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In January 1940, the British government introduced food rationing. The scheme was designed to ensure fair shares for all at a time of national shortage.
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United Kingdom issued a message to Iceland stating her willingness to defend Iceland (Iceland had no military force of her own) if Iceland would allow British forces to establish presence there.
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lifelong military figure in Spain, Francisco Franco rose through the ranks until the early 1940s, when he found himself, a right-wing monarchist, in the midst of a left-wing republic.
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It was about after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain.
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Beginning in 1941, Jews from all over the continent, as well as hundreds of thousands of European Gypsies, were transported to the Polish ghettoes.
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Germans worked to secure Germany's ties in southeastern Europe. Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia all joined the Axis alliance in November 1940. During the spring of 1941, Hitler initiated his eastern European allies into plans to invade the Soviet Union.
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The Red Army invades. An armistice is signed in September. Finland concedes more land to the Soviet Union and agrees to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in war reparations
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The former Soviet republic was occupied by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944, when it lost 2.2 million people including almost all of its large Jewish population.
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The United Nations was founded in 1945 and Sweden became a member of the organisation in 1946. Since then, active participation in the UN has been a natural part of Swedish foreign policy.
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Third Republic in 1940 and the termination of World War II, the year 1947 was supposed to inaugurate the definitive era of the Fourth Republic
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the warsaw
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government launched aputnits
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olympics held in alstralia
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olympics started in 1968
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he resind from maininester
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rebated for british
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eta stand for euskadi ta askatasuna
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gro spent 10 years as a physical and scientist
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fourth world conference on women opens in china
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Jan karlssos is elected for president
