How did the Hitler-Stalin Pact affect the outcomes of World War II?
Not long before the second world war, Germany was invading neighboring countries such as
Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. Britain was fearing German expansion and immediately
needed to take action against Hitler. As Hitler was not an easy target, the most powerful nation
Britain could ally with to prevent Hitler from continuing was the Soviet Union. Hitler feared this kind
of association and tried to sympathize with the Soviet Union , ending with the Hitler-Stalin Pact ,
also known as the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. The Non-agression pact stated that the two nations
would not take any military actions on each other …show more content…
Regarding Hitler, his main ambition for this non aggression pact is to
be able to invade poland as he wished without having to be concerned with The soviet union
reacting on the eastern borders. In bold, the Non Aggression pact was based on the idea that both
countries would not attack each other whether independently or in any alliance with any other
country. It also prevents any of the two countries to support any country threatening one of the two
states. Finally it encourages the two countries to stay close regarding any common interests. This
of course was only the main takeaway from the pact, as the pact had several detailed articles that
had to be followed by Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union. An important statement that was
issued in one of the articles was the solving of any disputes between the states in a friendly
manner. This was not Hitler’s intentions at all as he does not deal with disagreements peacefully.
In addition to the full Pact which contained all of the articles to be followed, there also was a Secret
Protocol. The protocol included the case of territorial agreements regarding the Baltic States …show more content…
The soviets later also invaded Bessarabia
which belonged to Romania at that time.
In the years following the signing Non Aggression pact , many events showed that both countries
had some surprising similiarites. Both germany and the soviet union occupied zones in the area of
eastern europe. As we know, Hitler disliked immensely the jewish people and wanted to eliminated
them. This led the jews to move further east towards the Soviet Union. The only problem is that
since the two countries were allied, the jews were also mistreated by the Soviets, so they had no
option but to go back and get persecuted. The country that had to face major actions from the
persecution of the jewish people was Poland as thousands of polish jews were persecuted from
both sides. Now that they came for them, the jews only had two options, to stay or to leave
europe . Economically, Germans and soviets both cooperated very closely as one of the articles
stated in the pact. The soviets benefitted from germanys advanced tools and technology to
complete any sort of products they produced domestically. On the other hand, Germany