Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Munich Conference in 1938, France and Britain forced Czechoslovakia to cede to Germany its western border areas, the Sudetenland where most of the Ger man-speaking population lived. In return, Hitler promised to make no more territorial demands in Europe. Six months later, however, German tanks stormed into Prague without warning, and Nazi Propaganda Chief Joseph Goebbels read Hitler's decree to stunned Czechoslovak radio listeners: "Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist!" Benes, who fled abroad, tried to make people outside his country see that what had happened there soon would be repeated elsewhere. Soon enough, all the world realized that...
Feeling guilty about the Czechoslovaks, the British allowed Benes to form a wartime exile government in London. Meanwhile, though they had offered no resistance at the time of the German in vasion, the Czechoslovaks waged an underground war against the occupiers. In one of their retaliation moves, the Germans wiped out the entire village of Lidice. After Germany's defeat, Benes took his regime to Prague and started anew. He faced tremendous obstacles. At the Yalta Conference in 1945, Roosevelt and Churchill acceded to Stalin's demand that Czechoslovakia fall into his sphere of influence after...
...fact, it was on Aug. 2 that President Johnson had received pinpoint information on the massive Warsaw Pact forces poised at seven potential entry points. Two East German divisions, the Soviet Eighth and Twentieth Guards Armies, the First Soviet Guards Tank Army and the Twenty-Fourth Soviet Tactical Air Army were mustered in East Germany. Hard by Poland's frontier was a detachment of Polish Silesian infantry and more than 3,000 Soviet tanks and troop-carrying vehicles were less than 25 miles from the Czechoslovak rail center of Zilina. Part of the Soviet Third Army manned Russia...
...before there had been a steady stream of Soviet aircraft flying to East German landing strips near the Czechoslovak border. Scanning radar screens, NATO intelligence officers were worried. Were the planes participating in the menacing war games that Warsaw Pact armies had been playing for more than two months? When the planes took off, heading away from Czechoslovakia-for the time being-the watchers relaxed...
...promises more flak for Author William Manchester. Scheduled for publication on Nov. 25, the book has already been reviewed by West Germany's Der Spiegel, which calls it "un-factual," full of "goofs," and a "gross oversimplification" of the history of the steel and coal concern that manufactured German arms in both World Wars. Manchester, says Der Spiegel, is guilty of factual errors about present-day-Germany, half-truths about the Krupp empire, and "anti-German resentment." Manchester was calm, figuring all along that they wouldn't like the book in Germany...