1942 ⟶ Eden Proposes a Twenty-Year Alliance with the Soviets
At the high-level Soviet/United Kingdom talks in London, Ant...
Year
1939
1942
🇷🇺 Soviet Union Proposes Alliance Rejected
The Soviet Union proposes a tripartite alliance with the United Kingdom and France. It is rejected.⟶
Soviet UnionUKFranceAllianceDiplomacyPre-War AlliancesEurope1939
📜 Eden Proposes a Twenty-Year Alliance with the Soviets
At the high-level Soviet/United Kingdom talks in London, Anthony Eden suggests abandoning attempts to reach territorial understandings, and instead conclude a twenty-years' alliance. Molotov, whose diplomatic position is weakening rapidly as the Soviet military situation deteriorates at Kerch and Kharkov, expresses interest.⟶
Anglo-Soviet RelationsAllianceDiplomacySoviet UnionUKEdenMolotov
🗣️ Molotov's Territorial Demands Stall UK Talks
In discussions with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden, Molotov continues to press Soviet demands for territorial acquisitions made during the run-up to war, including the Baltic states, Eastern Poland, and Bessarabia. Churchill cannot or will not agree to these demands, and the talks become deadlocked.⟶
MolotovTerritorial DisputesDiplomacyAllied RelationsEastern EuropeChurchillEden
🤝 Anglo-Soviet Treaty Signed
The Anglo-Soviet Treaty: their foreign secretaries agree that no peace will be signed by one without the approval of the other. (An important treaty since Himmler and others will attempt to separate the two nations at the end of the war.)⟶
Anglo-Soviet TreatyAllianceDiplomacyUKSoviet UnionPost-War PlanningHimmler