Just before the start of the Second World War, the Germans and the Soviets signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, ensuring non-aggression between the two powers and enabling both to pursue military goals without each other’s interference. On 22 June 1941, Hitler broke the pact by invading the Soviet Union.
Both the events surrounding the treaty and its violation would influence several countries’ decisions about entering the war, just as the war’s developments in later years would influence those countries’ decisions to switch their allegiance to the Allies.
Here we examine 4 countries who fought on the side of the Axis Powers and then later for the Allies.
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