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The declaration of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, was a momentous event, marking the culmination of decades of Jewish nationalist aspirations and the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, made the declaration in a ceremony held at the Tel Aviv Museum.
Feb 17, 2011 · The Red Army withstood a massive German assault, and then counter-attacked. For two years Soviet forces pushed the German army back into Germany, until in May 1945 Soviet forces accepted the ...
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Jan 14, 2021 · Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany's war from a one-front struggle, against a weakened Britain and a still-neutral United States, into a two-front conflict. The Eastern Front absorbed ...
Mar 27, 2012 · January 7. SS authorities established the civilian prisoner camp Stutthof, near Danzig (Gdansk) on September 2, 1939. On January 7, 1942, the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps redesignates Stutthof as a concentration camp. January 16. German authorities begin the deportation of Jews from the Łódź ghetto to Chelmno.
Feb 17, 2011 · Of the hundreds of thousands of German soldiers who survived World War Two, most spent some time in captivity. What was life like in the prison camps in Britain - and how did the POWs fare...
Aug 2, 2016 · History. Human & Civil Rights. The Holocaust. The spark that set off World War I came on June 28, 1914, when a young Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The assassination took place in Sarajevo, a town in the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina on the Balkan Peninsula.
By the war’s end, twenty-two million men had registered for the Army draft. Five million of these men were actually drafted, another 1.5 million volunteered, and over 500,000 additional men signed up for the Navy or Marines. In all, two million men participated in combat operations overseas.
