Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethnic conflict pose a great threat to peace. However, I differ with your stance. Tribalism (I would prefer the word patriotism) is the wave of the future. The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in today's new world order. And there are other peaceful examples, such as Czechoslovakia, which separated quietly. In Africa colonial powers did not draw borders to accommodate different tribes, and perhaps that is the reason for the ever reappearing ethnic conflict between Hutu and Tutsi, who were bundled into one state (Rwanda). Isn't it time to realize that every nation or group of people...
...throughout his life, which ended when he lost a fight with lymphoma a few weeks ago, he showed a deeper, personal bravery that made him someone very special indeed. As a German boy of eight, he and his mother and siblings made a perilous escape west out of occupied Czechoslovakia to avoid being trapped under the coming Russian terror. And in his first job with TIME, in 1965, he was one of our most fearless war correspondents in Vietnam. He repeated that role in the vicious war in Lebanon in 1975. He then held postings around the world and became...
...army entered the Rhineland in 1936. A tangible reaction from France and Britain would have led to his fall. But since nothing happened, Hitler played on the "cowardice" of democratic principles. That cowardice was confirmed by the shameful Munich Agreement, by which France and Britain betrayed their alliance with Czechoslovakia and abandoned it like a dead weight. At every turn, Hitler derided his generals and their lack of audacity. In 1939 he stupefied the entire world by reaching a nonaggression pact with Stalin. Though they had never met, the two dictators appeared to get along perfectly; it was said that...
...Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia putting an end to "Prague Spring...
...Communists seize Czechoslovakia...