Brandenburg- the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701 Poland,Polska,Republic of Poland- a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II ...
In 1926, Chiang Kai-shek led the army of the Kuomintang northward to victory. Chiang reversed Sun's policy of cooperation with the Communists and executed many of their leaders. Thus began the long civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communists. Chiang established (1928) a government in ...
In Cold War: Origins of the Cold War …the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other began to unravel. By 1948 the Soviets had installed left-wing governments in the countries of eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army. The American...
His sister Juliane was married to Konstantin, the brother of Alexander I Tsar of Russia. After the Congress of Vienna and its hence resulting gain of territory which Ernst should sell to Prussia years later, he could achieve Gotha that belonged to the territory of his former wife. Now he ...
He was a warrior of great renown who had traveled to Jerusalem and had fought in Prussia against infidels. He also had a reputation for affability and for statesmanlike self-control, and he had won his crown with the support of “the estates of the realm.” It did not matter much ...
Born in Potsdam (in the Kingdom of Prussia) in 1821, Helmholtz was one of the 19th century’s most knowledgeable scientists, whose name turns up in the histories of multiple scientific fields and specialties. As a youngster, he had an interest in physics, but that seemed a financially unwis...
Denmark has a long history of feuding with its neighbors. They lostNorwayto the Swedish in 1814, and their southern territories were taken by Prussia (later the German Empire) following the Second Schleswig war in 1864. Denmark declared neutrality in the First World War, however they received ...
In the United Kingdom, the Bank of England would be responsible for the prudential oversight. 在英国,由英格兰银行负责审慎监督。 UN-2 Only the war between France and the coalition of Austria, England and Kingdom of Prussia brought liberty to the Jews. 但是,法国与奥、普、英国之间的战争...
its conquest of Prussia and estab-lished the TeutonicOrdensstaat.39The Teutonic Order and the German rulers used a term acquired during thewars against the Muslims in the Latin East – Saracens – to define the heathentribes fighting the Teutonic Order in Prussia and the German population inLivo...
of Warsaw(49,217 square miles [127,470 square kilometres]) and was bordered on the north and west by the Prussian provinces ofEast Prussia, Poznan, and Silesia, on the south by the Austrian province of Galicia, and on the east by Russia. It was united with Russia through the person of...