Appeasement was a failure. And enabled Hitler a lot. It also gave him legitimacy. And no, the USSR did not start the war, that "honour" goes to Germany. The US

Appeasement was a failure. And enabled Hitler a lot. It also gave him legitimacy. And no, the USSR did not start the war, that "honour" goes to Germany. The USSR did grap its portion of Poland so. Regarding Munich, even worse, Czechoslovakia wasn't really consulted neither. Edit: The war in Europe was ended by all allies, including the USSR. And that the USSR did most of the fighting, and dying outside the holocaust, should be crystal clear to everyone who ever read a short history of WW2 on wikipedia.