# Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact (1935)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1935-franco-soviet-mutual-assistance-pact
Location: Paris

France sought greater security against Nazi Germany through an agreement with the Soviet Union. Within the broader Third Republic period, The Third Republic survived war, the Commune, constitutional crises and fierce ideological conflict. It expanded mass schooling and empire, faced the Dreyfus Affair, fought World War I and entered the troubled interwar era. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Albert Lebrun (President of the French Republic). Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact mattered because it reshaped France’s external relationships, territory or place in wider international systems.

Ruler at the time: [Albert Lebrun](https://history-france.com/rulers/albert-lebrun)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Franco-Soviet+Mutual+Assistance+Pact&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Franco-Soviet+Mutual+Assistance+Pact)
- [Vie-publique — French institutions and history](https://www.vie-publique.fr/)