British Ambassador in Poland Howard Kennard offered Poland a British-French-Polish agreement in which the three countries would mutually guarantee each others' borders; this agreement arose from the build-up of tension between Germany and Poland over Danzig. The Soviet Union was purposely excluded fro...
Home » Places » Countries » PortugalPortugal Full Name 82 Portuguese Republic Alliance Neutral or Non-Belligerent Population in 1939 7,595,000 Contributor: C. Peter Chen In 1926, the 16-year-old Portuguese democracy was overthrown, replaced by the nominally-republican Ditadura Nacional (...
Hall of Fame/World War 1 1914 to 1918/World War 2 1939 to 1945 Lest We Forget – 11 November 2021 Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is a Memorial Day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces...
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[19] During the Interwar period, the war was most often called the World War and the Great War in English-speaking countries. After the onset of the Second World War in 1939, the terms World War I or the First World War became standard, with British and Canadian historians favouring ...
The number of people killed, wounded, or missing between September 1939 and September 1945 can never be calculated, but it is estimated that more than 55 million people perished. More than 50 countries took part in the war, and the whole world felt its effects. Men fought in almost every ...
Map of countries on the European continent2. There are 50 countries in Europe with a total of more than 745 million people living on the continent in 2024. Click on the flags to learn more about some of these countries in Europe (further countries will be added by us soon!):...
Why did World War II start in Europe? The Germans had an expansionist desire. After annexing Austria and Czechoslovakia, they invaded Poland in 1939. This triggered WWII when the British and French declared war on Germany.World War II Map of Europe World War II involved many countries that ...
Roughly ten percent of the land area of Golter was autonomous state; countries in the accepted sense. The rest was technically Free Land in the form of city states, beltland, commercial and industrial parks, farming collectives, ecclesiastical dependencies, bank franchises, sept reservations, lease...
2. The editors at Infoplease have decided to split the divide around the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. With the Italian Renaissance, things start to look more familiar than in the Middle Ages. Medieval societies were built around systems of government, economic practices, and schools of ...