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  1. Controversy. Key perpetuators of the Nanking Massacre were tried in front of the International Military Tribunal of the Far East, as well as the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal, found guilty and executed. The event however is still highly debated politically.

  2. The German occupation surrendered on 5 May 1945 after the death of 205,901 Dutch in Europe and about 30,000 in the Dutch East Indies. The NSB was outlawed on 6 May 1945. Its leader, Anton Mussert, was arrested on the following day and would eventually be found guilty and sentenced to death.

    • Allies-Minor Member Nation or Possession
    • 34 Kingdom of the Netherlands
    • 10 May 1940
    • 8,729,000
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  4. William V of Jülich, through his marriage in 1328 to the daughter of Count William III of Holland, became the brother-in-law of Emperor Louis IV, who made Jülich a margravate in 1336, and of Edward III of England, whom he helped to secure an alliance….

  5. Rescue at Dunkirk. Winston Churchill. Operation Barbarossa. The Eastern and Mediterranean Fronts. The Holocaust. When the First World War happened, it made the world unstable. The next international conflict was World War II and it was worse.

    • Nazi Germany engaged in a rapid process of rearmament through the 1930s. They forged alliances and psychologically prepared the nation for war.
    • Britain and France remained committed to appeasement. This was despite some internal dissent, in the face of increasingly inflammatory Nazi actions.
    • The Second Sino-Japanese war began in July 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. This was carried out against a backdrop of international appeasement and is regarded by some as the start of World War Two.
    • The Nazi-Soviet Pact was signed on 23 August 1939. The Pact saw Germany and the USSR carve up central-eastern Europe between themselves and pave the way for German invasion of Poland.
  6. Oct 29, 2009 · Lend-Lease Act. On April 9, 1940, Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark, and the war began in earnest. On May 10, German forces swept through Belgium and the Netherlands in...

  7. The decades immediately after 1587 were marked by close collaboration between Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, “advocate” of Holland (the legal and executive secretary of the provincial States), and Maurice of Nassau, William I’s second son (the first, Philip William, became prince of Orange and remained loyal to Spain).

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