Czechoslovakia

Peaceful resistance, which is a way in an attempt to accomplish goals such as social change, through nonviolent protest. I personally believe that nonviolent resistance impacts our free society, in a positive way. I see it this way because in short, simple words, it is least likely to get someone killed and set a good example for the future generations. This sets a good example because it shows that problems can be solved without blood shed, but instead with words and actions. In the article…

After World War One, there were many types of new government that emerged from the chaos of the war. But, the two major governments were dictatorships and democracies. In Germany, Italy and Russia, the dictators Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin came to power after the fall of democracy in each country. There were many reasons for the change to dictatorship, including inflation, unemployment and a lost sense of trust in democracy. These dictatorships ruled for many years during the…

The conference was held in order to help maintain peace in Europe and decide the actions that would occur in Czechoslovakia. The agreement was made between France, Britain, Italy and Germany. The outcome of the Munich Conference was Czechoslovakia half parts of the territory annexed. This allowed for the “Sudetenland Germans to be incorporated into the Reich”. The actions that took place were in great favor of Hitler, even though…

War; the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which, beginning in the late '60s, was starting to look more and more like a second civil war; the May 1968 Paris Crisis; the Polish uprisings and "Prague Spring" Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968; all of which could have been the spark that started the great fire.…

Chapter 3.3 - How Stalin aimed to establish Soviet Security with the ‘Iron Curtain’ and Eastern buffer zones surrounding the USSR As the Second World War had drawn to an end Stalin had two main immediate aims; the economic recovery and reconstruction of Soviet territory backed by reparations, which was already partly covered in the previous segments. The other was to establish a Soviet Sphere of influence in the occupied Eastern European countries, as a means of making a ‘buffer zone’ against…

all these emotions Thomas was brave, and most of all he was loyal. Would you be loyal or would you be a traitor to say yourself? In the beginning Thomas’s parent moved from Germany to Czechoslovakia. In the town of Lubochna Thomas’s father bought a small hotel. Friends of Thomas’s dad who moved to Czechoslovakia from Germany stayed in that hotel. In 1938 soldiers of Hitler’s side took over the hotel. Thomas’s family fled to Zilina until Thomas…

behind her entire family in the tiny farming village of Plavec, Czechoslovakia and set out on her own on a voyage to the United States of America on the Steamship Oldenburg in search of opportunity. Thirteen days later, she arrived in the Port of New York and went to live with her mother’s uncle, Stefan Gala, on Pembroke Street in Bridgeport, CT.…

countries in the world due to its invincible army. During the Stalin’s era, Moscow was the center of an international communist movement. Most of the communist nations during the Cold War were the Soviet satellite states such as Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria, along with China. From the Soviet’s perspective, the foreign communist parties could be used in diplomatic games with the Western powers and as necessary parts of the Soviet project to create one big international communist…

In addition to that, the Germans took the blame for starting world war one. So, in the writing of the Versailles treaty the writers included a clause for blaming the Germans; for starting the war Germany had to pay 226 billion Reich marks in gold around £11.3 billion. They also had to give the Alsace Lorraine which hindered their ability to pay the money. The debt that Germany has to pay made them poorer than they were after the war. Hitler used the damaged Germans to give him power to fight…

World War II occurred September 1, 1939 through September 2, 1945. Hitler had invaded Poland (source 1). Soon after the invasion in Poland; France and Britain declared war on Germany. Britain and France was forced to sell items and they had used that money for war (source 1). This war was the most devastating one of all. There are different reasons why the war had spiraled out of control. For various of reasons like the Treaty of Versailles, how Hitler became so powerful, and how the peace was…