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 The Ribbentrop-Molotov (Nazi-Soviet) Pact

On the surface, the Nazi-Soviet Pact is an amazing and shocking event ... but it is not so surprising when you know what was going on..

     

Factual information

  

 

Explaining the Treaty

Results of the Treaty

  

  

Interpretations of the Treaty
  

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Factual information
•   Events leading up to the Treaty

•   The British delegation

•   The economic agreement of 14 August

•   The Ribbentrop negotiations

•   The proper name and terms of the Treaty, including:

•   The secret protocol

Why Britain procrastinated
•   The different reasons for the British reservations about a Treaty with Russia ... explained

Why Hitler wanted a Treaty with Russia

•   The different reasons why Hitler wanted a Treaty with Russia ... explained

•   The importance of Poland's refusal to make an agreement with Hitler.

Why Stalin chose Hitler not Britain
•   The different reasons why a Treaty with Britain was not good for Russia ... explained

•   The different reasons why a Treaty with Hitler was good for Russia ... explained

Results of the Treaty
•   On Hitler...

•   In Britain...

•   For Stalin...

•   Long-term results

British Opinions/Interpretations of the Treaty
•   The Cartoonists

•   Churchill

Russian Opinions/Interpretations of the Treaty
•   The Suvorov theory

•   Putin's statement