Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance

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The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance was a 1935 alliance between France and the Soviet Union aimed at containing Nazi Germany through a system of collective security in Europe.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf bilateral treaty
collective security agreement
military alliance
affectedBy German remilitarization of the Rhineland
aimedAtContaining Nazi Germany
alsoKnownAs Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance
surface form: Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance
context interwar period
prelude to World War II
countryInvolved France
Soviet Union
criticizedBy French right-wing parties
UK government
surface form: United Kingdom government
dateSigned 1935-05-02
enteredIntoForce 1936
foreignMinisterOfFranceAtSigning Pierre Laval
foreignMinisterOfSovietUnionAtSigning Maxim Litvinov NERFINISHED
goal collective security in Europe
historicalSignificance symbol of failed interwar collective security
influenced French alliance policy in the late 1930s
language French
Russian
legalNature defensive alliance
limitedBy requirement of prior League of Nations action
motivatedBy remilitarization of Germany
rise of Nazi Germany
opposedBy Fascist Italy
Nazi Germany
perceivedAs deterrent against German aggression
placeSigned Paris
policyContext French policy of encirclement of Germany
Soviet policy of collective security
precedes Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
ratifiedBy Parliament of France
surface form: French Parliament

Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
surface form: Supreme Soviet of the USSR
region Europe
relatedTo Franco-Czechoslovak alliance
surface form: Franco-Czechoslovak Treaty of Alliance

League of Nations
surface form: League of Nations collective security system
requires mutual assistance in case of unprovoked aggression by a third state
signatory French Third Republic
Soviet Union
surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
status defunct
subjectMatter mutual military assistance
political cooperation
timePeriod 20th century
weakenedBy Franco-British appeasement policy
Munich Agreement
yearSigned 1935

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Poland–Soviet Union non-aggression pact relatedTo Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance
Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance alsoKnownAs Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance
this entity surface form: Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance