1939

• Stresemann died – trigger poor Soviet-German relations


  October
• Society


  19 million peasants migrate to the city (urbanisation) – collectivisation
• German invasion of Czechoslovakia


  March 1939
• USSR defeat Japan at Khalkin Gol in Soviet Mongolia

  Nazi-Soviet Pact 


  August 1939
• Germany invade Poland


  September 1939
• USSR invade Finland


  November 1939