Policy of Appeasment
Soviet German Non-aggression Pact - Hitler and Stalin signed for:
Russia gave raw materials to Germany in exchange for money and weapons
Both agreed to stay neutral if the otehr entered the war
Secretly agreed to invade and split POland. Germany would get the west and the USSR the east.
Russia would get Finland, Estonia and Latvia and Germany would get Lithuania.
German invasion of Poland started World War II because the UK and France declared war on Germany on September 1st, 1939. Nothing happened from this declaration, though. It was The Phony War.
Tripartite Pact is signed by the three great Axis powers, Germany, Italy and Japan.
The main Allied powers were Great Britain, Soviet Union, US, China, and France. Along with Canada and Australia as lesser main powers.
Teh German Invasion of Denmark and Norway happened in the Spring of 1940.
Vichy Government - led by Marshal Henri Petain
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