aug 23, 1939 - German- Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

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Shortly before World War ll broke out in Europe enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonagression pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. On March 15, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Czezhoslovakia, breaking the agreement it had signed with Great Britain and France the year before in Munich Germany. Hitler disliked the photograph taken when the German-Soviet Nonagression pact was signed in the Krmlin because it showed Stalin with a cigarette in his hand. The Non-agression pact convinced hitler that Russia was vulnerable, gullible, and appeasing, and could be overrun in weeks following an invasion.

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