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The Nazi–Soviet Pact

How and why did Germany and the USSR make this unlikely alliance?

Meeting of Stalin and Hitler in 1939. Cartoon by David Low.
Peter Newark

Nazi–Soviet Pact: also known as the Non-Aggression Pact or the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

intentionalist–structuralist argument: there are two schools of thought regarding the Nazi regime. Intentionalists hold that Hitler’s foreign policy was always intended, that he had a clear set of goals. Structuralists argue that Hitler was more of an opportunist, seizing advantage of situations as they arose.

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