...Europe to the Soviet Union. This belt of land which is from 200 to 450 miles wide and which stretches from the Baltic in the north to the Black Sea in the south gives the Soviet Union the possibility of exercising military preponderance over the West European...

...Europe to the Soviet Union. This belt of land which is from 200 to 450 miles wide and which stretches from the Baltic in the north to the Black Sea in the south gives the Soviet Union the possibility of exercising military preponderance over the West European...

...Religions Environment In the eighteenth century the Kingdom of Poland comprised a huge area stretching from the Baltic in the north to the Black Sea in the south, and from Central Europe in the west to the Dvina and Dnieper rivers in the east. Its major population...

...to live, and the continuing geopolitical fact that the zone of weak states between Berlin and Moscow from the Baltic in the north to the Black Sea in the south is a breeding ground for conflict and even war. That is the context within which North Atlantic Treaty...

...were a desperate gamble by Jogaila to avert a seemingly inevitable subjugation. Lithuania, stretching from the Baltic in the north to the Black Sea in the south, to the upper Volga and beyond the Dnieper in the east, was a highly unstable political entity. Its...

...of its own. It was under Vytautas that Lithuania achieved its greatest territorial exent, stretching from the Baltic in the north to the Black Sea in the south - not surprisingly, Grand "»04 Duke Vytautas "the Great" has always been a bigger national hero in...

...the medieval East Slavic state that existed between the tenth and thirteenth centuries and extended from the Baltic in the north to the Black Sea in the south, and from the Carpathian Mountains in the west to the Volga River in the east, has remained at the center...

...resources. Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston S. Churchill Roosevelt • 5 • The German Army, stretching from the Baltic in the north to the Black Sea in the south, continued its march toward Moscow. On August 20 the siege of Leningrad began. Within three weeks the...

...needed to be done and how it was to be justified As the army invaded Russia on 22 June 1941 in a line from the Baltic in the north to the Black sea in the south, right behind it came the four "special units." The procedure for killing Jews was rather simple, and...