Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain instituted its "noninterference" policy in Spain. Italy and Germany-and Russia-continued to interfere. In 1937 China, a League member, was invaded by Japan. The League did nothing. In 1938 Russia proposed a joint demarche of Great Britain, France and the U. S. S. R. to protect Czecho-Slovakia, offered to carry out "to the letter" her guarantees to France and Czecho-Slovakia. Munich followed. In 1939, after Germany took the rest of Czecho-Slovakia, Russia proposed a six-power conference to devise resistance to further aggression. Great Britain said the proposal was "premature." A month later Russia proposed...
Second Munich. Less than 21 months ago Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain, France's Edouard Daladier, Italy's Benito Mussolini and Germany's Adolf Hitler met at Munich and signed away the integrity of Czecho-Slovakia. Since history turned on that 29th of September 1938, ten European nations have lost their independence. Proud and once dominant France was the eleventh to lie at the mercy of Europe's dictators, and history never recorded a supremer irony than Adolf Hitler's decision to settle the fate of France with Benito Mussolini at Munich...
March 13. Hitler takes remainder of Czecho-Slovakia...
Austria went down, then Czecho-Slovakia...
...began another show-the biggest and ghastliest show of the generation, perhaps of all the age. It was a titanic extravaganza prepared for seven years by Hitler, Goring, Goebbels and all.their Nazi craftsmen. Mere curtain-raisers for this show had been their absorption of Austria, their bludgeoning of Czecho-Slovakia, their rape of Poland. Only the prologue was their swallowing of Denmark, their kidnapping of Norway and imprisonment of Sweden. Now came the reil thing-grand-scale Blitzkrieg across Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands with an end view either to conquering the British Isles or smashing France, or both. Adolf...