Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te piki haere o ngā taumahatanga i waenganui i Tiamana me Poland mō te heke mai o Danzig, ka tahuri ngā Tiamana ki ngā Soviets, ka haina i te Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, nāna i whakaaetia ngā Soviets ki te whakaeke i ngā whenua Baltic me ētahi wāhanga o Poland me Romania. I whakaekehia a Tiamana ki Polani i te 1 o Mahuru 1939, i akiaki a France me te United Kingdom ki te kii pakanga ki a Tiamana i te 3 o Mahuru, ka whakatuwhera i te Whare Taonga o Europi o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao. I tiimata te whakaekenga a te Soviet o Poland i te 17 o Hepetema ka hinga a Poland i muri tata mai. I te 24 o Hepetema, ka whakaekea e te Soviet Union nga whenua o Baltic, a muri ake, ko Finland. I tūmanako ngā Ingarihi kia tae ki Narvik
Ka tukuna atu e rātau he hōia ki te āwhina i a Finland, engari ko tā rātau whāinga matua i te taenga mai, ko te karapoti i a Tiamana, me te whakakore i ngā rauemi a ngā Tiamana i ngā rauemi Scandinavian. I taua wā anō, ka whakauruhia e Tiamana ngā hōia ki Denmark. I haere tonu te Pakanga Peke.