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Second Polish Republic
This was when the country's history was considered as an independent state. It was officially known as the Republic of Poland or the Common wealth of Poland. The Polish state was created in 1918, in the aftermath of World War I. It continued to exist until 1939, when Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and the Slovak Republic, marking the beginning of World War II in Europe. After several regional conflicts, the borders of the state were fixed in 1922. Poland's neighbors were Cz -
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Hungarian Romanian War
The Hungarian-Romanian War was a armed conflict between the Kingdom of Romania and the Kingdom of Hungary from March 1, 1958 to June 15, 1960. The war was fought over the Transylvania territory. In 1940, Hungary demanded the Transylvanian territory from Romania. Hungary and Romania were no longer friendly towards one another. After Hungary received help from Hitler, Hungary got a large portion of Transylvania. The plans for Romania starting a war over Transylvania was delayed against the Soviet -
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Kingdom of Yugoslavia
During World War I, there was pressure to unify the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. This seemed appropriate since all are descendants of Slavs who settled the southeastern region of Europe and are regarded as an immediate ethnic family. There is no one universal language or religion that they share. Serbians are Eastern Orthodox, and use both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet. Croatians and Slovenians are strict Roman Catholics Croatians and employ only the latter. The Slovenian language is quite dif -
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Polish Soviet War
The Polish–Soviet War was an armed war between Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine against the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic from February 1919 to March 1921. The war was over the control of what is present day Ukraine and parts of present day Belarus and also at some point for the existence of Poland as an independent state. -
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Polish Lithuanian War
The Polish–Lithuanian War was an armed conflict between newly independent Lithuania and Poland in the aftermath of World War I. The conflict primarily concerned territorial control of the Vilnius Region, including Vilnius, and the Suwalki Region, including the towns of Suwalki, Augustow, and Sejny. The conflict was from the progress in the Polish–Soviet War and international efforts to mediate at the Conference of Ambassadors and later the League of Nations. There are big differences in Polish a -
Treaty of St. Germain
The Treaty of Saint Germain-en-Laye, the Treaty of St. Germain, was signed on September 10, 1919 at the Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris, France after World War I. The treaty was between Austria and the Allied Powers. It stated that the Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolve. The new Austria had to give up some of their land to different countries. Austria was no longer allowed to communicate with Germany politically or economically, and the Austrian army had to be reduced to 30,000 volunte -
Treaty of Neuilly
The Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine, the Treaty of Neuilly, was signed on November 27, 1919 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France after World War I had ended. The treaty was between Bulgaria and the Allied Powers. It stated that Bulgaria had to reduce the Bulgarian army to 20,000 men. They also had to give up land to Greece and the futrue Yugoslavia that involved the transfer of 300,000 people, and were required to pay war payments to the Allied Powers. -
Treaty of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon was signed on June 4, 1920 at the Trianon Palace at Versailles, France after World War I. The treaty was between the Allied Powers and Hungary. It stated that Hungary must lose two-thirds of its former territory, which would be divided among Czechoslovakia, Austria, the future Yugoslavia, and Romania, and Hungary's armed forces were to be restricted to 35,000 lightly armed men, only to be used to maintain their internal order. -
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Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was] country in Central Europe covering what is today Hungary, Slovakia, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. Carpathian Ruthenia, which is now part of Ukraine, Burgenland, and other smaller territories surrounding today’s Hungary's borders. It also included Croatia being in personal union with it, united under the Hungarian king. The kingdom existed for almost one thousand years from 1000 to 1918 and 1920 to 1946 which different points were regarded as one of the c -
Bulgarian Coup d'etat of 1923
It was a coup d'etat in Bulgaria implemented by armed forces under General Ivan Valkov's Military Union on June 9, 1923. Hestitantly by a decree of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, it overthrew the government of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union headed by Aleksandar Stamboliyski and replaced it with one under Aleksandar Tsankov. -
War of the Stray Dog
The Incident at Petrich was a short invasion of Bulgaria by Greece near the border town Petrich in 1925. It resulted as of the minority problems that caused many disputes between Greece and Bulgaria after World War I. It started on October 19 when a Greek soldier ran after his dog, which had strayed across the border from Greece at Demirkap. It is sometimes referred to as the War of the Stray Dog. The border was guarded by Bulgarian sentries, and one of them shot the Greek soldier. -
Iron Guard of Romania founded
Romanian fascist organization that constituted a major social and political force between 1930 and 1941.Unique among fascist groups for its reliance on religion, peasants and youths, Romania's Iron Guard was in all other phases an orthodox right wing party. -
Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash
The stock market crash of 1929 spanned a four-day period. Facts point toward the crash beginning on Thursday, October 24, 1929 after a long period of wealth during which many economists thought that the market had would be able to sustain the trend in high stock prices. Black Tuesday, 1929 is considered the beginning of a bad time period in the stock market’s history that resulted in the Great Depression. -
German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact
The German-Polish Non-Aggression Act was a defensive pact signed in January 1934 between Germany and Poland stating that they would resolve any problems through bilateral negotiations and that they wouldn't fight each other for a period of 10 years. Adolf Hitler sought to weaken the French system of alliances in Eastern Europe which attempted to defend Germany's eastern border with hostile states. -
Signing of Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was the agreement signed on 29 Sept 1938 between Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler and Mussolini. Although it was not actually signed until 1 am on 30 Sept, the Munich Agreement was dated 29 Sept. It promised that the Czech army would pull back from the ‘German’ areas of Czechoslovakia by 10 October. Chamberlain and Daladier accepted the Mussolini compromise. They gave Hitler everything he wanted. Daladier even promised that he would make sure the Czechs did not delay in e -
Slovak-Hungarian War
The Slovak-Hungarian War was a war fought between the First Slovak Republic and Hungary in eastern Slovakia from March 23 to March 31, 1939. -
Italian Invasion of Albania
A brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini. Albania was rapidly overrun King Zog I, forced into exile, and the country made part of the Italian Empire as a separate kingdom in personal union with the Italian crown. -
German Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
German Invasion of Yugoslavia
On April 6, 1941, German forces began moving against Yugoslavia. The full invasion began in earnest on 8 April, with German units supported by Italians, Hungarians, Bulgarians and Romanians. Yugoslav forces were not prepared or equipped to withstand such an onslaught, and by 17 April the Yugoslav government had capitulated. The campaign in Yugoslavia was brief and casualties were remarkably light, with just 151 Germans killed and 392 wounded.
