If Hitler was Forced to INVADE Czechoslovakia

Yeah, because when the Germans got to Warsaw, the defense stiffened, and the Germans couldn't get any headway. But then the Russians came in, and there was no chance after that. And since Czechoslovakia had a better military, it would take way longer than Poland did.

If Czechoslovakia had been invaded, well, history would be changed. Just think about it: the Czechoslovaks had fortified their border with Germany, and had already started a partial mobilization because of the increasing tensions between the countries. Many German generals later stated that if Germany had invaded Czechoslovakia, the German army would be bogged down, especially if France and the UK joined and pressed the western border of Germany. Germany at the time could not have had enough troops to deal with invading Czechoslovakia and defending the the massive Western border with France. And if Russia joined, well then Game Over for Germany and Adolf Hitler.

Fortunately for Hitler, none of those things would've happened. Britain was nowhere near as prepared for war as it was in 1939, and even then it took a year before any fighting occured, not to mention that Chamberlain came back from Munich to cheering crowds; those same crowds would not have supported joining any conflict that broke out (not that that helped in 1939, but oh well). And anyone who assumes the USSR would have joined a war against the Nazis in any context other than Operation Barbarossa is a fool. Although saying that, i'd be willing to say that Stalin was quite prepared to break the Nazi-Soviet pact himself.

But Hitler wasn't prepared for the possibility of a two front war. So it would have been better at the time if the Western powers at least backed Czechoslovakia, and not left it to the Nazis.

The Nazi-Soviet pact wasn't yet signed and the USSR was a supporter of the Czechs.

That's assuming Britain and France decided to actually do something after they declared war. If France had attacked Germany while they were invading Poland, it would have been a disaster for Hitler as well. Considering they did not do it then, what makes you think they would act during the invasion of Czechoslovakia?

France and the UK weren't ready for war. The Munich Pact was really either designed to achieve peace or more realistically buy time for the two countries to get their war machines gearing up.

France and the UK weren't ready for war and their people didn't want war. They were still thinking about the millions of men they lost in the First World War. If you look at France in 1914 people were in the streets cheering, in 1939 that didn't happen.

Makes you wonder why we did go to war, although luckily, it turned out to be the right(ish) decision.

Didn't the UK go to war because you guys were honoring your alliance with Poland or something like that?

Yeah, which makes me wonder why didn't do the same with the Soviet Union and makes what happened to Poland during and after the war so much worse.

Well on offence to Poland, but the Soviet Union was a more important allie in the war aganist Germany and after the war if they tried to do anything aganist the Soviet Union that could of set off another war.

I really wish Chamberlain grew a back bone, and at least tried to stick up for Czechoslovakia, and if he didn't expect Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia, there was Austria as proof.

Well neither Britain nor France was ready for war at the time. And the people didnt want war. I despise Chamberlain, but I don't think he really could have done much different given the situation and the want to preserve peace.

But France and Britain weren't ready in 1939 either, and Hitler didn't want a war on two fronts, he understood that if Britain and France even joined, then it would be over for him. Germany simply couldn't have handled it, even if no ground forces were ever even mobilized. And we can't forget the possible coup of German generals that got together to overthrow Hitler if he invaded Czechoslovakia. While they had as much backbone as Chamberlain, there is still a chance they may have actually acted and overthrown Hitler.

Well by 1939 the public in Britain had become disgusted with Hitler and Chamberlain, for the way Chamberlain acted previously, so he was almost forced to at that point defend Poland.

And the British and French sure helped out Poland.

Thats why Hitler was lucky that even after France and UK declared war on Germany on Sep. 3, 1939 that the UK and France didn't attack other than a Small French attack into the Saarland, which is know as the The Phoney War.

Hitler was one lucky person, and I am being serious, he is just plain lucky.

KaiserReich would happen.