HIST 388 Lecture 2: 388 - Week 3 – Lecture 2 - War Begins .docx
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1939: taylor hitler paid stalin what britain couldn"t pay him the baltic countries, a 1/3 of poland and other se. Somewhat tricky situation since the su was making a non-aggression pact with japan"s allies = secretive relationship between the two allies. 26th march 1939 poland declined having been encouraged by the british government to do so w. no concessions to germany. Hitler ordered his generals to be ready for combat and cancelled the german-polish non-aggression treaty and the. There were negotiations between britain and germany/germany and the su with trade talks" to begin the proceedings: british were not wholehearted with these talks whislt stalin was more worried about germany than about. Britain = result was the hitler-stalin pact of 23 august 1939 which had a number of secret annexes (denied for decades post-war) Germany was to have lithuania and poland as well as vast amounts of supplies from the su which the.
