In which case Raggy what are your assumptions based upon?

As far as logic and reason go you are on very shaky ground. You have no idea what US intentions and policy were. The world and it's dog knew what German intentions were, I believe that they were known to many at the time, which is why the deal was struck to prevent war breaking out in 1938.

Don't just keep rabbiting on about "you cannot know for certain" - show me that in stating what I have said where I am in error. Tell us all what miracle would have happened that would have saved Europe from War with Nazi Germany - please don't say Hitler could have been assassinated, or choked on a peanut - too stupid for words.

Gnome: Read your last post - I cannot make any sense out of it.

Chamberlain, Daladier and Mussolini got the Germans to come to an agreement at Munich in September 1938. Hitler wanted a war in 1938 to clear his way to attacking Russia. Hitler had the plan to attack Czechoslovakia "hot to trot" by 20th May, 1938. If there had been no interest in delaying the German plan and France stood by Czechoslovakia then war would have come to western Europe late summer 1938, immediately after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-aggression Pact had been signed and Great Britain and France would have lost that war in roughly 100 days - same time oddly enough that it took Field Marshall Earl Haig to defeat Germany in 1918 during the First World War - using the same tactics.