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5 days ago · The treaty was the culmination of negotiations for an economic agreement between the USSR and Nazi Germany which the Soviets used to obtain a political agreement – see Nazi–Soviet economic relations (1934–1941) § 1938–1939 deal discussions. On 22 August, Ribbentrop flew to Moscow to finalize the treaty, which the Soviets had sought ...
- 23 August 1939; 84 years ago
1 day ago · The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I , it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers . It was signed in the Palace of Versailles , exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand , which led to the war.
- 10 January 1920
- Ratification by Germany and three Principal Allied and Associate Powers
- 28 June 1919
Apr 9, 2024 · Anschluss, political union of Austria with Germany, achieved through annexation by Adolf Hitler in 1938. Mooted in 1919 by Austria, Anschluss with Germany remained a hope (chiefly with Austrian Social Democrats) during 1919–33, after which Hitler’s rise to power made it less attractive.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · The Anti-Comintern Pact, [1] officially the Agreement against the Communist International [2] was an anti-Communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan on 25 November 1936 and was directed against the Communist International (Comintern).
- 23 October 1936
- Pact
- 25 November 1936
Apr 5, 2024 · The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived.
Apr 8, 2024 · At the time of Munich Chamberlain thought that all Hitler’s ambitions were limited to absorbing the Sudeten German areas of the Czechoslovak Republic. What he really wanted was ‘to smash Czechoslovakia’. True, the Munich agreement thwarted him in that ambition in the short-term, but he got what he wanted not even half-a-year later.
Apr 16, 2024 · The Paris Agreement set out to improve upon and replace the Kyoto Protocol, an earlier international treaty designed to curb the release of greenhouse gases. It entered into force on November 4, 2016, and has been signed by 195 countries and ratified by 190 as of January 2021.
