China became Communist, as did North Korea. One of the key events of the era was the Berlin Blockade. In 1948, Stalin tried to cut off West Berlin from West Germany; he wanted to add West Berlin to Communist East Germany. The West airlifted supplies to the city and kept Communist influence at bay in Germany.
The first major immigration of Czechs occurred in 1848 when the Czech "Forty Eighters" fled to the United States to escape the political persecution by the Austrian Habsburgs. ... Unlike previous immigration, new immigrants were predominantly Catholic.
