1939 Events - Second Polish Republic, Brooklands, Free City of Danzig, Spanish Republican Air Force, Second Spanish Republic (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Second Polish Republic, Brooklands, Free City of Danzig, Spanish Republican Air Force, Second Spanish Republic, Directorate of the Klaip da Region, Gaiety Theatre, London, Carpatho-Ukraine, Fourth National Government 1937-1939, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Albanian Kingdom, Balkan Federation, Second Czechoslovak Republic, Silesian Voivodeship, Pozna Voivodeship, Straits dollar, Hatay State, Anarchist Catalonia, Parliament of the Klaip da Region, Warsaw Fire Guard, United States Lighthouse Service, Fourth National Ministry, D jima Rice Exchange, St. Viator College, Bia ystok Voivodeship, Absaroka, Committee of Imperial Defence, Die Neue Welt, Biysky District, Silesian Chess Congress, Warslow Athletic Club, College of Sociology, Anglo-German Fellowship, Grand National Films Inc., Neptune Beach, Stage Society, Targi Wschodnie, German National Prize for Art and Science, Europa Press, Danzig gulden, War Finance Corporation, Group Theatre, Normandy Cafeteria, Targi Po nocne, Society of Friends of Science in Wilno, American Federation of Actors. Excerpt: The Free City of Danzig (German: Polish: ) was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (today Gda sk) and surrounding areas. The Free City was created on 15 November 1920 in accordance with the terms of Part III, Section XI of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 without a plebiscite. The Free City included the city of Danzig and over two hundred nearby towns, villages, and settlements. As the League of Nations decreed, the region was to remain separated from the nation of Germany, and from the newly-resurrected nation of Poland. The Free City was not an independent State; it was under League of Nations protection and put into a binding customs union with Poland. Poland also had special utilization rights towar...