Soviet-Nazi Peace
In the 1930's, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler signed a peace treaty known as a nonaggression pact. This treaty promised that Germany and the Soviet Union would remain on the same side of the war effort if it occurred. However, this peace treaty between Russia and Germany was secretly a wartime alliance between the two. Russia and Germany both agreed that both countries should receive land taken from Europe. Hitler and Stalin both planned to carve up Poland for more land, and on September 1st, 1939, Germany launched a surprise attack on Poland.