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1939 in international relations

  • Cash and carry (World War II)The first Neutrality Act passed in August 1935. It forbade selling implements of war to belligerent countries under any terms.
  • Operation HimmlerHeinrich Himmler conceived a strategy to manufacture evidence of Polish aggression before the German invasion. Reinhard Heydrich supervised the project while…
  • Gleiwitz incidentOn the night of the 31st of August 1939, a small group of German operatives dressed in Polish uniforms seized the radio station Sender Gleiwitz.
  • Molotov–Ribbentrop PactThe outcome of World War I was disastrous for both the German and Russian empires. The Russian Civil War broke out in late 1917 after the Bolshevik…
  • 1939 German ultimatum to LithuaniaOn the 20th of March 1939, Nazi Germany's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop presented an oral ultimatum to Juozas Urbšys, the foreign minister of…