the soviet union was the country that with england declared war on germany after the german invasion of poland.
the soviet union was the country that with england declared war on germany after the german invasion of poland.
country that with england declared war on germany after the german invasion of poland?
the soviet union
in 1939, britain and france offered military support to poland in the likely case of a german invasion. in the dawn of 1 september 1939, the german invasion of poland began. france and the united kingdom declared war on 3 september, after an ultimatum for german forces to immediately withdraw their forces from poland was not answered. following this, australia (3 september), new zealand (3 september), south africa (6 september) and canada (10 september) declared war on germany. while british and french commitments to poland were met politically, the allies were not in a position to render meaningful military assistance to the poles in a timely manner. even if allied military intervention in poland had been feasible, it would have come at the risk of drawing the soviet union into the war on germany's side due to the recently-signed german-soviet non-aggression pact and subsequent soviet invasion of eastern poland. as a result, the allies settled on a long-war strategy and mobilised for defensive land operations against germany, while a trade blockade was imposed and the pre-war re-armament was accelerated, ready for an eventual invasion of germany.
battle of france
germany justified its war against poland on the issues of german minority within poland and polish opposition to the incorporation of the ethnically german-majority free city of danzig into germany. while hitler and the nazi party before taking power openly talked about destroying poland and were hostile to poles, after gaining power until february 1939 hitler tried to conceal his true intentions towards poland, and signed a 10-year non-aggression pact in 1934, revealing his plans to only to his closest associates. relations between germany and poland altered from the early to the late 1930s, as germany sought rapprochement with poland to avoid the risk of poland entering the soviet sphere of influence, and appealed to anti-soviet sentiment in poland. the soviet union in turn at this time competed with germany for influence in poland. at the same time germany was preparing for a war with poland and was secretly preparing the german minority in poland for a war. and since 1935 weapons were being smuggled and gathered in frontier polish regions by german intelligence. in november 1938, germany organized german paramilitary units in the polish region of pomerania that were trained to engage in diversion, sabotage as well as murder and ethnic cleansing upon a german invasion of poland. at the end of 1938 one of the first editions of sonderfahndungsbuch polen was printed by the nazis, containing several thousand names of poles targeted for execution and imprisonment after an invasion of poland from late 1938 to early 1939, germany in talks with poland suggested that as reward for poland transferring territories in pomerania to germany that poland could annex ukrainian territories from the soviet union after a war with soviet union. in january 1939, ribbentrop held negotiations with józef beck, the polish minister of foreign affairs; and edward rydz-śmigły, the commander-in-chief of the polish army; in which ribbentrop urged them to have poland enter the anti-comintern pact and work together with germany for a mutual war in the east, whereby poland would take slovakia and ukraine. ribbentrop in private discussion with german officials stated that he hoped that by offering poland large new territories in the soviet union, that germany would gain not only from polish cooperation in a war with the soviet union, but also that poland would cooperate by transferring the polish corridor to germany in exchange for these gains, because though it would lose access to the baltic sea, it would gain access to the black sea via ukraine. however beck refused to discuss german demands for the corridor and was recalcitrant to the idea of a war with the soviet union. the polish government distrusted hitler and saw the plan as a threat to polish sovereignty, practically subordinating poland to the axis and the anti-comintern bloc while reducing the country to a state of near-servitude as its entire trade with western europe through the baltic sea would become dependent on germany.
axis powers