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| Moscow Pact |
| An agreement between Nazi Germany and Communist Russia saying that they were not to fight each other. It also secretly held the plans for the partioning of Poland between the two powers. |
| Related: Pearl Harbour | Anti-Comintern Pact | Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference | Coral Sea and Midway, Battle of Stalingrad, El Alamein, Dieppe Raid | Battle of Kursk | D-Day | Fall of France, Battle of Britain | Anti-Commintern Pact | Appeasement, formation of the Axis, Reocupation of the Rhineland | Peace of Paris | Opperation Barbarossa |
| The invasion of Poland |
| Hitler and Stalin carried out their agreement laid out in the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact by invading Poland. Hitler got the West and Stalin got the East. This act is considered as the real beggining of the second world war because Poland was supposed to be defended by Britain and France. |
| Related: Pearl Harbour | Anti-Comintern Pact | Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference | Coral Sea and Midway, Battle of Stalingrad, El Alamein, Dieppe Raid | Battle of Kursk | D-Day | Fall of France, Battle of Britain | Anti-Commintern Pact | Appeasement, formation of the Axis, Reocupation of the Rhineland | Peace of Paris | Opperation Barbarossa |
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