Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually active in nearly every theatre of war , most combat was centred in Italy , [ 1 ] Northwestern Europe, [ 2 ] and the North Atlantic.
Between 13.5 and 16.5 million German-speakers fled, were evacuated or later expelled from Central and Eastern Europe, [48] [49] making this event the largest single instance of ethnic cleansing in recorded history. estimates of the number of those who died during the process are being debated by historians and they range from 500,000 to 3,000,000.
September 1939 – The evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II; at the outset of World War II, London and major British cities were evacuated in preparation of the Blitz, with 1.5 million displaced in the first three days of the official evacuation. The final number of evacuees reached 3.75 million.
Operation Gauntlet was an Allied Combined Operation from 25 August until 3 September 1941, during the Second World War.Canadian, British and the Norwegian armed forces in exile (Utefronten, Outside Front) landed on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, 650 mi (1,050 km) south of the North Pole.
During World War II, the adjacent cities of Halifax and Dartmouth provided heavy support for Canada's war effort in Europe. Not long after VE-Day , on the evening of Wednesday, July 18, a fire broke out on the jetty of the Bedford Magazine, now CFAD Bedford (Magazine Hill) on the Bedford Basin , north of Dartmouth.
Margaret Brooke will be named a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her actions during the sinking. October 21 – Gordon Conant becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Mitchell Hepburn; December 12 – The Knights of Columbus Hostel fire in St John's, Newfoundland, kills 99.
Evacuation for Odessa during the Siege of Odessa; Evacuation from Crimea during the Crimea Campaign; Evacuations during the Siege of Leningrad; Operation Ke, Japanese evacuation from Guadalcanal, Jan-Feb 1943; Japanese evacuation from Kiska, July 1943; Allied invasion of Sicily, Axis evacuation order to the Royal Italian Army over the Strait of ...
Evacuation in the Soviet Union; Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940; Evacuation of Polish civilians from the USSR in World War II; Evacuation of Polish National Treasures during World War II; Evacuation of the Gibraltarian civilian population during World War II; Evacuation of the Louvre collection during World War II