On September 17 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the East while it was fighting Nazi Germany in the West.

For 80 years the Nazis have served as a simple symbol of pure evil. But this has made the West complacent, argues a leading ...

School children welcome Adolf Hitler to a swastika-adorned street in the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia – territory occupied by Germany after the Munich Agreement of 1938 - Central Press/Hulton Archive ...

Iran does not have the type of support from Russia or China that North Korea does. Also, despite North Korea being a ...

The Nazis had robbed him of his fortune, and fame. Emigration to the US and return to Europe Thomas and Katia Mann emigrated to the US in 1939, after Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia. Mann took up ...

Thomas and Katia Mann emigrated to the US in 1939, after Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia. Mann took up a guest professorship at a university in Princeton.

1918 - Republic of Czechoslovakia proclaimed. Tomas Masaryk elected president. 1935 - Masaryk succeeded as president by Edvard Benes. Nazis take over 1938 - Munich Conference results in cession of the ...

During the summer of 1938, he demanded that Czechoslovakia cede the Sudetenland with its large German population to the Reich and threatened to take it by force if necessary. With Britain and ...

In September 1938, Britain and France agreed to give Nazi Germany control of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia without a fight. It was called the Munich Agreement, or the Munich Betrayal by ...

Czechoslovakia was a member of the League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations. Hitler didn’t care. His policy was to expand Germany’s territory through threats or by invasion.

86 years ago Europe appeased a German dictator and threw Czechoslovakia under the bus. ... The Kremlin justification for its invasion of Ukraine and takeover and incorporation of Ukrainian territories ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut ...