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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 103, Highway to the Danger

Zone, Part 1, out along the edges. This week, a big thank you goes to Tim for choosing to become

a member, gaining access to ad-free versions of all of the podcast episodes. You can find out more

at History of the Second World War.com slash members. The next five episodes are going to be something

of a grab bag of random topics. There are going to be a few very important topics that

we will discuss with the goal of bringing the story of the interwar years up to the point where

we can really focus on Poland starting in episode 109. This will include the British and French

guarantee to give in the spring of 1939 and the creation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop

pact between Germany and the Soviet Union just weeks before the German invasion of Poland

in September 1939.

But then there's also just a few random things that I want to talk about.

This episode in particular is a perfect example of how that might work.

The bulk of this episode is going to look at how some of the smaller nations of Europe

were approaching the increasingly dangerous political situation in Europe during the 1930s.

In Eastern Europe, there were various agreements between nations

who tried to rid themselves of previous disagreements between themselves

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