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Episode 106, Highway to the Danger Zone, Part 4, the hotter, the intensity.

This week, a big thank you goes out to new members,

Scott, Christopher, Bruce, and other Scott. You can head over to History of the Second World War.com slash members to find out more about the membership program. While war would start with Germany

invading Poland in September 1939, the period between March and September were very active for France and Britain, as they tried to find their path forward after it was clear that their previous appeasement efforts were not going to have their intended effects.

There were three main avenues that would be pursued, an increasing focus on rearment,

discussions with Poland that would make it far more dangerous for Germany to attack the Poles,

and negotiations with Russia to form some kind of alliance.

We will start with the Polish guarantee, which would be provided by the British government to Poland in the spring of 1939,

and it would then be the basis for an alliance that would be signed in the weeks before the German invasion.

We will then close out the episode by looking at the efforts of the British and French to

enter into an alliance with the Soviet Union, an alliance that both London and Paris would

claim they wanted, but their actual actions would kind of prove otherwise. At the end of this

episode will also be a full reading of the agreement of mutual assistance between the United Kingdom

and Poland, which would be signed in London in 1939. This episode features several quotes from

public speeches given by various politicians, and quotes from

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