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In The Devils Alliance, acclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse explores the causes and implications of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, an unholy covenant whose creation and dissolution were crucial turning points in World War II. Forged by the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, the nonaggression treaty briefly united the two powers in a brutally efficient collaboration. Together, the Germans and Soviets quickly conquered and divided central and eastern EuropePoland, the Baltic States, Finland, and Bessarabiaand the human cost was staggering: during the two years of the pact hundreds of thousands of people in central and eastern Europe caught between Hitler and Stalin were expropriated, deported, or killed. Fortunately for the Allies, the partnership ultimately soured, resulting in the surprise June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. Ironically, however, the powers exchange of materiel, blueprints, and technological expertise during the period of the Pact made possible a far more bloody and protracted war than would have otherwise been conceivable.
Combining comprehensive research with a gripping narrative, The Devils Alliance is the authoritative history of the Nazi-Soviet Pactand a portrait of the people whose lives were irrevocably altered by Hitler and Stalins nefarious collaboration.
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Copyright 2014 by Roger Moorhouse
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ISBN: 978-0-465-05492-3
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To my mother and the fond memory of my father
TABLE OF CONTENTS
It is always a challenge to make sense of the shifting sands of eastern Europes place names. For this book, in which frontiers move and rival languages intrude, I have employed a policy of using names appropriate to the period under scrutiny.
So, to take the example of what is today the Ukrainian city of Lviv: In discussing September 1939, when it was the Polish city of Lww, I use the Polish name. However, after the city passed to Soviet control and its name was Russified to 
, I use the transliterated form, Lvov. Incidentally, the modern Ukrainian version, Lviv, only came into official use with the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.
Where there exists an accepted Anglicized formsuch as Warsaw, Brest, or Moscowthen I have naturally used it throughout.
1939
March
10 Stalin delivers speech to the 18th Communist Party Congress.
15 German forces occupy Bohemia and Moravia.
31 Britain extends a guarantee to both Poland and Romania.
May
3 Stalin replaces Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov with Vyacheslav Molotov.
August
12 Anglo-French-Soviet talks begin in Moscow.
19 German-Soviet Credit Agreement is signed in Berlin.
21 Soviet talks with the British and French are suspended.
23 German-Soviet Treaty of Non-aggression, or Nazi-Soviet Pact, is signed in Moscow.
25 Anglo-Polish Military Alliance is signed in London.
31 Soviet forces defeat the Japanese at Khalkhin Gol.
September
1 German forces invade Poland.
3 Britain and France declare war on Germany.
15 Soviet forces agree to a cease-fire with the Japanese in Manchuria.
17 Soviet forces invade Poland.
22 German and Soviet forces stage a joint parade at Brest-Litovsk.
28 German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty is signed in Moscow.
Soviet-Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty is signed in Moscow.
October
5 Soviet-Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty is signed.
6 Last pockets of Polish resistance are defeated.
10 Soviet Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty is signed.
November
26 Mainila Incident provides Moscow with a casus belli against Finland.
30 Soviet forces invade Finland.
1940
February
10 First Soviet mass deportation from Poland begins.
11 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement is signed.
March
12 Treaty of Moscow is signed between Finland and the Soviet Union, bringing the Winter War to an end.
April
3 Katyn massacres begin.
9 German forces invade Norway and Denmark.
13 Second Soviet mass deportation from Poland begins.
May
10 German forces invade France and the Low Countries.
31 Heavy cruiser Ltzow arrives in Leningrad.
June
15 Soviet forces invade Lithuania.
16 Soviet forces invade Estonia and Latvia.
22 Armistice is signed between Germany and France.
28 Romania heeds a Soviet ultimatum and withdraws from the provinces of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina.
30 Third Soviet mass deportation from Poland begins.
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina is complete.
July
14/15 Rigged elections are held in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
August
2 Moldavia (Bessarabia) becomes a republic of the Soviet Union.
3 Lithuania becomes a republic of the Soviet Union.
5 Latvia becomes a republic of the Soviet Union.
6 Estonia becomes a republic of the Soviet Union.
September
27 Tripartite Pact is signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan, establishing the Axis powers.
November
12 Molotov arrives in Berlin for talks with Hitler.
20 Hungary joins the Axis.
23 Romania joins the Axis.
December
1 German-Soviet Tariff and Toll Treaty is signed.
17 Danubian Commission conference breaks up in acrimony.
18 Hitler gives the order for Operation Barbarossa, the attack on the Soviet Union.
23 Red Army High Command Conference opens in Moscow.
1941
January
10 German-Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement is signed in Moscow.
March
1 Bulgaria joins the Axis.
25 Yugoslavia joins the Axis.
27 Coup dtat is staged in Yugoslavia.
April
6 Soviet-Yugoslav Treaty of Friendship and Non-aggression is signed.
German forces invade Yugoslavia.
13 Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact is signed in Moscow.
May
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