The british government refused to believe that germany wasn't ready for war. The unopposed re militarization of the rhineland and the munic agreement over tekavarcia persuaded hitler that he had nothing to fear from the feeble, witless british and their supine allies the french. Events, along with the unopposed annexation of austria in march 19 38, all fruits of the policy of appeasement, made him accelerate his policy of conquest and aggression. Strong action by the british 19 36 or 38 could have prevented war with all its disastrous loss of british lives. It would have encouraged resistance to hitler within