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1932
January 21
•    Finland and the Soviet Union sign a five-year Pact of Non-Aggression.
July 25
•    Poland and the Soviet Union sign a five-year Non-Aggression Pact.
November 29
•    France and the Soviet Union sign a Pact of Non-Aggression

1934

January 26
•    Germany and Poland signed a ten year Declaration of Non-Aggression.  
•    The 1932 non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Poland is extended to the end of 1945.
(Month unknown)
•    The President of Turkey, Kemal Atatürk, who was visiting tells American General Douglas MacArthur that a war would start in Europe around 1940.  Soviets would emerge after the war as the main beneficiary and Germany would dominate the whole continent except for two, Britain and Russia.
August 2
•    After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumes the office of Reich President as well. The Wehrmacht oath of allegiance is changed to be directly to Adolf Hitler.
November 1
•    Winston Churchill speaks to his constituency: "Germany is arming, secretly, illegally, and rapidly.”
December
•    German scientists successfully test-launch the first two A-2 rockets over the North Sea from Borkum island.

 1935

February 26
•    In England, British scientists make the first test of radio wave detection of air planes by short-wave transmitter tower and mobile radio receivers.
May 16
•    Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union sign a five-year Treaty of Mutual Assistance.
May 25
•    German Chancellor Adolf Hitler agrees to not intervene in Austria or add Austria to the German Reich.