Now, replace Hitler with Putin; Sudetenland with Crimea; Chamberlain with Trump and Poland with the remainder of Ukaraine. In Churchill's words, "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed ...

Allied acquiescence to these moves emboldened him. During the summer of 1938, he demanded that Czechoslovakia cede the ...

called the Sudetenland, be given to Germany. After threats of war the Czechs were forced to accept Germany’s annexation of the area Britain, France and Italy arranged a series of conferences ...

However, the British government, led by Chamberlain, tried to make the dictator of Berlin see reason by negotiating peace on the sidelines of the Sudetenland crisis of September 1938 in ...