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Vor einem Tag · Polish People's Republic. / 52.217°N 21.033°E / 52.217; 21.033. The Polish People's Republic [a] was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern-day Republic of Poland and a satellite state of the Soviet Union. From 1947 to 1952 it was known as the Republic of Poland, [b] and it was also ...
Vor 2 Tagen · by Brent M. Eastwood. Summary: Throughout its history, Russia, and formerly the Soviet Union, struggled to build a fleet of aircraft carriers due to financial constraints, prioritization of land ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic ( PMR ), [c] is a breakaway state internationally recognized as part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Moldova–Ukraine border, as well as some land on the other side of the river's bank.
Vor 4 Tagen · Truman was reluctant to break with the Soviet Union at first, but tensions rose in places like Iran, Turkey, and Germany, and Truman became convinced that the Soviet Union sought world domination. He adopted a policy of containment, which aimed to prevent the further expansion of Soviet influence. Liberals led by Henry Wallace hoped for cooperative relations with the Soviet Union, but Truman ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, estimates of Gulag victims ranged from 2.3 to 17.6 million (see History of Gulag population estimates). Mortality in Gulag camps in 1934–40 was 4–6 times higher than average in the Soviet Union. Post-1991 research by historians accessing archival materials brought this range down considerably.
Vor 4 Tagen · Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. The term Iron Curtain had been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century, but ...
Vor einem Tag · World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, participated in the conflict, and many invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between ...
