Diplomacy
Diplomacy
The network of relations between states on a chosen day: alliances, pacts, guarantees, states of war, armistices, recognition of governments. Each relation has a status: formal (a legal act), de facto (a state of affairs without a formal act) or disputed (not recognised by some states).
Relations in force 1 January 1936: 18 relations
- alliance
- non-aggression pact
- guarantee
- de facto
- disputed
- Anglo-Portuguese AllianceallianceformalPortugal↔United Kingdom9 May 1386 – ongoing
Invoked in 1943 to grant the Allies bases in the Azores; Portugal otherwise neutral.
Anglo-Portuguese Alliance · Wikipedia (EN) - Little Entente (Czechoslovakia–Yugoslavia)allianceformalCzechoslovakia↔Yugoslavia14 Aug 1920 – 31 Dec 1938
Defence treaty signed in Belgrade on 14 August 1920. The Little Entente was dissolved in 1938; the source gives no exact day, so the end date is for display only.
Little Entente · Wikipedia (EN) - Franco-Polish allianceallianceformalFrance↔Poland19 Feb 1921 – 22 Jun 1940
Military convention of 1921; protocol of 4 September 1939. Lapsed with the French armistice.
Franco-Polish alliance (1921) · Wikipedia (EN) - Polish–Romanian allianceallianceformalPoland↔Romania3 Mar 1921 – 17 Sept 1939
Defensive alliance directed against the USSR; not invoked in 1939 — Romania stayed neutral and interned Polish troops.
Polish–Romanian alliance · Wikipedia (EN) - Little Entente (Czechoslovakia–Romania)allianceformalCzechoslovakia↔Romania23 Apr 1921 – 31 Dec 1938
Treaty signed in Bucharest on 23 April 1921. The Little Entente was dissolved in 1938; end date for display only.
Little Entente · Wikipedia (EN) - Little Entente (Romania–Yugoslavia)allianceformalRomania↔Yugoslavia7 Jun 1921 – 31 Dec 1938
Treaty signed in Belgrade on 7 June 1921. The Little Entente was dissolved in 1938; end date for display only.
Little Entente · Wikipedia (EN) - Franco-Czechoslovak allianceallianceformalFrance↔Czechoslovakia25 Jan 1924 – 15 Mar 1939
Treaty of Alliance and Friendship signed in Paris on 25 January 1924, of unlimited duration. The end date is the German occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia (15 March 1939) and is for display only.
Little Entente · Wikipedia (EN) - Locarno Treaties (Franco-German border)guaranteeformalGermany↔France14 Sept 1926 – 7 Mar 1936
Signed in London on 1 December 1925; in force from 14 September 1926. Germany, France, the UK, Belgium and Italy guaranteed the Franco-German and Belgian-German borders and the demilitarised Rhineland. On 7 March 1936 Germany repudiated the treaties by sending troops into the Rhineland.
Locarno Treaties · Wikipedia (EN) - Locarno Treaties (Belgian-German border)guaranteeformalGermany↔Belgium14 Sept 1926 – 7 Mar 1936
Part of the Locarno Treaties: guarantee of the Belgian-German border and the demilitarised Rhineland; repudiated by Germany on 7 March 1936.
Locarno Treaties · Wikipedia (EN) - Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pactnon-aggression pactformalPoland↔Soviet Union25 Jul 1932 – 17 Sept 1939
Signed 25 July 1932; extended on 5 May 1934 to 31 December 1945. In practice ended by the Soviet invasion of 17 September 1939.
Timeline of events preceding World War II · Wikipedia (EN) - German–Polish non-aggression declarationnon-aggression pactformalGermany↔Poland26 Jan 1934 – 29 Apr 1939
Ten-year declaration signed on 26 January 1934; renounced by Hitler on 29 April 1939 (dated as in the source).
Timeline of events preceding World War II · Wikipedia (EN) - Balkan Pact (Greece–Turkey)allianceformalGreece↔Turkey9 Feb 1934 – 6 Apr 1941
Military alliance signed in Athens on 9 February 1934 by Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia. It effectively ceased to exist after the Treaty of Craiova (1940) and the Axis invasions; the end date (6 April 1941) is approximate.
Balkan Pact · Wikipedia (EN) - Balkan Pact (Greece–Romania)allianceformalGreece↔Romania9 Feb 1934 – 6 Apr 1941
Part of the Balkan Pact of 9 February 1934; effectively ceased after the Treaty of Craiova (1940) and the Axis invasions (end date approximate).
Balkan Pact · Wikipedia (EN) - Balkan Pact (Greece–Yugoslavia)allianceformalGreece↔Yugoslavia9 Feb 1934 – 6 Apr 1941
Part of the Balkan Pact of 9 February 1934; effectively ceased after the Treaty of Craiova (1940) and the Axis invasions (end date approximate).
Balkan Pact · Wikipedia (EN) - Balkan Pact (Romania–Turkey)allianceformalRomania↔Turkey9 Feb 1934 – 6 Apr 1941
Part of the Balkan Pact of 9 February 1934; effectively ceased after the Treaty of Craiova (1940) and the Axis invasions (end date approximate).
Balkan Pact · Wikipedia (EN) - Balkan Pact (Turkey–Yugoslavia)allianceformalTurkey↔Yugoslavia9 Feb 1934 – 6 Apr 1941
Part of the Balkan Pact of 9 February 1934; effectively ceased after the Treaty of Craiova (1940) and the Axis invasions (end date approximate).
Balkan Pact · Wikipedia (EN) - Balkan Pact (Romania–Yugoslavia)allianceformalRomania↔Yugoslavia9 Feb 1934 – 6 Apr 1941
Part of the Balkan Pact of 9 February 1934; effectively ceased after the Treaty of Craiova (1940) and the Axis invasions (end date approximate).
Balkan Pact · Wikipedia (EN) - Czechoslovak–Soviet Treaty of Alliance (1935)allianceformalSoviet Union↔Czechoslovakia16 May 1935 – 15 Mar 1939
Signed 16 May 1935. The end date is the German occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia (15 March 1939) and is for display only.
Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance · Wikipedia (EN)
Lines join capitals and show the existence of a relation, not its geography. Data covers only the European states in the atlas; the USA and other non-European states are not nodes of the network.