Stalin's foreign policy timeline

1929

• Russia and Germany were collaborating militarily (until 1932)

1931

• The Japanese invasion of Manchuria posed a significant threat to Russia

1932

• Stalin became interested in collective security, working with Western democracies to prevent the spread of fascism
• Stalin agreed non-aggression pacts with Poland and France

1933

• Russia established diplomatic relations with America
• Hitler became the German Chancellor and Germany withdrew from the League of Nations

1934

• Russia joined the League of Nations
• Stalin announced a policy of cooperating with the democratic socialists in the fight against fascism
• Russia's non-aggression pact with Poland became a 10-year agreement

1935

• Russia and Germany negotiated improving economic and political relations (until 1937)
• Russia signed the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance and the Mutual Assistance Pact with Czechoslovakia

1936

• Stalin's faith in the Franco-Soviet Pact was …