• During World War II, 4,058 ethnic Germans along with several hundred other Axis-nationals living in Latin America were deported to the United States and...
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    During World War II, a number of significant economic, political, and military changes took place in Latin America. The war caused considerable panic...
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    During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European...
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    also Latin America during World War II The first naval battle during the war was fought on December 13, 1939, off the Atlantic coast of South America. The...
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    Nations and then finally declared war on Germany and Japan on 23 February 1945. Latin America during World War II "Sir Eugen Millington-Drake in Uruguay"...
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    world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to the end. The Second World...
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  • Germans were expelled to the United States by the Guatemalan government as part of the deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II....
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    and declared war on its former Axis partner Germany. The northern half of the country was occupied by the Germans with the cooperation of Italian fascists...
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    The history of Colombia during World War II began in 1939. Although geographically distant from the main theaters of war, Colombia played an important...
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    persecution of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia...
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    World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the estimated global population...
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    of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During World...
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    defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar...
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    During World War II, the United States, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese...
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    autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR. During World War II, the republic was abolished by the Soviet government and the Volga Germans were forcibly expelled...
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    At the outset of World War II in September 1939, Denmark declared itself neutral, but that neutrality did not prevent Nazi Germany from occupying the...
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    occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France. This so-called...
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    During World War II, the Spanish State under Francisco Franco espoused neutrality as its official wartime policy. This neutrality wavered at times, and...
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    and Latvia. Since their resettlement in 1945 after the end of World War II, Baltic Germans have markedly declined as a geographically determined ethnic...
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  • The Kingdom of Romania, under the rule of King Carol II, was initially a neutral country in World War II. However, Fascist political forces, especially...
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    for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union attacked Poland, but the war seemed far away until 10 May 1940, when the Germans attacked...
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    Germans suspected of Nazi sympathies be deported from Latin America to the U.S. Many Latin American economies continued to grow in the post-World War...
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    that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Japan. The Axis...
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    their roles as the Allies of World War II that led to victory against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945. Aside from the nuclear arms race and conventional...
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    timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events...
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    1945 onwards in the aftermath of World War II. These escape routes mainly led toward havens in Latin America, particularly in Argentina, though also...
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    War may have suffered deportation. Deportation was widely used by the Sasanians, especially during the wars with the Romans. During Shapur I's reign, the...
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    annexation of German-speaking areas. After the outbreak of World War II, Nazi propaganda vilified Germany's enemies, notably the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union...
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    remained a center of coal mining and oil refining during the Nazi Era, so it was often a target of Allied bombing raids during World War II. There are no...
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  • The historiography of World War II is the study of how historians portray the causes, conduct, and outcomes of World War II. There are different perspectives...
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