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Word: estonia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to forestall Encirclement in the Baltic, Führer Adolf Hitler invited Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Latvia to conclude non-aggression pacts with Germany. Latvia and Estonia jumped at the chance. The other four countries reserved judgment until their foreign ministers had a chance to meet at Stockholm, agree on a common policy. Sharpest opposition to acceptance of the offer appeared in Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: New Allies | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Treaty of Versailles set up Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland; wiped off the map Montenegro, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Galicia, Livonia, Courland, Schleswig; established a League of Nations, which 42 nations soon joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: 1,063 Weeks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...willing to give assurance that .your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Will to Peace | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...noted authority on Irish oral tradition, Delargy is editor of the Folklore of Ireland Society Jornal and director of the Irish Folklore Commission. He has not only studies Irish traditions in his native land, but has also surveyed folklore in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, and Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Authority on Irish Folklore Will Talk Here Wednesday | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

...Ukraine would be a good bread basket for Germany's starving armies. At the fortress of Brest-Litovsk (now in Poland) on March 3, 1918, a Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White Russian provinces of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia but also the valued Ukraine. Leon Trotsky had been the chief Soviet figure during the negotiations. The Bolshevik delegation had included a soldier, sailor, peasant, worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Liberation | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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