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2 days ago · World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China).
- Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa, during World War II, code name for the...
- The Far East
The campaign in Poland, 1939; The Baltic states and the...
- Costs, Impact, Legacy
The heaviest proportionate human losses occurred in eastern...
- German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
The public German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact caused...
- The Battle of Britain
With France conquered, Hitler could now turn his forces on...
- Pearl Harbor Attack
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor marked the beginning of...
- Operation Barbarossa
3 days ago · On 1 September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. On 17 September, the Soviet Union invaded Eastern Poland, and, as a result, Poland was partitioned among Germany, the Soviet Union and Lithuania.
3 days ago · Before the creation of the Warsaw Pact, the Czechoslovak leadership, fearful of a rearmed Germany, sought to create a security pact with East Germany and Poland. These states protested strongly against the re-militarization of West Germany. The Warsaw Pact was put in place as a consequence of the rearming of West Germany inside NATO.
3 days ago · Germany invaded Poland 1 week after conclusion of the pact, because Germany didn’t have to worry about a pincer attack of Britain and France as well as the war with the Soviet Union.
2 days ago · Recent News. May 27, 2024, 1:29 AM ET (The Indian Express) Poland fleshes out details of plan to beef up eastern border. May 26, 2024, 8:34 AM ET (The Telegraph) Nato nations plan 'drone wall' to protect from Russian aggression.
5 days ago · The first German shots would be fired at the Polish garrison at Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig. Meanwhile, the awkward shape of Poland’s western and northern borders with Germany (including East Prussia) and her southern border with occupied Slovakia allowed the Germans to launch their full-scale attack on Poland from almost every possible angle.
2 days ago · On 3 August, representatives from the Soviet Union, East Germany, People's Republic of Poland, the Hungarian People's Republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia met in Bratislava and signed the Bratislava Declaration.
