How Did Joseph Stalin Continue To Search For Nazi Aggression

Nazi aggression was the act in which two countries agreed to take no military actions against each other for the next 10 years. In 1939, on August 23, shortly before World War II (1939-1945) occurred, enemies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union stunned the world by agreeing to sign the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. From this point, until the next 10 years, these 2 countries could have no military actions taken upon each other. The Soviet Union had been unable to reach a collective-security agreement with Britain and France against Nazi-Germany for quite some time, so by early 1939 they started to search for a change of policy. The Soviets had faced the prospect of resisting German military expansion in eastern Europe alone, and this is another reason why they began to search for a new change in policy. On May 3, 1939 Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin fired Maksim Litvinov, a foreign
After making this agreement, he had hopes to keep the Soviet Union at peace with Germany and he wanted to gain time to build up the establishment of the Soviet military, which was badly weakened by the purge of the Red Army in 1937. Stalins preference for the Nazi’s, along with the Western Democracies hesitance in opposing Adolf Hitler, played a part in Stalin’s final choice. Hitler wanted his armies to invade Poland virtually unopposed by a major power, so he set up a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union. The German-Soviet negotiations end result was the Nonaggression Pact, dated and signed by Ribbentrop and Molotov in the presence of Stalin on August 23 in Moscow. After Ribbentrop and Molotov signed the agreement, these two countries could not attack each other. If ever there was a problem between these two countries, it was to be handled without serious disagreement. This agreement was supposed to be in effect for 10 years, but it only lasted for less than two