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May 9, 2024 · Warsaw Pact was a treaty that established a mutual-defense organization. It was composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Later Albania withdrew from the pact in 1968 and East Germany withdrew in 1990.
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Hungarian Revolution, popular uprising in Hungary in 1956,...
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Korean Air Lines flight 007, flight of a passenger jet that...
- Hungarian Revolution
May 9, 2024 · Thirty Years’ War, (1618–48), in European history, a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. Its destructive campaigns and battles occurred over most of Europe, and, when it ended with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the map of Europe had been ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- When did the Thirty Years' War begin?Though the struggles of the Thirty Years War erupted some years earlier, the war is conventionally held to have begun in 1618, when the future Holy...
- What was the Thirty Years’ War?The Thirty Years’ War was a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercia...
- Who was the Holy Roman Emperor during the first half of the Thirty Years' War?Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor (1619–37) and the king of Bohemia, was the leading champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation and abso...
- What treaty ended the Thirty Years' War?The Thirty Years' War ended with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which changed the map of Europe irrevocably. The peace was negotiated, from 1644...
- What led to the end of Denmark as a European power?Near the beginning of the Thirty Years' War in 1625, King Christian IV of Denmark saw an opportunity to gain valuable territory in Germany to balan...
3 days ago · Polish–Lithuanian War. The Polish–Lithuanian War (in Polish historiography, Polish–Lithuanian Conflict [6] [7]) was an undeclared war between newly independent Lithuania and Poland following World War I, which happened mainly in the Vilnius and Suwałki regions. The war is viewed differently by the respective sides.
- Lithuanian historiography:, May 1919 – November 29, 1920, (1 year, 6 months and 4 weeks);, Polish historiography:, September 1 – October 7, 1920, (1 month and 6 days)
3 days ago · In September 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Eastern part of Poland was annexed by the Soviet Union, Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were attached to the Ukrainian SSR .
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Apr 30, 2024 · Document collections in print. A very selected list of document collections in English housed in Olin Library. Landmark speeches of National Socialism. Nazi Germany sourcebook: an anthology of texts. Germany, 1919-1945. Archives of the Holocaust : an international collection of selected documents. Statistics of the Third Reich analysed, 1933-1944.
- Michael Schaefer
- 2009
May 7, 2024 · Oświęcim, city, Małopolskie województwo (province), southern Poland. It lies at the confluence of the Vistula and Soła rivers. A rail junction and industrial centre, the town became associated with the nearby sites of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex known as Auschwitz, the first.
20 hours ago · The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War or Operation 25, was a German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II. The order for the invasion was put forward in " Führer Directive No. 25", which Adolf Hitler issued on 27 March 1941, following a Yugoslav coup d'état ...
