attacks on Hawaii (and other Pacific possessions), Alaska and yes, California, some how "do not count" as attacks on US soil.

Several thousand Americans were killed during Dec. 7, 1941 and the perceived backbone of the Pacific fleet, the battleships on Battleship Row, were devastated. A Japanese submarine also succeeded in shelling an oil depot on the Cali coast which was much more of a psychological hit than material. The attacks creating a climate of vulnerability and fear in Hawaii and the West Coast which contributed to the decision to round up Japanese-Americans and detain them in camps.

There is no need to diminish the fears of one group to bolster the hardships of another group.

on his list for Cabinet positions.

We're up for a very ugly upcoming bunch of years here.

The worst period of the inflation was in 1923, also. It's not a mere coincidence that the Beer Hall Putsch and the inflation happened at more or less the same time.

In many cases, they were armed by the military, and were essentially an extension of the power of the rightwing aristocratic military officers' corp,  which opposed and despised the Wiemar Republic, not to mention the socialist movements that were strong in Germany at that time. (There had been a remarkable socialist uprising in Bavaria at the end of the war, which was running much of Bavaria for a brief time, until the army came in and crushed it.)

During the 20's, there were many assassinations of socialists, communists, labor leaders, and dissidents of various kinds. On the left. THose on the right were not attacked. This long period of violent suppression was important in laying the groundwork for Hitler's rise. Many of those who would have strengthened the opposition to him were already dead.

THe Wiemar Republic was ineffectual in significant part because they existed at the sufferenace of the aristocracy and the military it still controlled, and never dared go to far beyond what the military found acceptable.

was actually only superficially strong. It is a well known historical argument that the cultural and economic successes of 1920s Weimar masked serious structural and social problems.

and the loans from the USA turned out to be calamitous for Weimar because the USA called on the loans after 1929. Hence the effects of the Great Depression were especially strong in Germany.

but it did survive the hyperinflation crisis.  Challenging (or successfully subverting) the armed militias would have put it on the road to political credibility and stability.  The parallels to the government in Baghdad are startling.  Iraq is occupied by a foreign army, though.

And made his move when the Depression set it???

It is hard to imagine where you got that from.

There were a lot of factors that allowed the Nazis to form, exist, grow and eventually take power. The economy and reparations were major factors in radicalising and building membership for the nazis and fascists. From that membership they used positively Bushite barbarism to finally take power but economics, or to be more precise the extreme misery forced on the German working classes by the failure of german capitalism most certainly was the major seed. The racism and all the rest were merely scapegoating to redirect the attention of that radical group and germans in general from the real cause of their problems: plutocracy, capitalism and the murder for money we call offensive war.

...attribute traits to me that I have not professed,  I find your insinuation insulting and arrogant.

I did not insult you, I pointed out a flaw in your logic.

The Czech army had a reputation of being better than others in the area based on some history form regiments of the Army coming from what was historically the Austro-Hungarian army, but as an independent Czech state they had never fired a shot in anger.

At the time of Munich if a strong 1,000,000 man army was willing and able to stand up to Germany there was nothing to stop them. They chose not to as they knew they would lose without outside support and France and Britain in the end were not willing to go to war over German majority populated areas. The US was of course also not willing to go to war for the Czechs but for some reason Britain seems to always get the blame for not immediately supporting the Czechs while no blame attaches to the US for taking the same decision.

The Soviet Union was willing to fight for the Czechs IF France and Britain did too, but it feared it was being, manoeuvred into a position whereby France and Britain got Hitler to fight Stalin and we let both of them destroy each other, so was not willing to fight alone, and the Czech President Benes did not want to fight with only Soviet support as feared his country being destroyed or occupied by the Soviets.

Poland to the Czechs North took the opportunity to demand some Czech territory, which they took in late  38 and again in early 39 when Czechoslovakia was finally dismembered .

Hungary took the opportunity to demand some Hungarian majority territory from Czechoslovakia which they grabbed in November 38, when they had the opportunity, and they also took more in March 39 when the Czechs and Slovaks split.

Yugoslavia and Romania were allies of the Czech and had promised to come to their aid but when it came to it both refused.

Yes a World War just might have been avoided if Britain and France had stood up to Hitler in 1938 and backed the Czechs, it is possible Hitler would have been deposed in a military coup, but more likely.

Germans, Poles and Hungarians invade, Czechs are faced with 3 enemies and a large German minority supporting the Germans from behind the lines, and a significant Hungarian minority supporting their fellow countrymen.

The Soviets intervene to help the Czechs and cross Polish territory whether they agree or not.

So either Czechoslovakia is gone million man army or not before Soviet intervention or if it survives till the Red Army can get there and you have full scale war across large swathes of Eastern Europe with France and UK becoming involved, and potentially the conflict quickly merging with the still ongoing civil war in Spain.

The decision to partition their country was made by Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Daladier (who reneged on the Franco-Czech military pact).

Czechs resisted, they would be in direct hostility with the French and British. So even if the British didnt SAY it, THAT is what it meant. In pratical terms, evidently the Czechs would have enough of a hard time resisting the Germans alone without being able to count on France and the UK for ANY kind of support. THEY SOLD THE CZECHS OUT, as simple as that.