https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/sinister-alliance-soviet-german-relations-1939-1941
A Sinister Alliance: Soviet-German Relations 1939-1941. Joshua Rubenstein, author and associate at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, details the relationship between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the decade before World War II. Last Updated: July 25, 2014. facebook sharing.

https://www.britannica.com/event/German-Soviet-Nonaggression-Pact
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, (August 23, 1939), nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded only a few days before the beginning of World War II and which divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. Vyacheslav Molotov. The Soviet Union had been unable to reach a collective-security

https://news.nd.edu/news/historian-offers-first-deep-dive-into-secret-german-soviet-alliance-that-laid-groundwork-for-wwii/
In spring 1939, both Stalin and Hitler proved open to renewing cooperation and in August, the country's two foreign ministers signed a treaty of nonaggression, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. "Secured against the prospect of a two-front war, Hitler invaded Poland on September 1," Johnson writes.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-encircle-germans-at-stalingrad
On November 22, 1942, a Soviet counteroffensive against the German armies pays off as the Red Army traps about a quarter-million German soldiers south of Kalach, on the Don River, within Stalingrad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] ( USSR ), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with twelve countries. [u]

https://www.history.com/news/what-countries-were-in-soviet-union
The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. As part of its secret 1939 non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union seized the independent Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/the-changing-reading-the-hitler-stalin-alliance
The treaty, known in Germany as the Hitler-Stalin Pact (though more commonly referred to as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), laid the foundation for the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The Beginnings. On August 23, 1939, the German foreign minister's plane landed in Moscow. Joachim von Ribbentrop had reluctantly interrupted his summer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Soviet_Union_relations,_1918%E2%80%931941
German-Soviet Union relations date to the aftermath of the First World War.The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, dictated by Germany ended hostilities between Russia and Germany; it was signed on March 3, 1918. A few months later, the German ambassador to Moscow, Wilhelm von Mirbach, was shot dead by Russian Left Socialist-Revolutionaries in an attempt to incite a new war between Russia and Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_World_War_II
On 23 August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany which included a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe into German and Soviet "spheres of influence", anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. [2] Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II.

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/invasion-soviet-union
Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union, which was code-named Operation Barbarossa, on June 22, 1941, deliberately breaking the nonaggression pact that the two countries had signed two years before. The invasion was the largest German military operation of World War II. Battle victories came quickly throughout the rest of 1941, as

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20170949
Between the political arrangement of August 1939 and the German attack on June 1941, economic relations between the two states had increased in an extraordinary way. on the basis of the credit agreement of August 19, 1939, and the two economic. contracts of February 11, 1940, and January 10, 1941. While in 1939 the German.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-invade-czechoslovakia
On the night of August 20, 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring"—a brief period of liberalization in the communist

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/joseph-stalin-and-dissolution-comintern
Stalin had had all three murdered: Zinoviev in August 1936 and Bukharin in March 1938, after show trials, and Trotsky in August 1940. The silences in the resolution speak as loudly as the printed passages. Murders of old Bolsheviks—and with them their politics—are crucial subtexts of the statement dissolving the Comintern.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/us-soviet
Although relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had been strained in the years before World War II, the U.S.-Soviet alliance of 1941-1945 was marked by a great degree of cooperation and was essential to securing the defeat of Nazi Germany. Without the remarkable efforts of the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front, the United

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-soviet-pact
English. The German-Soviet Pact was an agreement signed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on August 23, 1939. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov negotiated it. The pact goes by several names: German-Soviet Pact, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazi-Soviet Pact, and Hitler-Stalin Pact.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Russia/The-Stalin-era-1928-53
Russia - Stalinism, Soviet Union, Cold War: Stalin, a Georgian, surprisingly turned to "Great Russian" nationalism to strengthen the Soviet regime. During the 1930s and '40s he promoted certain aspects of Russian history, some Russian national and cultural heroes, and the Russian language, and he held the Russians up as the elder brother for the non-Slavs to emulate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_the_Soviet_Union
The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics (Russian: Сою́зные Респу́блики, romanized: Soyúznye Respúbliki) were national-based administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The Soviet Union was formed in 1922 by a treaty between the Soviet republics of Byelorussia, Russian SFSR (RSFSR), Transcaucasian

https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/Toward-the-second-Revolution-1927-30
The U.S.S.R. gained the Karelian Isthmus, certain border changes in the north, and a base on the Gulf of Finland. Soviet Union - Collectivization, Industrialization, Five-Year Plans: Stalin had now achieved a majority in the Politburo. As he began to shift to the Left, he was opposed only by Nikolay Bukharin, Aleksey Rykov, and Mikhail Tomsky.

https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/svet/zrodila-se-velmoc-pred-150-lety-doslo-ke-sjednoceni-nemecka-39692
Sjednocení Německa přispělo v Evropě ke dvěma válkám, stejně jako dvě (starší) války přispěly ke sjednocení Německa. V první z nich bojovalo Rakousko, ve druhé Francie a jejich protivníkem bylo pokaždé Prusko - ambiciózní pobaltské království, které pod svou korunou nakonec spojilo území od Rýna až po Vislu. K vyhlášení Německého císařství došlo před

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_economic_relations_(1934%E2%80%931941)
German-Soviet economic relations (1934-1941) After the Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933, relations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union began to deteriorate rapidly. Trade between the two sides decreased. Following several years of high tension and rivalry, the two governments began to improve relations in 1939.

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjednocen%C3%AD_N%C4%9Bmecka
Sjednocení Německa, kterým došlo k politickému a administrativnímu sjednocení německých států do národního státu Němců, bylo oficiálně oznámeno 18. ledna 1871 v zrcadlové síni paláce Versailles ve Francii, kde německá knížata slavnostně prohlásila Viléma I. Pruského německým císařem po kapitulaci Francie v

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
In late February 1948, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia through a coup d'état.It marked the beginning of four decades of the party's rule in the country.. The KSČ enjoyed a period of popularity following the reestablishment of pre-war Czechoslovakia.

https://prezi.com/r-h9-hhthsn5/zjednotenie-nemecka/
Už Viedenský kongres určil že 39 malých štátikov sa spojí do Nemeckého spolku, avšak pod predsedníctvom Rakúska. Preto Prusko iniciovalo vznik nového Nemeckého colného spolku, v ktorom by nebolo Rakúsko. Tento počin bol prvým krokom k zjednocovaniu Nemecka.. Následne však v Európe vypukli revolúcie, po ktorých bol znovu