The focus was on Poland, to which Germany had made a series of territorialĬlaims. Powers, guaranteed the independence of several smaller European countries One side stood Germany, and on the other side Britain and France, who, as major The decisive factor when it came to determining the fate of the European war. Stalin had not yet been able to play a decisive role in major international politics, but the plans for a communist world revolution had not been abandoned and were awaiting implementation. In the second half of the 1930s, two totalitarian regimes emerged as new key figures on the European political scene, both of which were feverishly preparing to expand their powers.Īdolph Hitler’s Nazi Germany had gotten a head start on Joseph Stalin’s Communist Soviet Union (USSR) – in 19, Germany had already annexed Austria and part of Czechoslovakia. On 23 August 1939, the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Vyacheslav Molotov, his counterpart in the Soviet Union, signed a non-aggression treaty – the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – and its additional secret protocols that divided the spheres of influence between the two totalitarian powers Meelis Maripuu looks back at the unfortunate deal that affected Estonia until 1991.*
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