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Germany
:
1929-32
German expertise helped
industrialisation
Germany was
USSRs
biggest
export
market
USSR benefitted from German
military training
Germany benefitted from access to areas in the
USSR
that they could carry out
military
developments banned in the treaty of Versailles
League of
Nations
:
September 1934
Benefits to
west
-
strength collective security
against Germany or Japan
Benefits to USSR - potential for international cooperation against
anti-communist Hitler
- could influence
France
and Britain
Pacts with France and Czechoslovakia:
November 1932
-
non-aggression
pact with France
December 1932 -
non-aggression
pact with
Poland
May 1935
-
mutual assistance
pact with France and Czechoslovakia
Spanish civil war:
September 1936
Military equipment
and
soviet advisors
to Republic
Stalin hoped to prolong the civil war in 1937 to
weaken German
and
Italian
forces on nationalist side
Soviet intervention increased
fear
and
dislike
of soviet communism in the west
Nazi-
soviet
pact:
23rd August 1939
respect
each others territories, increase
trade
and settle disputes peacefully
secret part of pact divided
Eastern
Europe into a
German
and soviet sphere of influence
USSR
continued
anti-Nazi
propaganda
Pact could be seen as a delaying tactic as
red army
not ready for war in
1939
Outcome of
Nazi-Soviet
pact:
Hitler
could send his armies westwards without fear of Russian reprisals - defeated France in may
1940
USSR seized control of
Baltic
states in
1940
Stalin
thought
Hitler
could not invade until May 1942 but by October 1940 plans had already begun for the invasion