The Communist Government of Yugoslavia had kept itself free from the Soviet Union almost from the beginning . Yugoslavia was one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement. It was a fedaration of 6 republics. In four of these republics, the rule of the communist parties came to an end in 1990. By 1992,Yugoslavia broke up into five independent states-the new states of yugoslavia comprising Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In 1975, a party called khmer Rouge had taken control of Cambodia under the leader ship of Pol Pot. The Government of Pol pot established a regime of terror in Cambodia and started following a policy of genocide against its own people.

On 1 september 1939 German armies marched into poland. On 3 September Britain and France declared war on Germany.Thus the invasion of poland marked the beginning of the Second World War. The German armies completed the conquest of poland in less than three weeks as no aid reached poland. In spite of the declaration of war, however, there was little actual fighting for many months. Therefore, the war during the period from  september 1939 to April 1940 when germany invaded Narway and Denmark is known as the "Phoney War"

The fall of the Czar is known as February Revolution because, according to the old Russian calender, it occured on 27 February 1917.

After the defeat of china by Japan in a war over Korea in 1894,France, Russia, Britain and Germany gave loan to china to help it to the payment of 150 million dollors demanded by japan. These western countries the divided china into spheres of influence, which meant that each country had certain regions of china reserved exclusively for its purposes.

          The united states feared that china would be completely parcelled out in exclusive 'spheres of influence' and that its trade with china would be shut off. The USA, therefore, suggested the policy known as the "Open Door". This policy is also described as "Mee too Policy".

          The division of China into "spheres of influence' has often been described as the "cutting of the Chinese melon".