Timeline of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact [complicity]

Timeline of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

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The timeline of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is a chronology of events, including Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact negotiations, leading up to, culminating in, and resulting from the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. The Treaty of Non-Aggression between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was signed in the early hours of August 24, 1939, but was dated August 23.

Contents [show] 1 Prelude 2 Diplomacy in 1939 3 Aftermath 4 See also 5 Notes

[edit] Prelude

See also: Soviet–German relations before 1941 and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact negotiations

• 7 November 1917: Bolshevik revolution breaks out in Russia, following the Russian civil war.
• 3 March 1918: The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk between the Russian SFSR and the Central Powers.
• 11 November 1918: The armistice between the Allies and Germany ends the First World War on the Western Front. After Germany’s collapse, British, French and Japanese troops intervened in the Russian civil war.
• 28 June 1919: The Treaty of Versailles formally ends the First World War.
• 16 April 1922: The Treaty of Rapallo between Germany and Soviet Russia renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other. A secret annex allowed Germany to train its military in the Soviet territory.
• 21 January 1924: The Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin dies. Within few years Joseph Stalin gains full power.
• 24 April 1926: The Treaty of Berlin between the Soviet Union and Germany signed, guaranteed neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party. A renewal was signed in 1931, ratified in 1933.
• 28 September 1926: The Soviet–Lithuanian Non-Aggression Pact signed.^[1]
• 21 January 1932: The Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact signed.
• 5 February 1932: The Soviet–Latvian Non-Aggression Pact signed.^[2]
• 4 May 1932: The Soviet–Estonian Non-Aggression Pact signed.^[3]
• 25 July 1932: The Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact signed.
• 30 January 1933: Adolf Hitler came to power.
• 26 January 1934: The German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact signed.
• 2 May 1935: The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance signed.
• 18 June 1935: The Anglo-German Naval Agreement signed.
• 17 July 1936: The Spanish Civil War breaks out. The Soviet Union and Mexico supports Republicans; Germany and Italy supports Nationalists.
• 25 November 1936: The Anti-Comintern Pact signed between Nazi Germany and Empire of Japan. The pact was against the Communist International in general, and the Soviet Union in particular.
• 29 September 1938: The Munich Agreement permits German annexation of Czechoslovakia‘s Sudetenland.
• 15–16 March 1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia; the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was established.
• 1 April 1939: The Spanish Civil War ends to victory of German-Italian supported Francisco Franco.

[edit] Diplomacy in 1939

Main article: Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact negotiations

• 10 March 1939: Stalin’s speech to the Eighteenth Party Congress.
• March 1939: Tripartite talks begin between the Soviet Union, United Kingdom and France.
• 31 March 1939: United Kingdom and France offer guarantees the independence of Poland, Belgium, Roumania, Greece, and Turkey.
• 28 April 1939: Hitler denounces the 1934 German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact and the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement.
• 3 May 1939: Stalin replaces Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov with Vyacheslav Molotov.
• 22 May 1939: The Pact of Steel (the Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy) signed.
• 7 June 1939: The German–Estonian Non-Aggression Pact and the German–Latvian Non-Aggression Pact signed.
• 19 August 1939: The German–Soviet Commercial Agreement signed.
• 23/24 August 1939: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed.

[edit] Aftermath

• 25 August 1939: The Anglo-Polish military alliance signed.
• 1 September 1939: Germany invades Poland.
• 3 September 1939: United Kingdom and France declare war on Germany
• 17 September 1939: The Soviet Union invades Poland.
• 28 September 1939: The German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation signed.
• 29 September 1939: The Soviet–Estonian mutual assistance pact signed.
• 5 October 1939: The Soviet–Latvian mutual assistance pact signed.
• 10 October 1939: The Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty signed.
• 30 November 1939: The Soviets troops assault Finland, starting the Winter War, lasting 105 days.
• 12 March 1940: The Moscow Peace Treaty between the Soviet Union and Finland signed.
• June–August 1940: The Soviet Union occupies and annex the Baltic states.
• 28 June 1940: The Soviet Union occupies Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina.
• 27 September 1940: The Tripartite Pact of Germany, Italy and Japan signed.
• 12–15 November 1940: Molotov’s visit to Berlin.
• 13 April 1941: The Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact signed.
• 22 June 1941: Germany assaults the Soviet Union.

[edit] See also

• Timeline of the occupation of the Baltic states
• Timeline of the Winter War

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Receuil des traités conclus par la Lithuanie avec les pays étrangés, Vol. I, Kaunas, 1930, pp. 429-435.
2. ^ League of Nations Treaty Series, 1934, No. 3408, pp. 123-125 and 127
3. ^ League of Nations Treaty Series, Vol. CXXXI, pp. 297-307.

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