Free Essay: The population started to grow rapidly after WW II. The reason for this was that people wanted to start new life and standard of living was not...
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 (National Dictatorship), later renamed Estado Novo (New State). In 1932, António de Oliveira Salazar rose to power as th...
2 Pages Open Document This immigrant-focused article begins with jarring contrasts of the immigration issue in Europe today, to the holocaust during World War II. Modern day immigrants in the immigration system, this article focuses on specifically on the countries Greece, Hungary, France, and Bulg...
Population in 1939 131,028,000 Military Deaths in WW2 407,318 Civilian Deaths in WW2 11,200 Contributor: C. Peter Chen During WW1, the Japanese military seized German colonies in China and in the Pacific, and after the war the western powers allowed Japan to keep the territories, thus rec...
Entry into WW2 8 Dec 1941 Population in 1939 1,370,300 Civilian Deaths in WW2 40,000 Contributor: C. Peter Chen In 1867, the Straits Settlements was created a Crown Colony, consisting of four states: Penang, Dinding, and Malacca on the western coast of the Malay Peninsula, and Singapore...
Entry into WW2 1 Sep 1939 Population in 1939 15,300,000 Military Deaths in WW2 25,000 Civilian Deaths in WW2 320,000 - Civ Deaths from Holocaust 277,000 Contributor: C. Peter Chen Czechoslovakia was founded in Oct 1918 at the end of WW1, carved out of the defeated Austro-Hungarian Emp...
Urban, modern-oriented writers with upper-class backgrounds had higher probabilities of partaking in resistance, while more marginal, tradition-oriented writers with a lower-class origin had higher probabilities of supporting the occupation; during WW2, the literary elite thus faced both an external ...
Map created by Rean MonfilsThe map above shows many (but not all of) of the ships sunk during World War 2. The map was created by Rean Monfils and combines
The Soviet Union officially maintained neutrality during WW2 but cooperated with and assisted Germany. After Nazi Germany attacked the USSR on June 22, 1941, the country allied with the United Kingdom and then the United States after the latter joined the war in December 1941....
and that attacks have intensified, especially against the civilian population, we make a heartfelt appeal to all parties involved to reach a permanent ceasefire as soon as possible and to negotiate, without preconditions or further delay, the peace long desired by...