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Message: <blockquote data-quote="R_Chance" data-source="post: 9064938" data-attributes="member: 55149">Germany and Italy supported Nationalist / Fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Italy was far more involved than Germany btw. Britain and France failed to support Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement was violated and Germany occupied the rest of that country. The Czechs had been ready to fight before Munich, but were sold down the river for "Peace in our time" by their allies, which apparently meant about 6 months. As for the Pacific and Europe, two very different conflicts. My Dad was a WWII Europe vet (yes, I'm old) and my Uncle Jack went to the Pacific. Neither was too talkative. I didn't know much about my Dad's wartime experience until late one night when he got up soaked with sweat and started a pot of coffee. He had nightmares his entire life about combat and a concentration camp they liberated. That's PTSD in modern terms, and WW II vets had it too. My Dad had been wounded, decorated, returned to his unit, and was being shipped from Europe to the Pacific when the war ended. I gather they were a fairly depressed bunch about then. Then the bomb was dropped and the war ended. I'm not sorry he didn't get to make the direct comparison.</blockquote>