Roger Moorhouse is an acclaimed historian who incorporated his knowledge into his very well-written book to explore the nonaggression pact between Russia and Germany. The nonaggression pact that was between Russia and Germany declared, by agreement, that both countries would not take any military action against each other for the next ten years. The pact also had a secret addendum to divide up Eastern Europe into “spheres of influence” for each to conquer. This utterly shocked the world in the worst way possible. It was absurd two see that two very different and opposing forces would sign such a treaty, but it “effectively” allowed Hitler to embark on his plans of expansion for Germany. Moorhouse’s researched accounts of conversations after hear-say of the signing would lead one to believe that Doomsday was in total effect. Hugh Dundas recounts St. Aubyn’s reaction as anything but “gentlemanly” in which he says, “‘Well that’s [screwed]. That’s the start of the [freaking] war.’”…show more content… Hitler used the nonaggression pact to be able to invade Poland without Russia being a strong opposing force. That made Britain spring into action by ensuring that whatever hostilities may occur by a European power that Poland would lend all support and assistance that it could, and vice versa. Moorhouse explained that the Britain and Poland ally agreement had been under discussion for a long time, but due to the events in Moscow it had given the situation more of an urgency to be confirmed, thus resulting in a short document that was eight articles long and around five hundred words. Either way, the British were frantic about ulterior motives from both Russia and Germany. Many strategic moves could have been made to expand Communistic activities throughout the world and even dismantle Finland and the Baltic states to render them
