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Have you ever wondered what Europe looked like before or during the Second World War (WWII)? Take a look at our “before and after” or “then and now” images and see what the war did to the people, the monuments and the landscapes.
Post-war negotiations took place at two conferences in 1945, one before the official end of the war, and one after. These conferences set the stage for the beginning of the Cold War and of a divided Europe. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (left to right) at the Yalta Conference.
Domestically, many people’s first instinct after World War II was to return to normal: to restore law and order after the euphoric anarchy of liberation; to repatriate prisoners and demobilize soldiers; to reopen the bombed Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and have Arturo Toscanini conduct there again; and to bring back long dresses with Christian ...
Map of European borders before WWII After WWII , Germany dramatically decreased in size and split into East and West. While, the Soviet Union gets Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and northern East Prussia.
At the furthest extent of Axis territory in World War II, Germany and Italy controlled a vast portion of continental Europe. The map below shows occupied land and areas of influence at the height of Germany’s territorial expansion.
Switzerland Norway Finland Sweden Ireland Italy Spain Portugal Belgium Romania Netherlands Denmark Bulgaria Greece Albania East Prussia Estonia Latvia Lithuania
Germany invaded France twice in 26 years, each time also invading Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg and drawing Great Britain and Russia into the conflict. Eventually both these wars grew from regional conflicts to span the globe.
Borders of the European countries after the World War 2 (1949) Related post: – Europe Before and After the Great War (World War 1) 0 0 votes.
People often describe World War II as beginning in September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. But Japan and China had already been at war for several years at that point. China was politically...
This animated map series covers European history after WWII: The Marshall Plan, NATO and the Warsaw pact, the creation of the European Union the collapse of the USSR, the wars in Yugoslavia, Baltic countries.