Curious & Exciting Info #5
1920s-1960s
Massive List of Stuff that Should be Familiar
Little Entente
Locarno Agreements
Occupation of Ruhr
League of Nations
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
Anschluss (Austria & Germany)
Eduard Benes
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Destruction of Czechoslovakia
Winter War (USSR & Finland)
Grand Alliance
Yalta conference
Joseph Stalin
Clement Attlee
West Germany (FRG)
Chiang Kai-Shek (Jiang Jieshi)
Nikita Khrushchev
Great Leap Forward
Mandates & trusteeships
Indian National Congress
Alfred Zimmern
Creation of Israel
South Africa & apartheid
Gustav Stresemann
Maginot Line
Rhineland
Sudetenland
Adolph Hitler
Munich agreement
Neville Chamberlain
appeasement
Nazi-Soviet pact
Vilnius
Second front in Europe
Potsdam conference
Winston Churchill
NATO
East Germany (GDR)
Mao Zedong
Enver Hoxha
“Secret speech”
Anglo-Boer War
Muslim League
Joseph Schechtman
Jawaharlal Nehru
Decolonization
Aristide Briand
Comintern
Lebensraum
Haile Selassie
Benito Mussolini
Rome-Berlin Axis
Viacheslav Molotov
collective security
Bessarabia & Bukovina
Atlantic Charter
Teheran conference
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Warsaw Pact
Korean War
Sino-Soviet alliance (1950)
Berlin Wall
Peaceful coexistence
Russo-Japanese War
Jan Smuts
Rafael Lemkin
United Nations
Comintern
The Nazi & Soviet Reorganization of East-Central Europe, 1938-1941*
Germany
Incorporates Austria fully (Anschluss of 1938)
Incorporates Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia (1938)
Establishes protectorate over Bohemia & Moravia (1939)
Annexes Memel (Klaipeda) region from Lithuania (1939)
Invades & incorporates western Poland (1939)
Czechoslovakia
Forfeits Sudetenland to Germany after Munich conference (1938)
Fully dismantled, with territory to Germany, Hungary & Poland (1939)
Austria
Fully incorporated into Germany (Anschluss, 1938)
Poland
Invaded and split between Germany, USSR & Lithuania (1939)
Romania
Loses Bessarabia & Northern Bukovina to USSR (1940)
Cedes Transylvania & southern Dobruja to Hungary & Bulgaria (1940)
Finland
Loses Karelia & other border regions to USSR in Winter War (1939-40)
Baltic States
Lithuania receives Vilnius from destroyed Poland (1939)
Incorporated into USSR (1940)
Italy
Invades & incorporates Albania (1939)
Invades Greece, but needs German help (1940)
Hungary
Gains southern Slovakia & Ruthenia from Czechoslovakia (1939)
Gains Transylvania from Romania (1940)
USSR
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Invades & incorporates eastern Poland (1939)
Gains Karelia & other border regions from Finland in Winter War (1939-40)
Incorporates Baltic provinces after fall of France (1940)
Incorporates Bessarabia & Northern Bukovina from Romania (1940)
See Timeline #5 for precise chronological order of these events.