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.

Categories: Chronology of World War II

Defense Production Act / Production corruption

Defense Production Act

The Defense Production Act (Pub.L. 81-774) is a United States law enacted on September 8, 1950, in response to the start of the Korean War. It was part of a broad civil defense and war mobilization effort in the context of the Cold War. Its implementing regulations, the Defense Priorities and Allocation System (DPAS), are located at 15 CFR §§700 to 700.93. The Act has been periodically reauthorized and amended, and remains in force as of 2009.

The Act contains three major sections. The first authorizes the President to require businesses to sign contracts or fulfill orders deemed necessary for national defense. The second authorizes the President to establish mechanisms (such as regulations, orders or agencies) to allocate materials, services and facilities to promote national defense. The third section authorizes the President to control the civilian economy so that scarce and/or critical materials necessary to the national defense effort are available for defense needs.^[1]

The Act also authorizes the President to requisition property, force industry to expand production and the supply of basic resources, impose wage and price controls, settle labor disputes, control consumer and real estate credit, establish contractual priorities, and allocate raw materials to aid the national defense.^[1]

The President’s authority to place contracts under the DPA is the part of the Act most often used by the Department of Defense (DOD) since the 1970s. Most of the other functions of the Act are administered by the Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security (SIES) in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Department of Commerce.^[2]

Contents [show] 1 Korean War-era usage 2 Use as innovation tool 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] Korean War-era usage

The DPA was used during the Korean War to establish a large defense mobilization infrastructure and bureaucracy. Under the authority of the Act, President Harry S. Truman established the Office of Defense Mobilization, instituted wage and price controls, strictly regulated production in heavy industries such as steel and mining, and ordered the disperal of wartime manufacturing plans across the nation.^[3]

The Act also played a vital role in the establishment of the domestic aluminum and titanium industries in the 1950s. Using the Act, DOD provided capital and interest-free loans, and directed mining and manufacturing resources as well as skilled laborers to these two processing industries.^[4]

[edit] Use as innovation tool

Beginning in the 1980s, DOD began using the contracting and spending provisions of the DPA to provide seed money to develop new technologies.^[5] Using the Act, DOD has helped to develop a number of new technologies and materials, including silicon carbide ceramics, indium phosphide and gallium arsenide semiconductors, microwave power tubes, radiation-hardened microelectronics, superconducting wire, and metal composites.^[4]

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} “The Defense Production Act: Choice as to Allocations,” Columbia Law Review, March 1951; Lockwood, Defense Production Act: Purpose and Scope, June 22, 2001.
2. ^ Nibley, “Defense Production Act: The Government’s Old but Powerful Procurement Tool,” Legal Times, April 1, 2002.
3. ^ Pierpaoli, Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War, 1999.
4. ^ ^{a b} Mirsky, “Trekking Through That Valley of Death—The Defense Production Act,” Innovation, June/July 2005.
5. ^ National Research Council, Defense Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond, 1999.

[edit] References

• “The Defense Production Act: Choice as to Allocations.” Columbia Law Review. 51:3 (March 1951).
• Lockwood, David E. Defense Production Act: Purpose and Scope. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service. June 22, 2001.
• Mirsky, Rich. “Trekking Through That Valley of Death—The Defense Production Act.” Innovation. June/July 2005.
• National Research Council. Defense Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond: Meeting the Changing Needs of National Defense. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999. ISBN 0309063760
• Nibley, Stuart B. “Defense Production Act: The Government’s Old but Powerful Procurement Tool.” Legal Times. April 1, 2002.
• Nibley, Stuart. “Defense Production Act Speeds Up Wartime Purchases.” National Defense. June 2006.
• Pierpaoli Jr., Paul G. Truman and Korea: The Political Culture of the Early Cold War. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1999. ISBN 0826212069

Torture, Complicity and Unequal Treatment

TORTURE— repeat and deliberate infliction of suffering, including psychological abuse of inflicting suffering, incapacitation, and physical harm and calling me crazy(figuratively).

Denial of medicine including through adulteration, and denial of medical through feigned superficial care, simply ignoring diagnosis

Widespread target specific tampering, with respect to the petitioner. State of Maryland and Florida (96′ and previously) to present.

UNEQUAL TREATMENT–deprivation of the benefit of legislative actions specifically intended to benefit myself and others. ADA, Independent counsel Statute and some suspect beneficial legislation legislated by the state of Florida. Pharmaceutical substituting or tampering, obstruction of justice by denying victim medical treatment.

Unequal treatment regarding apparent witnesses and protected participants

1. The Government of the United States, the defendants used chemical restraints, incapacitating agents, debilitating agents, and toxic exposures. Several Presidential administrations committed conspiracy against rights. Executive administrations and executive departments utilized and coordinated federal, state, and local officials and private sector entities in unison. Private sector entities including retailers, vendors, private and public hospitals, caregivers and other service providers. Thus creating a hostile community environment for the plaintiff. Adulterated or drugged cigarettes, soft drinks, water, prescription and over the counter medicine, herbs, vitamins, food and supplements and the debilitation and danger hazards that comes with them are what the plaintiff is subject to. The plaintiff has been subjected to such for ten to fifteen years with something such cigarettes even longer. The most intense and thorough across the board problems span approximately three to five years
   

2. War time manufacturing
   control concepts like during WWII. Hitler and the Nazi’s did the same, with slave labor . In the modern scenario with a much more sophisticate twist, the Government’s production of altered deleterious products with manufacturers is no less evil. Compared to the Japanese interments camps, the modern kinder gentler approach of chemical repression is used. The reference to the US as the leader in high tech repression appears true.
   

3. The use of major tranquilizers known to cause brain damage, and Parkinson’s disease like symptoms by the community including pharmacist. These drugs were not allowed by law to be used without consent in the hospital and subject to habeas corpus procedures governing them as being a deprivation of liberty through chemical restraint.
   

4. The Government of the United States committed in the childhood of the individual (self) and CONTINUE TO COMMIT THOSE ACTS that cause and caused permanent injury to the plaintiff, including causing organic brain damage (ADD, attention deficit syndrome), motor retardation, and muscle skeletal malformations, and endocrine hormonal dysfunction. Dental malformation.