The Danzig crisis was a 1939 crisis that led to World War II breaking out in Europe. On 8 January 1918, the U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the...
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The Danzig crisis of 1932 was an incident between the Free City of Danzig (modern Gdańsk, Poland) and Poland concerning whether the Polish government...
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The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of...
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Carl Jacob Burckhardt (section The Danzig crisis)
the latter were League of Nations High Commissioner for the Free City of Danzig (1937–39) and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross...
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Saint-John Perse (section The Danzig crisis)
"France and Great Britain were at the turning of the road". During the Danzig crisis, St. Léger very much favored Daladier's plans for a "peace front" of...
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Edward Bernard Raczyński (section The Danzig crisis)
an interest in the Danzig crisis. On 21 March 1939, Lord Halifax presented to Raczyński a note stating in regard to the Danzig crisis: "That His Majesty's...
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Johannes von Welczeck (section The Danzig crisis)
make concessions in the Danzig crisis. Welczeck's anti-Polish arguments where he sought to blame Poland for the Danzig crisis and argued that it would...
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far more interested in having Yugoslavia enter the conflict if the Danzig Crisis led to a war than were the British. From Gamelin, he learned the French...
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Causes of World War II (section Danzig crisis)
Hitler's claims in the summer of 1939 on Danzig and the Polish Corridor provoked yet another international crisis. On August 25, Britain signed the Polish-British...
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Hans-Adolf von Moltke (section Danzig Crisis)
the Danzig Crisis would lead to British pressure on the Poles to allow the Free City to rejoin Germany. Moltke initially wanted the Danzig Crisis to end...
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Britain's reputation during the Danzig crisis. Watt argued that Hudson along with the other amateur diplomats in the Danzig crisis such as the Australian pilot...
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to deter Germany from further aggression was inaugurated. During the Danzig crisis, Koo supported the policy of the "peace front", believing that it would...
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that Britain had no business being involved in the Danzig crisis and should withdraw from the crisis to allow Germany to settle its dispute with Poland...
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only a secondary concern. The report warned that in the event of the Danzig crisis turning into a war, the Japanese would probably seek to dominate the...
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George Ward Price (section The Danzig crisis)
articles during the Sudetenland crisis had been very pro-German took a slightly more critical approach during the Danzig crisis of 1939. In an article, Ward...
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Léon Blum (section The Danzig crisis)
catastrophe without being willing to do anything to stop it. During the Danzig crisis of 1939, Blum supported the measures taken by Britain and France to...
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need the Palace of Versailles to ensure national survival. During the Danzig crisis, Bullitt was very supportive of France while suffering from extreme...
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Ivan Maisky (section The Danzig crisis)
still had hopes of resolving the Danzig crisis by working out a Munich-type deal under which the Free City of Danzig would "go home to the Reich". In...
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George Ogilvie-Forbes (section The Danzig crisis)
accused the Poles of being the instigators of the Danzig crisis by refusing to allow the Free City of Danzig to rejoin Germany and in addition to demanding...
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Jakob Suritz (section The Danzig crisis)
best known for serving as the Soviet ambassador to France during the Danzig crisis. Suritz was born in Dvinsk in the Russian empire (modern Daugavpils...
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Danzig crisis in 1939. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, a currency union was planned to complement the customs union between Danzig and the...
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Munich Agreement (redirect from Munich Crisis)
made apparent by the dispute over the Polish Corridor and the Free City of Danzig and resulted in the signing of an Anglo-Polish military alliance. That made...
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Morgenstern-Podjazd into the Free City of Danzig (modern Gdańsk, Poland). The cruise of the Wicher resulted in the Danzig crisis of 1932, the successful resolution...
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Robert Coulondre (section The Danzig crisis)
Coulondre agreed with. The nature of the Danzig crisis with Germany demanding that the Free City of Danzig, a city that was 90% German "go home to the...
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Émile Naggiar (section The Danzig crisis)
person", Naggiar worked hard during the Danzig crisis for an alliance with the Soviet Union. During the Danzig crisis, the French were more committed to achieving...
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Charles Theodore Te Water (section The Danzig crisis)
settlement of the Danzig crisis could be arranged and felt the best outcome would be for Britain to pressure Poland to allow the Free City of Danzig to "go home...
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anti-appeasement poem about the Danzig crisis that read in jest: "Lord Halifax is ready/To take off for Berlin/And if he gives them Danzig/We might just save our...
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American heavy metal band Danzig. It was originally released in August 1988 as the lead single from their debut album, Danzig. In 1993–1994, almost six...
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occupying Hainan island, an offer that the British rejected. Given the Danzig crisis, Corbin came to feel that activating the Singapore strategy of sending...
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to the Prime Minister with one voice: 'Keep out of it!'" During the Danzig crisis, the Daily Mail was inadvertently used by the German Foreign Minister...
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