Eastern Europe, 1900-1939

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First in a three-part series on Eastern Europe that uses archival footage to trace events from 1900 to the fall of Communism and the rise of democracy. This segment traces the history of Eastern Eu...

First in a three-part series on Eastern Europe that uses archival footage to trace events from 1900 to the fall of Communism and the rise of democracy. This segment traces the history of Eastern Europe from the reign of Franz Josef to the rise of Hitler and the beginnings of the Second World War. Topics include the war for Macedonia pitting Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece against the Turks; political manipulation of the Balkans by Russia, Austria, Britain, and France; domination of Serbia; the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; the fall of czarist Russia; the Hungarian Revolution of 1918; rise of the Communist Party; birth of the Czechoslovakian Republic; the Versailles Treaty; rise of Marshal Pilsudski in Poland; formation of the united kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes; and the Munich Conference.

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