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20 hours ago · Mexico. The first Braceros arrive in Los Angeles, 1942. Mexico entered World War II in response to German attacks on Mexican ships. The Potrero del Llano, originally an Italian tanker, had been seized in port by the Mexican government in April 1941 and renamed in honor of a region in Veracruz.
20 hours ago · A neighborhood in the Kozhukhovsky Bay of the Moskva River with a large sign promoting the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow, 1975. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party ...
20 hours ago · The Polish diaspora is also known in modern Polish as Polonia, the name for Poland in Latin and many Romance languages . There are roughly 20,000,000 people of Polish ancestry living outside Poland, making the Polish diaspora one of the largest in the world [1] and one of the most widely dispersed. Reasons for displacement include border shifts ...
20 hours ago · TALLINN, Estonia -- Authorities in Belarus on Tuesday carried out raids and property seizures targeting more than 200 opposition activists, the latest step in the unrelenting government crackdown ...
20 hours ago · Belarus: 1918 1919 1919 1927 1937 1940 1941 1944 1951 1991 1995 2012 Belarus: Belgium: 1790 1830 1831 Belgium: Belize: 1919 1981 2019 Belize: Benin: 1958 1975 1990 Benin: Bhutan: 1949 1956 1969 Bhutan: Bolivia: 1825 1826 1851 Bolivia: Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1377: 1878 1878 1908 1918 1941 1946 1992 1998 Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1448: 1908 ...
20 hours ago · A short-lived monarchical state known as the Principality of Albania (1914–1925) was succeeded by an even shorter-lived first Albanian Republic (1925–1928). Another monarchy, the Kingdom of Albania (1928–1939), replaced the republic. The country endured occupation by Italy just prior to World War II (1939–1945).
20 hours ago · Name Common English terms for the German state in the Nazi era are "Nazi Germany" and the "Third Reich", which Hitler and the Nazis also referred to as the "Thousand-Year Reich" (Tausendjähriges Reich). The latter, a translation of the Nazi propaganda term Drittes Reich, was first used in Das Dritte Reich, a 1923 book by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck. The book counted the Holy Roman Empire ...
