Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Japanese: 硫黄島の星条旗, Hepburn: Iōtō no Seijōki, lit. 'The Flag of Stars and Stripes on Iō Tō') is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War.The photograph, taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945, …

On 15 April 1996 Boris Yeltsin signed a presidential decree giving the Soviet flag (called the Victory Banner, after the banner that was raised above the Reichstag on 1 May 1945) status similar to that of the national flag. The hammer and sickle were removed from the flag, leaving only the star, but they were reinstated later. On certain holidays, the Victory Banner is flown …

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The Flag of Europe or European Flag consists of twelve golden stars forming a circle on a blue field. It was designed and adopted in 1955 by the Council of Europe (CoE) as a symbol for the whole of Europe.. Since 1985, the flag has also been a symbol of the European Union (EU), whose 27 member states are all also CoE members, although in that year the EU had not yet …

ライヒスタークの赤旗（ライヒスタークのあかはた、Raising a flag over the Reichstag）は、第二次世界大戦のベルリン攻防戦において、1945年5月2日に エフゲニー・ハルデイ （英語版） によって撮影された歴史的な写真であり、ソビエト赤軍兵がソビエト連邦の国旗をドイツ国会議事堂（ライヒ ...

Battaglia di Berlino parte del fronte orientale della seconda guerra mondiale; La Bandiera della Vittoria sul Reichstag, celebre foto scattata da Evgenij Chaldej il 2 maggio 1945.: Data: 16 aprile - 2 maggio 1945: Luogo: Berlino: Esito: Decisiva vittoria sovietica Presa di Berlino

Etymology. The term Reichstag, when used to connote a diet, dates back to the Holy Roman Empire.The building was built for the Diet of the German Empire, which was succeeded by the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic.The latter would become the Reichstag of Nazi Germany, which left the building (and ceased to act as a parliament) after the 1933 fire and never …

Germany (German: Deutschland, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ()), officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe.It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union.Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of …

Between 1929 and 1939 was a period of great economic depression worldwide that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagion began around September and led to the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24 (Black Thursday). The economic shock impacted most countries across the world to varying degrees. It was the …

Following the ratification of article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles at the conclusion of World War I, the Central Powers were made to give war reparations to the Allied Powers.Each of the defeated powers was required to make payments in either cash or kind. Because of the financial situation in Austria, Hungary, and Turkey after the war, few to no reparations were paid and the …