It was July 6th, 1918, the dull cold hung in the air. The people of Vladivostok sat in their houses and ate breakfast, when the Czech Legion broke the garrison. Bullets rang out, but in a few hours, the Czech’s seized the port city of Vladivostok. Declaring it an Allied Protectorate. All though little is known about this extraordinary unit, its journey across Eurasia had a profound effect on history, which continue to echo into the modern day. The sounds of the bullets that had just been fired hung in the air as people tried to make sense of the events that had just conspired. Somehow, the Czech Company, had crossed Russia into the far east. And now occupied the Russian Port of Vladivostok, with their tons of gold. But their occupation was not the amazing part, as in this case, it truly was the journey that was amazing. The Czechs began their 900
Israel, probably one of the most controversial countries in the world. From the Settlers to the West Bank to the Six Days War, what even is a “Israel” So, to start off, Israel is a country located on the Eastern Mediterranean, sandwiched in between Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt. Them, being a Jewish nation and their neighbors all being Islamist, they naturally got into many conflicts with their neighbors, being victorious in most if not all of their 25 conflicts. The major ones being the Sinai War, the Israeli War of Independence, the Six Days War, and the Palestinian Conflict. Starting with the first war, the Israeli war of independence wasn’t an “Independence War” in the way we think of it today, but a war for their survival. The Arab League invaded Israel to restore Palestine. Israel, however, repelled this invasion. This war took place between 1947 and 1949. The next major war is the Sinai war of 1956, or Suez Crisis, it was a conflict in which Britain, France and