Influence of foreign powers Flashcards
Molotov
Foreign minister for USSR
Replaced Litinov (Jewish)
Molotov declares interest in western alliance
May 1939
Stalin
Hoped for closer relationship w/ democracies
Allowed Nazi-Soviet pact to go ahead - Britain and France not serious
Admiral Drax
British delegate w/ aristocratic background
Sent on an old merchant ship - British didn’t look serious
Ribbentrop
Catalysed negotiations
Germany and Russia 1920s
Fought each other in WWI
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Rapallo Treaty
Rapallo Treaty
1922
Led to reconciliation - German rearmament on Soviet soil
Signals for Germany wanting increased relations
Stalin replacing Jewish Litinov w/ Molotov
Berlin thinks Stalin not convinced by western democracies
Updated Rapallo Treaty
Would included a ‘German Poland’ and ‘Russian Poland’
Later pushed by the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
USSR overall contribution
Bolstered Hitler confidence in Poland
Speeds up invasion - mutual interest
Soviets don’t want alliances w/ Western powers - Enables Hitler for alliances
Clemenceau
involved in negotiating ToV
Impact on France WWI
Cost them 1.5 million men
Caused drop in birth rate
Little Entente
1924-27
Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia
Gov Transition in France
Right to left wing
1930s
Marechal Petain
Creation of Vichy State in alliance w/ Hitler
Led political revolution