This is a placeholder for your sticky navigation bar. It should not be visible.

Tag: Iron Curtain

Podcast

10th September 1989: Hungary allows East Germans into Austria

10th September 2019
Tagged as: Austria, Cold War, East Germany, Germany, Hungary, Iron Curtain, Refugees

On the 10^th September 1989, the Hungarian government announced the opening of the border with Austria to allow thousands of East Germans to leave the Communist Bloc.

HistoryPod

Tag: Iron Curtain

10th September 1989: Hungary allows East Germans into Austria

Meta

24th July 1911: Machu Picchu ‘rediscovered’ by US explorer Hiram Bingham III

9th October 1410: The Prague Astronomical Clock first noted in a medieval document

20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris

20th January 1942: Nazi leaders meet at the Wannsee Conference

19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

18th January 1871: Wilhelm I declared German Emperor

17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

Tag: Iron Curtain

Tags

Meta