<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (July 2014) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (July 2014) </Td> </Tr> <P> In March 1939, Britain and France guaranteed the independence of Poland . Hitler's claims in the summer of 1939 on Danzig and the Polish provoked yet another international crisis . On August 25, Britain signed the Polish - British Common Defence Pact . </P> <P> Nominally, the Molotov--Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggression treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union . It was signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939, by the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop . </P>

The cause and effect of world war 2