WW2: Asking for Trouble

It's completely baffling to me how anyone could have thought the way issues in pre-WW2 Europe were handled would have prevented war instead of provoking it. When Hitler started breaking the rules of the Treaty of Versailles by building an army and brought his troops into the Rhineland (which was supposed to stay demilitarized) the British policy of appeasement prevented anyone from hindering Hitler's attempts. Hitler just kept taking more and more land with Austria, the Sudentenland, and Czechoslovakia. It wasn't until he broke his promise to France and Britain to not take Poland that they declared war, six years after he left the League of Nations. Giving in to Hitler's demands in order to avoid war just made the war inevitable and harder to fight. They gave Hitler his way, and by doing that gave him more support and time to plan. The war could have been easier to fight had they just denied him to begin with.