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Episode 91, The British Empire Part 6, The Approach of War.

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actor in the push for the appeasement policies of 1938, it is generally impossible to discuss

British rearmament in the last two years

before the war, without including at least some level of evaluation of the period between the

Munich Agreement and the start of the conflict. This is because British appeasement and

rearmament efforts failed in one very obvious way. They failed to prevent the war. That is an easy place to start.

The more complicated issue to discuss is whether or not the British were in a better position

to go to war in September 1939 than they would have been in September 1938.

The analysis of this question forces us to start looking not just at British efforts,

but how they related to German rearmament efforts in the year before the war.

On the British side of the equation, the spending on rearmament would continue to escalate

at an incredible pace.

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