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In 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed a friendship pact, and promised that they would not fight. But shortly after that Hitler broke the pact.
Stalin did not want to go to war, and Hitler didn't want Stalin to attack him, so they agreed on a non-aggression pact in which they would split Poland in half and not attack one another for 10 years. Hitler did however agree to this non-aggression pact with all the intentions of breaking it in the future and attacking Russia, which he did. Also he joined this pact because it shocked the Western powers and made them think that maybe Hitler's territorial ambitions were not as strong or as bad as they thought and making them less concerned with what he was doing.
They signed what was known as the "Pact of Steel" .
Adolf Hitler opposed the Munich Pact in various ways and even broke it severally. Winston Churchill is also known to have out-rightly opposed this pact.
Hitler invaded the USSR in 1941.
Hitler wanted to keep allies with Russia of which Poland was a neighboring state.
nonaggression pact.
The Nazi-Soviet pact, or the non-aggression pact.
No, Brezhnev was 16 years-old when Hitler signed the non-aggression pact with Stalin in 1932. No, Brezhnev was 33 years old when Hitler signed the non-aggression pact with Stalin in 1939. And the Pact was signed by Molotov & Ribbentrop.
Adolf Hitler (Germany) and Josef Stalin (Soviet Union) created a pact not to go to war with each other. Adolf Hitler violated this pact when he invaded the Soviet Union.
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Adolf Hitler