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