The world teetered on the brink of another world war in September 1938 as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Premier Francois Duvalier attempted to maintain peace by urging the ...

David Ignatius suggested in his Feb. 9 op-ed, “ The crisis in Ukraine is one for the history books,” that the current Ukraine crisis could be compared in importance to the Cuba crisis in 1962 ...

I am referring to the crisis in Ukraine and what it teaches us, not just about the future but also about the past. Vladimir Putin has turned us all into Neville Chamberlain.

This was the late summer of 1938, when Adolf Hitler, flush from the Anschluss, or 'reunion' of Austria with his Third Reich earlier that year, demanded that Sudetenland, where German settlers had ...

The Sudetenland issue was the slow burning problem that ended with the shameful settlement reached at the Munich Pact. The acquiescence of two democracies to the threats of war menacingly shouted ...

“Aryanization” of Jewish businesses in Sudetenland was launched today, coincident with the arrest of several Jews, while the Czechoslovakian Government continued forcible reparation of Sudeten ...

Nancy Pelosi called Putin's invasion of Ukraine an "evil move" and compared his actions to those of Hitler. "This is the Sudetenland," said Pelosi, referring to a region of Czechoslovakia that ...

This is a Sudetenland -- you cannot ignore what Putin is doing. And nobody is of course ignoring it. But you cannot take it any lighter than what it is, a total assault on democracy.

As the Ukrainian crisis continues, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, the three Baltic states, are increasingly exposed to Russian pressure, for historical, geographic and linguistic reasons.

Finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says Russian President Vladimir Putin%27s tactics resemble HItler%27s German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Russia%27s annexation of Crimea a violation of ...