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...
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...
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...
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...
In 1922, the party renamed Russia the Soviet Union and turned it into a federation of constituent republics. The largest republic of the Soviet Union was Russia, with 76% of the territory and 52% of the population. Geographically, the Soviet Union encompassed the territory stretching from ...
but they were not enough to reverse the effects of the Depression. Without the war’s economic effects, the Great Depression would have continued in the U.S., bringing starvation, suffering, and death. Happiness in the nation would fade as families fell apart, the birthrate shrank, and the...
Such food added to the overall caloric levels of a population on rations, offered a material form of comfort, and sustained connections between the military and home fronts. This article utilizes written memoirs from the BBCs WW2 Peoples War website to examine peoples memories of servicemens work...
Overall, it seems Latvia was a strategically important location for imperial Russia and Soviet regime. That is why Riga (550 thousand), Daugavpils (115 thousand), and Liepaja (94 thousand) had over 90 thousand population in the years of World War 1. ...
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