Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went back to Russia and pushed his country's borders to the Baltic Sea. Then, by the Baltic Peter built the beginnings of his favorite city, St. Petersburg. The town grew, and Peter gave it a fortress touching the water-great Kronstadt. Peter called the place his "paradise,"eventually moved his capital there, by the water...
...R.A.F.s-Royal and Red-last week gave Germany a nervous time. The Royal A.F. launched its biggest raid of the war, in which, by day and night, a total of 850 planes ranged over Germany and German-held territory. The Red A.F., apparently operating from Baltic island bases, kept striking by night, in relatively small numbers but persistently. Between them they kept Berliners under cover five nights out of seven...
Anybody wanting to win a few bets from well-informed friends can probably do so by putting the following question: Within the lifetime of Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), what was the largest independent European State? Answer: Lithuania, which stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and in depth extended from the Polish border to the east of Kiev. In 1386 Lithuania's Grand Duke Jogaila married Poland's Queen Jadviga and became the Polish King...
Charles XII of Sweden invaded Russia in 1707 to punish Tsar Peter for raids on his Baltic provinces. Peter drew him beyond his depth...
...Europe and its exploitation by Germany. Remarkably foresighted chiefly because he took the Germans' plans seriously, André Chéradame wrote after reading this brochure, in 1901: "The inevitable war between Germany and Russia will finish this undertaking. If it is successful, Germany will annex the Baltic provinces, Esthonia, Livonia and Courland. She will set up a Polish state and a Ruthenian kingdom to which will be sent the Jews and the Slavs who will emigrate from the Greater German Empire. . . . Pan-Germany will have 86,000,000 people, and the territory subjected to its direct and exclusive...