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This is relevant because it is a image of them signing the act.

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This is relevant because it is a image of them signing the act.

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Learn how the nonaggression pact between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union sealed Poland's fate before WWII Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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NARRATOR: Russian offers to help stem the tide of German aggression having been ignored, the Soviets lost patience with the Allies and decided to protect themselves for as long as possible. Accordingly, in August, 1939, they signed a cynical non-aggression pact with Germany. One of the provisos: that Russia would not interfere with a German invasion of Poland. Stalin's price for remaining neutral--Eastern Poland. Hitler was now free to act. And Poland's doom was sealed.

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Learn how the nonaggression pact between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union sealed Poland's fate before WWII

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Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, having negotiated the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of August 1939, is greeted by German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and other officials in Berlin. From "The Second World War: Prelude to Conflict" (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.

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It was signed in moscow

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During World War II, representatives from the Soviet Union and Japan sign a five-year neutrality agreement. Although traditional enemies, the nonaggression pact allowed both nations to free up large numbers of troops occupying disputed territory in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia to be used for more pressing purposes.

The Soviet-Japanese pact came nearly two years after the Soviet Union signed a similar agreement with Nazi Germany, dividing much of Eastern Europe between the two countries. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Nonaggression Pact allowed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to move German forces to the West for his major offensives of 1939 to 1941 and bought Soviet leader Joseph Stalin time to prepare the empire for what he saw as its inevitable involvement in World War II.

However, on June 22, 1941, just two months after the Soviet-Japanese nonaggression pact was signed, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR. Stalin was caught by surprise, and the German Wehrmacht penetrated deep into the Soviet Union, killing millions of Russians and reaching the outskirts of Moscow before the Red Army was able to begin a successful counteroffensive. Although Japanese offensives into the eastern USSR during this time might have resulted in the defeat of the Soviet Union, Japan was forced to concentrate all its resources in a resistance against the massive U.S. counteroffensive in the Pacific, underway by fall 1942.

During the Yalta conference in early 1945, Joseph Stalin, at the urging of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, agreed to declare war against Japan within three months of Germany's defeat. On August 8, 1945, true to Stalin's promise, the Soviet Union declared war against Japan, and the next day the Red Army invaded Manchuria. The same day, the United States dropped its second atomic bomb on Japan, devastating Nagasaki as it had Hiroshima three days earlier. Faced with the choice of destruction or surrender, Japan chose the latter. On August 15, one week after the Soviet declaration of war, Emperor Hirohito announced the Japanese surrender on national radio, urging the Japanese people to "endure the unendurable."

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During World War II, representatives from the Soviet Union and Japan sign a five-year neutrality agreement. Although traditional enemies, the nonaggression pact allowed both nations to free up large numbers of troops occupying disputed territory in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia to be used for more pressing purposes.

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It was signed by Minister Yosuke Matsouke, Yoshtisuga Tatekawa, and minister Vyacheslav molotov.

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It was signed by Minister Yosuke Matsouke, Yoshtisuga Tatekawa, and minister Vyacheslav molotov.

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Shortly after WWll broke out Germany and the soviet union signed the German-Soviet non- aggression act.

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Shortly after WWll broke out Germany and the soviet union signed the German-Soviet non- aggression act.