Nazis, Soviets sign non-aggression pact

Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014

Viacheslav Molotov, the Soviet People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, agreed after hasty negotiations to conclude an economic treaty and a non-aggression pact that would partition Eastern Europe into Soviet and German spheres of influence. Ribbentrop signed the non-aggression pact during a visit to Moscow on August 23, 1939. The sides undertook neither to attack each other, nor to help any third party do the same. They agreed to settle bilateral disputes cordially.

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Germany cancels non-aggression pact with Poland and 1935 Naval agreement with Britain

Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014

The Germans said that “the British Government is now governed by the opinion that England, in whatever part of Europe Germany might be involved in warlike conflict, must always take up an attitude hostile to Germany, even in a case where English interests are not touched in any way by such a conflict.” Britain had by now, of course, given guarantees of aid for the first time to countries east of the Rhine. On April 28, 1939, in a speech

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Conscription in Great Britain

Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014

His Majesty’s Government asked Parliament to authorize it to introduce conscription.