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Romania and the regional alliances after the First World War
To ensure its security, Romania sought immediately after the end of the First World War to conclude a series of regional alliances. The Little Entente and the alliance with Poland were subsumed to this objective. The First World War did not end for Romania in November...
Declaration of Czecho-Slovak Independence by the Provisional Government in Paris, 18 October 1918
Reproduced below is the text of the Czecho-Slovak declaration of independence, issued by the Paris-based Provisional Government on 18 October 1918. „At this grave moment, when the Hohenzollerns are offering peace in order to stop the victorious advance of the allied...
The Czechoslovak involvement in the Russian Civil War
By defeating the Red Guards and taking control of the Siberian railway, the Czechoslovak Legion gave a helping hand to the White movement, a loose coalition of forces opposed to the new Bolshevik regime. Moreover, the Whites even requested their help, hoping for a...
The revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion against the Bolsheviks
Immediately after the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, the Czechoslovak Legion decided that the struggle for independence against the Austro-Hungarian Empire must continue and were set to go to France, half a world away. They avoided enemy capture and headed for the east of...