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In the late 1920s and early 1930s, a complicated set of alliances was established amongst the nations of Europe, in the hope of preventing future wars ( either with Germany or the Soviet Union ).

With the rise of Nazism in Germany, this system of alliances was strengthened by the signing of a series of " mutual assistance " alliances between France, Britain, and Poland ( Franco-Polish Alliance and Anglo-Polish Alliance ).

This agreement stated that in the event of war the other allies were to fully mobilize and carry out a " ground intervention within two weeks " in support of the ally being attacked Additionally representatives of the Western powers made several military promises to Poland, including such fantastic designs as those made by British General William Edmund Ironside in his July talks with Marshall Rydz-Śmigły who promised an attack from the direction of Black Sea, or placing a British aircraft carrier in the Baltic