Transcription: Over the next ten months, European nations scrambled to make and break alliances as war appeared imminent. The Soviets proposed an alliance with Britain and France, but negotiations fell through because of disagreements over Poland's fate. Hitler rescinded a 1934 non-aggression agreement with Poland. Italy and Germany signed the Pact of Steel, pledging to support each other in future wars. Germany and the Soviet Union forged a non-aggression pact. A secret clause provided for the division of hapless Poland between the two. Finally, just one week before the invasion of Poland, Britain and Polan ...
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