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May
23
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- THE
LAST CZAR OF RUSSIA
- Czar
Nicholas II, last of the
Romanovs
- Events
following Black Sunday, January
9, 1905, when the people of
Russia petitioned their ruler and
were fired upon by police outside
the Winter
Palace.
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 "All
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Austrian
Archduke Charles
German
Cruiser Emden
Kaiser
Wilhelm II
Sinking
of the Lusitania
WWI
Poster
Lloyd
George
British Prime Minister
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June
3
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- FROM
SARAJEVO TO
VERSAILLES
- First
World War
- The
assassination of Austrian
Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June
26, 1914 and the avalanche of
mobilizations, ultimatums and war
declarations that brought World
War I to Europe.
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June
10
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- THE
BIG FRAUD
- The
Russian Revolution - Part
I
- The
Bolsheviks Lenin and Leon Trotsky
create a heartless new military
state which deprives the Russian
people of their hope for food and
security, as an era of
discontent, bloody struggle and
militant communism
begins.
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June
17
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- FROM
LENIN TO STALIN
- The
Russian Revolution - Part
II
- The
downfall and murder of Trotsky
and the rise and unsurpassed
power of Stalin in one of the
most significant social phenomena
in the world's history, the
Russian Revolution.
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June
24
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- A
NATION IS BORN
- Rise
of the Republic of
Czechoslovakia
- Thomas
Garrigue Masaryk organizes
fighting units of the Czech
Legion, delivers his people from
bondage to a foreign country and
becomes the new nation's first
president.
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THE
ROYAL CAVALCADE
- The
last great monarchy of
Europe
- The
reigns of English kings and
queens who were successors to the
long and successful rule of Queen
Victoria.
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July
1
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- THE
RISE OF BENITO
MUSSOLINI
- Il
Duce
- As
the first contemporary dictator,
Mussolini relentlessly built up
his military power and a secret
police system. His malevolent
influence on the barbarous events
in Europe began when the Fascist
hordes launched their attack on
Ethiopia.
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July
8
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- THE
RISE OF ADOLPH HITLER
- The
Story of a Dictator
- A
demonic man who was entrusted
with the formation of a new
government in 1933 and then
tapped the forces of emotion and
hysteria to plunge European
nations into a bloodbath of
chaos, rage and hate.
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July
15
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- THE
LAST WALTZ
- The
"Anschluss"
- The
end of Austrian independence and
the establishment, through
Anschluss (annexation),of
Hitler's merciless pattern of
world conquest in his bold move
toward the creation of greater
Germany.
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July
22
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- THE
MUNICH TRAGEDY
- The
Munich Treaty
- A
pictorial story of
Czechoslovakia, a little country
offered as a helpless sacrifice
to the ambition of a madman, and
the Munich Treaty, a fatal act of
appeasement by European statesmen
which destroyed democratic
resistance in Eastern Europe.
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July
29
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- THE
AGGRESSION ON
ETHIOPIA
- The
Prelude to WW II
- Mussolini
invades Ethiopia, where Emperor
Haile Selassie I, has instituted
progressive and far-reaching
reforms, but the League of
Nations imposes sanctions against
Italy and tensions among European
nations mount.
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August
5
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- THE
SPANISH TRAGEDY
- Civil
War in Spain
- As
the people of Spain fight for
social and political freedom, the
country becomes a battlefield
between the reactionary forces of
the nobility, church and private
capitalism and the radical forms
of extreme leftism.oreign powers,
obsessed with dictatorial
ambitions, use the country as a
testing ground for new military
weapons and tactics.
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August
12
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- THE
RED CZAR, STALIN
- Joseph
Stalin, Russia's "man of steel",
rose with suddennesss after the
death of Lenin to become the
supreme dictator of the Bolshevik
state and launched a regime of
terror, repeated "purges" of
generals, political leaders,
minor delinquents and implacable
enemies, and assassination of the
proletariat.
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August
19
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- HOW
WAR CAME TO EUROPE
- The
Dawn of World War
II
- The
ghastly build-up to war after
Hitler disgracefully plots his
territorial ambitions in Europe
and invades Czechlosovakia, then
Poland in the name of one people,
one nation, one Fuehrer.
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