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Hanging the Iron CurtainJanuary 23, 2012
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The “Big Three” at Yalta, Feb. 1945
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The “Iron Curtain”by 1949
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Poland’s government-in-exile during WW II(the “London Poles”)
Wladislaw Sikorski(1881 – 1943)
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk(1901-1966)
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Yellow Border = Poland from 1920-1937Darker Brown = Poland since 1945
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The massacres at Katyn(perpetrated by Soviet security forces, April-May 1940;
uncovered by Nazi occupiers in April 1943)
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Wladislaw Gomulka(1905-1982)
Leader of the Polish Workers’ Party(“Lublin Poles”)
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Warsaw rebuilt… over the course of decades
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German Breslau…rebuilt as Polish Wroclaw
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German Danzig…rebuilt as Polish Gdansk
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László Rajk (1909-1949)as Hungary’s interior minister
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Jan Masaryk(1886-1948)
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Pro-communist demonstrations in
Prague
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The “Prague coup” (February 1948):
Triumph for Klement Gottwaldov
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Masaryk’s mysterious death (March 1948)
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The resignation of Edvard Benes (June 1948)
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Marshal Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980)
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Yugoslavia during World War II
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The federal states of
Yugoslavia (1945-1991)
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Stalin and Tito… before the “split”
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Hungary: Rajk on trial, 1949
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Czechoslovakia: Rudolf Slansky on trial, 1952