Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggresion Pact
- Stalin signs non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1939
- Agreed not to fight each other
- Agreed to divide Poland
- Began to trade raw material for war material
- Also called Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
Attempts at Normalization
- Soviet Union tired to participate in World affairs in the 1920s
- Signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928, denouncing war
- Joined the League of Nations 1934
- Signed carious non-aggression pacts
- Shared concern of the west about Fascism and rise of Japan in the 1930s