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Hanging the Iron Curtain January 23, 2012

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).

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Hanging the Iron Curtain January 23, 2012

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  1. Hanging the Iron CurtainJanuary 23, 2012

  2. The “Big Three” at Yalta, Feb. 1945

  3. The “Iron Curtain”by 1949

  4. Poland’s government-in-exile during WW II(the “London Poles”) Wladislaw Sikorski(1881 – 1943) Stanislaw Mikolajczyk(1901-1966)

  5. Yellow Border = Poland from 1920-1937Darker Brown = Poland since 1945

  6. The massacres at Katyn(perpetrated by Soviet security forces, April-May 1940;uncovered by Nazi occupiers in April 1943)

  7. Wladislaw Gomulka(1905-1982)Leader of the Polish Workers’ Party(“Lublin Poles”)

  8. Warsaw rebuilt… over the course of decades

  9. German Breslau…rebuilt as Polish Wroclaw

  10. German Danzig…rebuilt as Polish Gdansk

  11. László Rajk (1909-1949)as Hungary’s interior minister

  12. Jan Masaryk(1886-1948)

  13. Pro-communist demonstrations in Prague

  14. The “Prague coup”(February 1948):Triumph for Klement Gottwaldov

  15. Masaryk’s mysterious death (March 1948)

  16. The resignation of Edvard Benes (June 1948)

  17. Marshal Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980)

  18. Yugoslavia during World War II

  19. The federal states of Yugoslavia (1945-1991)

  20. Stalin and Tito… before the “split”

  21. Hungary: Rajk on trial, 1949

  22. Czechoslovakia: Rudolf Slansky on trial, 1952

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