Timetable

A chronology of some of the more interesting events leading up to the break between Germany and Russia:

1940

Nov. 12--U.S.S.R.'s Premier Molotov arrives in Berlin, talks with Nazis in "an atmosphere of mutual confidence."

Nov. 23--Rumania joins the Axis.

1941

Jan. 1--Dictator Joseph Stalin, in New Year's message, says U.S.S.R. is totally mobilized.

Jan. 10--Germany and U.S.S.R. sign Pact of Friendship, extend trade agreements.

Feb. 25--U.S.S.R. defense budget is a third of total budget, 24% higher than 1940's record appropriation.

March 1--Bulgaria joins Axis and local Communists protest as Nazi troops enter Sofia heading for Greek border.

March 23--Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan's Foreign Minister, visits Moscow.

March 26--Foreign Minister Matsuoka arrives in Berlin for talks with Dictator Hitler.

April 6--Germany attacks Greece and Yugoslavia; Russia and Yugoslavia sign a friendship pact.

April 13--Foreign Minister Matsuoka, again in Moscow, signs neutrality pact with U.S.S.R.

April 30--U.S.S.R. reports German troops in Finland.

May 1--U.S.S.R.'s official slogan for May Day: "Preparedness."

May 6--Dictator Joseph Stalin succeeds Viacheslav Molotov as Premier of U.S.S.R.

May 10--Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuehrer of the Nazi Party, lands on a Scottish estate.

May 12--U.S.S.R. recognizes pro-Nazi Government of Iraq.

May 17--U.S.S.R. bars foreign diplomats from frontier zones.

June 3--U.S.S.R. withdraws recognition from Greece, due to her "loss of sovereignty."

June 6--Berlin says stories of big Russian-German mobilizations are "absolutely silly."

June 11--Sir Stafford Cripps returns to London, the intimation being that his efforts to get any sort of understanding with Stalin have been fruitless.

June 18--Finland mobilizes; Turkey and Germany sign Non-Aggression Pact.

June 22--Germany attacks Russia along a 2,000-mile front from Finland to Bessarabia.

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