Database: Nazi-Soviet Pact

Moscow//Soviet Union//1939-08-23

Despite the coming of the war, and the apparent ideological distance between them, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact on August 23, 1939.

Also known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the agreement contained a secret protocol dividing several nations into "spheres of influence" controlled by the Soviets and the Germans. The treaty was named after the respective foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop of Germany and Vyacheslav Molotov of the Soviet Union.