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  2. British Empire in World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Singapore was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II when the Japanese Empire invaded British Malaya and its stronghold of Singapore. Singapore was the major British military base in South East Asia and nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East". The fighting in Singapore lasted from 31 January 1942 to 15 February 1942.

  3. Latin America during World War II - Wikipedia

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    In the immediate aftermath of World War II and the defeat of fascism, as many as 9,000 Nazis and other fascists escaped Europe to South America via ratlines, including Croats, Ukrainians, Russians, and other Europeans who aided the Nazi war machine. Most, perhaps as many as 5,000, went to Argentina; between 1,500 and 2,000 may have made it to ...

  4. List of expansion operations and planning of the Axis powers

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    De Bono's invasion of Ethiopia (Italian military operation to annex Ethiopian Empire) [4] Map of the Italian operations during the conquest of Ethiopia. Italian conquest of Absinia after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1936; Axis operations and territorial ambitions during Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) Italian military intervention in Spain

  5. Territorial evolution of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Political evolution of Central America and the Caribbean 1700 to present. This is a timeline of the territorial evolution of the Caribbean and nearby areas of North, Central, and South America, listing each change to the internal and external borders of the various countries that make up the region.

  6. British Guiana - Wikipedia

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    British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. [2] [page needed] The first known Europeans to encounter Guiana were Sir Walter Raleigh, an English explorer, and his crew.

  7. Latin America–United Kingdom relations - Wikipedia

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    Mills, Thomas C. "Multilateralism, but not as we know it: Anglo-American economic diplomacy in South America during the Second World War." Journal of Transatlantic Studies 11.3 (2013): 278–291. online; Naylor, Robert A. "The British Role In Central America Prior To The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty Of 1850." Hispanic American Historical Review.

  8. Territorial evolution of the British Empire - Wikipedia

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    The British Empire refers to the possessions, dominions, and dependencies under the control of the Crown.In addition to the areas formally under the sovereignty of the British monarch, various "foreign" territories were controlled as protectorates; territories transferred to British administration under the authority of the League of Nations or the United Nations; and miscellaneous other ...

  9. British Honduras - Wikipedia

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    British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973, [3] until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas.