second world war
21The Second World War Experience Centre — based in Horsforth, West Yorkshire, England, which is near Leeds, is a registered charity and museum/archive which was set up in 1998 to preserve personal memories of the Second World War before they are lost forever. The archive is international …
22Forgotten Voices of the Second World War — Infobox Book name = Forgotten Voices of the Second World War title orig = image caption = author = Max Arthur illustrator = cover artist = country = UK language = series = Forgotten Voices subject = History genre = Non fiction publisher = Ebury… …
23Tour de France during the Second World War — The Tour de France was not held during the Second World War because the organisers refused German requests. Instead, some other races were organized, often with riders who might otherwise have ridden the Tour.HistoryPolitics and the shadow of war …
24(the) Second World War — the Second World War UK US the war that was fought in Europe, Africa, and Asia between 1939 and 1945 http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/second world war the.htm Thesaurus: cold war and wars in historyhyponym …
25List of Second World War Victoria Cross recipients — 182 Victoria Crosses were awarded to 181 service personnel for gallant acts carried out during the Second World War. The following 180 recipients were awarded the Victoria Cross for the Second World War (1939–1945). Charles Upham received the… …
26Schweik in the Second World War — ( Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg ) is a play by German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht. It was written by Brecht in 1943 while in exile in California, and is a sequel to the 1923 novel The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek. It is set in Prague …
27World War II casualties — World War II was humanity s deadliest war, causing tens of millions of deaths. The tables below provide a detailed country by country count of human losses.Total human lossesThe total estimated human loss of life caused by World War II was… …
28World War I reparations — refers to the payments and transfers of property and equipment that the German country was forced to make under the Treaty of Versailles (1919) following its defeat during World War I.Article 231 of the Treaty (the war guilt clause) declared… …
29World War II evacuation and expulsion — refers to forced deportation, mass evacuation and displacement of peoples spurred on by the hostilities between Axis and Allied powers, and the border changes enacted in the post war settlement. The crisis in former Axis occupied territories… …
30World War II — World War II, often known as the Second World War, began on 1 September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. However, it had its roots in the situation in Europe after Germany’s defeat in 1918 and the Versailles peace settlement. The desire… …
