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Interwar-period treaties
- Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual AssistanceThe Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance was signed in Paris on the 2nd of May 1935, at a moment when Nazi Germany's threat was growing louder by the…
- Tanggu TruceThe Tanggu Truce was signed on the 31st of May 1933, in the port city of Tanggu in Tianjin, between the military forces of the Republic of China and the…
- Franco-Polish allianceThe Franco-Polish Alliance was born in Paris in February 1921, signed by a Polish count and a French foreign minister against the backdrop of a war that had…
- Stresa FrontGermany declared its intention to build an air force in March 1935. This declaration marked a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
- Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression PactNanjing hosted the signing of the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact on the 21st of August 1937. This document emerged between the Republic of China and the…
- Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935Italy entered World War I expecting to gain territory from the defeated German colonial empire. The Treaty of Versailles denied Italy these lands, dividing…
- Washington Naval TreatyOn the 6th of February 1922, five of the world's most powerful nations put their signatures to a document that would reshape naval warfare for two decades.
- Anglo-German Naval AgreementPart V of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles imposed severe limitations on Germany's naval forces. The treaty allowed no submarines, no naval aviation, and only…
- Locarno TreatiesThe Locarno Treaties were born from a contradiction. Germany, still raw from the humiliations of the Treaty of Versailles, sat down in October 1925 with the…
- German–Polish declaration of non-aggressionThe Locarno Treaties of 1925 reshaped European security in ways that left Poland exposed. France agreed never to send forces into Germany outside its own…