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113 matches to Stalin Line
Stalingrad, Battle. 1942-3. Russian victory over Germans. Turning point of WWII.
Tito, Josip Broz. 1892-1980. Yugoslav WWII Partisan leader. Led government 1945-. President 1953-, for life 1974-. Defied Stalin 1948.
Trotsky. Lev Bronstein. 1879-1940. Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, with Lenin anti-Stalin. “Worldwide Permanent Revolution”-socialism in Russia requires revolution everywhere. Favoured International Communism over Stalin’s Russian nationalism. Organized First Soviet 1905. Twice banished to Siberia by Czar. 1918 War Commissar...Red Army. Banished by Stalin 1929. Murdered in exile in Mexico.
Ulbricht, Walter. 1893-1973. East German Stalinist General Secretary 1950-71. Head of State 1960-. Ordered Berlin Wall.
Yalta Conference. 1945. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin. Decided partition of Europe after WWII. USSR enters war vs Japan. Potsdam. San Francisco Peace.
Yezhovshchina. 1936-8. Stalin’s Purge led by NKVD chief Yezhovshchina.
Zinoviev, Grigori. 1883-1936. Russian triumvir with Stalin, Kamenev 1919-26. Executed in Purge. COMINTERN chairman 1919-.
Abstract Art. 20C. Color, line and form without subject. Begun by Cezanne.
Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd. 1916. World’s first airline, Britain.
Alvarez, Luis. 1911-88. US physicist. Linear accelerator, bubble chamber.
Athens. 3000BC. 6C BC growth. 5C decline. 4C Macedonia (aut). 27 BC Rome. 1458 Ottoman. 1834 Greek capital.
Ba’al Shem-Tov. 1700-60. Polish founder of Hasidism. Holiness of ordinary existence.
Barrès, Maurice. 1862-1923. French writer, politician. la Colline inspirée 1913.
Berliner, Emil. 1851-1929. Microphone 1877. Disk phonograph record 1887.
Bienvenüe, Fulgence. 1852-1936. “Père du Metro”. Engineered first Paris métro line 1898.
Brunei. 15C + Borneo. 16-18C Decline; European colonies. 1888 British protectorate. WWII Japanese occupy. 1971 Self-governing. 1983 Independent Sultanate.
Caroline Affair. 1837. Canadians destroy US vessel at Niagara for supplying rebels. Mackenzie.
Catiline. 109-62BC. Roman patrician who conspired against Cicero and the Senate.
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. 1894-1961. French writer: Voyage au bout de la nuit 1932.
Chadwick, Edwin. 1800-90. English campaigner for cleanliness to prevent disease. Poor Law Commission, 1832-46. Board of Health 1848-54.
Concorde. 1962-76. French/British joint development of a supersonic airliner.
Cunard, Samuel. 1787-1865. Canadian. First regular steamship line.
Curzon Line. 1920. Russo-Polish armistice line. Became border, 1945.
Cymbeline. c40. Legendary British king, resisted Romans.
Daimler, Gottlieb. 1834-1900. German. Gasoline engine, 1885. Automobile, 1886. Benz. Maybach.