Curated playlist
States and territories established in 1918
- LatviaLatvia was occupied three times in a single war. The Baltic country later sang its way back to freedom.
- Georgia (country)In 2005, Georgia fired its entire traffic police force of around 30,000 officers.
- LithuaniaLithuania was once the largest country in Europe. Its grand duchy reached roughly 650,000 square kilometres.
- Weimar RepublicGermany's Weimar Republic was proclaimed twice on one day in 1918. The second declaration came two hours later.
- Free State of PrussiaPrussia's king was announced as abdicated before he actually had abdicated.
- CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia was dissolved by its own parliament without a single shot fired. The country had lasted 74 years.
- EstoniaEstonia became the first country to allow nationwide binding Internet voting, in 2005.
- ArmeniaArmenia is a landlocked country in the Armenian highlands of West Asia, and its best-loved mountain stands outside its borders. Mount Ararat rises 5,137 meters, or 16,854 feet, making it the highest mountain in the region. It now lies in…
- PolandPoland vanished from the map for 123 years. Its neighbors partitioned it out of existence, yet it rebuilt.
- YugoslaviaYugoslavia's Tito broke with Stalin in 1948, then asked the United States for aid.
- Second Polish RepublicJózef Piłsudski left a German prison and became Poland's leader within a week.