Joachim von Ribbentrop

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2 related events

1. 1
   1936 – 1937Formation of the Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pactdiplomat

   Germany and Italy formed the Rome–Berlin Axis, and Germany and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact against communism. Italy joined the following year, binding the three powers together.

2. 2
   1939Nazi–Soviet Non-Aggression Pactdiplomat

   Ideological enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union promised not to attack each other and divided Eastern Europe in a secret protocol. Nine days later Germany invaded Poland.

People who appear alongside

• Adolf Hitler1889 – 1945

  Nazi leader and Führer of Germany (1934–1945) who started the Second World War and perpetrated the Holocaust; he killed himself as Berlin fell

• Benito Mussolini1883 – 1945

  Founder of Italian Fascism who became prime minister (1922–1943) after the March on Rome; dictator who invaded Ethiopia and allied with Hitler

• Vyacheslav Molotov1890 – 1986

  Stalin’s close associate, Soviet premier (1930–1941) and foreign commissar, who signed the Nazi–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939

• Joseph Stalin1878 – 1953

  General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party who ruled the USSR from the late 1920s until his death, led the war against Germany and drew Eastern Europe into the Soviet bloc

Themes this person appears in

• The Great Depression and Totalitarianism1919 – 1939

  From the Washington Conference to the invasion of Poland — two decades in which the age of international cooperation collapsed in the Depression, fascism, Nazism and Stalinism rose, and the world slid into war again