Czechoslovakia

The Big Three is a name that was given to the three major countries that attended the Yalta conference in 1945: the U.S, Russia, and Great Britain. These countries were represented by their leaders the U.S was represented by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Russia was represented by Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill represented Great Britain. Peace was restored and World War Two was brought to a successful end though the negotiations, disagreements, and compromises of these three men. Franklin Delano…

Hitler and Nazi Germany later invaded. One of the key events that marked the beginning of the Holocaust was Kristallnacht. On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazi supporters vandalized and destroyed synagogues, businesses, and homes owned by Jews in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Germany. Because of the broken glass all over the streets, the event was called the Night of Broken Glass, or in German: Kristallnacht. After Kristallnacht, many Jews decided to flee Germany in hopes of escaping persecution. In…

Jewish people. Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles many times. In 1936 he sent German troops to march into Rhineland, two years later he ordered them into Austria and wanted to annex it to German Reich, and in 1938 he threatened to invade Czechoslovakia. World War II began on September 1, 1939 after Hitler attacked Poland. During WWII Hitler, was arresting not only Jews but communists, Slavs, homosexuals, and mentally or physically disabled people. This was the beginning of the holocaust.…

those countries communist. This worried the west (USA & UK) because Russia was slowly growing in population and power (Document #9). In document 10 it shows the spread of Russia in Europe after World War two. They gained Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and many more. The soviet union was growing and spreading communism rapidly. In February 1945 Stalin agrees at the Yalta conference to help the Americans and British defeat the Japanese 3 months after the E.T.O. is…

1. First of all I would like to say not one single event soley caused the war the train of corrupting events did. On June 28, 1914 the serbian Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz-Ferdinand cause of this Kaiser Wilhem and his fellow germans sided with Austria. Within weeks of the assassination there was a series of uncontrolable rampage amoung the military and other government leaders. Most diplomatic leaders thought war would be a better option rather than peace because the wanted to…

More than a quarter of my lineage can be traced to Russia in Eastern Europe. Life in Russia between 1860 and 1880 was extremely challenging. During this time people experienced severe widespread disease from the highly contagious cholera. This disease was due to food and water being contaminated by fecal matter from lack of proper sanitation equipment. The disease was spread by contaminated water and was responsible for thousands of deaths of people that experienced severe diarrhea and…

The Catholic Church began to have vast authority and control over large regions within the known world. Over the last three decades the church acquired large sums of money and real estate from supporters of the church and Christianity. The papal office had grown accustom to this power it had obtained when two reformers arose and took offense to the structure of the church and its administration. These two reformers were John Wycliffe and Jon Hus. Their ideology and influence created regional…

Communism and Even Laughed (1992), describes the struggle of Eastern European citizens, specifically women in the fight to end communism. Slavenka Drakulić was a Croatian journalist who travelled through various countries such as Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia East Germany, and Bulgaria, spending time with women and listening to their life stories, cooking with them, drinking coffee, and talking with their families. Communism reformed the Easter Europeans mindsets, it deprived them of hope,…

perfect condition were Nanna 's personal letters and a little black book. I could barely contain my excitement. Turning the fragile pages of the book, I couldn 't help but smile. There were names of soldiers from England, America, Canada and Czechoslovakia. Each had their rank. A few had some ‘saucy’ notes. "Are you ashamed of me? For having a book filled with men?" Nanna asked. "Of course not. I love you more than anything,” I answered As I spoke those words, I couldn 't believe what I was…

Germany had to concede other territories to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, and Poland, which was reestablished as in independent republic, and the treaty also dictated that Germany was not allowed to unite with Austria (Baker). Additionally, Germany was disarmed, with the army being reduced to 100,000 men,…