britain and France declared war on Germany. After this act, Hitler unexpectedly pushed hard with his armies for Paris. While the armies of the Third Reich were marching towards Paris with little resistence, the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, were left unprotected. The opportunistic British Navy landed troops in and outside of Dunkirk. The german army rushed some battalions to surround the franco-british army, wich they succesfully did. The Battle of Dunkirk started and after a few weeks, the nazis completely surrounded the enemy troops by sea and air as well. After this strategic succes, the Massacre of Dunkirk followed, in wich more than 500,000 franco-british soldiers lost their lives. This catastrophic blunder paved the way for the Second Treaty of Versailess, wich took place on 27 September 1940, the same day the Tetrapartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain. At the Second Treaty of Versailess, France was turned into an absolutist monarchy wich will be ruled by Wilhelm II, while all of Europe was forced to end all trade with Britain. What followed were peacefull times in Europe, for some time.