Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
1939 · Event
The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact with secret protocols carving up Eastern Europe, clearing the way for the invasion of Poland a week later.
On these timelines: Germany, World War II, Master, Russia & the USSR, Eastern Europe & the Balkans
More from Germany
- German unification (1871)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
Around 1939
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)