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  • professor, and author. He survived the horror of Nazi imprisonment ... his students, brought invaluable insights to the scholarly world, and is remembered ...
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  • Kampf, Adolf Hitler detailed his belief that the German people needed Lebensraum ... The idea of a Germanic people without sufficient space dates back ...
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  • Latvia (historically Lattonia, Lettonia, or Lettland), officially ... a resolution on the "Occupation of the Baltic States," in which ...
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  • Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...
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  • Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... Occupied by both Germany and the Soviet Union, Lithuania lost over ...
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  • Estonia (older English spelling Esthonia), officially the Republic ... was dominated by foreign powers through much of its history. The past eight ...
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  • The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed ... The results for Eastern Europe were disastrous as they were held hostage ...
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  • The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, named after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...
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  • The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...
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  • The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...
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  • influence on German and European history. The last capital of Prussia was ... whether Austria or Prussia would dominate the new polity. Had Austria done ...
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  • The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...
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  • artist. He is well known for a number of witty and amusing images. Surrealism ... Magritte was born in Lessines, Belgium, in 1898, the eldest son of ...
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  • The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...
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  • The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... Denmark borders the Baltic Sea on the southeast and the North Sea ...
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  • West Germany (in German Westdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...
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  • is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve ... Swimming is consistently among the top public recreational activities ...
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  • The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe ... Finland consistently ranks high on a number of international analysis ...
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  • 23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police ... Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages ...
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  • in Eastern Europe that borders Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...
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