Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

  • Ukraine formally proclaimed Soviet rule

    The National Assembly of Western Ukraine proclaimed Soviet rule and petitioned the USSR to incorporate the territory into Soviet Ukraine.
  • Nonaggression Pact signed in Moscow

    this pact was an anti agression agreement between the soviets and the nazis. the people who signed it were. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Viacheslav Molotov) and Nazi Germany (Joachim von Ribbentrop)
  • Britain and France declared war

  • The USSR invaded Poland from the east

  • adjustment was made to the pact

    this adjustment transferred Lithuania to the Soviets and redrew the border along the Sian Buh Narva rivers, to remove some ethnically Polish territory from the Soviet part.
  • The request was granted for Western Ukraine to be merged into southern Ukraine

  • U.S.S.R. occupied Baltic states

    The Baltic states (like western Ukraine) were forced to sign assistance pacts the USSR on july 15th, which expanded its influence in their affairs, and occupied the territory soon after