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The Communist Party of Germany (German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, pronounced [kɔmuˈnɪstɪʃə paʁˈtaɪ ˈdɔʏtʃlants] ⓘ; KPD [ˌkaːpeːˈdeː] ⓘ) was a major far-left political party in the Weimar Republic during the interwar period, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in West Germany ...
During the Spanish Civil War, several units of German Republican volunteers (most notably the Thälmann Battalion of the International Brigades) were named in his honour. [11] During World War II, Yugoslavia's leader Tito organized a company of Danube Swabians and Wehrmacht defectors as the Ernst Thälmann Company to fight the German enemy. [25]
Timeline of Sweden during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II (1939–1945) Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II; Chronology of the liberation of Belgian cities and towns during World War II; Timeline of the Manhattan Project (1939–1947) Timeline of air operations ...
World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939 [1] [2] with the German invasion of Poland and the United Kingdom and France's declaration of war on Germany two days later on 3 September 1939. Dates for the beginning of the Pacific War include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] or the earlier Japanese ...
Germany invaded Poland and captured the Free City of Danzig on 1 September 1939, beginning World War II in Europe. [85] Honouring their treaty obligations, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. [86] Poland fell quickly, as the Soviet Union attacked from the east on 17 September. [87]
The Armistice with Germany marks the end of World War I. German troops are given 72 hours to evacuate occupied territories [5] and Allied troops subsequently move in and occupy the German Rhineland. [citation needed] November 13 The Hungarian–Romanian War begins. December 27 Start of the Greater Poland Uprising against German rule.
It was the largest Asian war of the 20th century, [1] and made up more than 50% of the casualties in the Pacific theater of World War II. World War II (September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945) – global war centered in Europe and the Pacific but involving the majority of the world's countries, including all of the major powers such as Germany ...
A Companion to World War II (2013): 93–101. Himmer, Robert "Rathenau, Russia, and Rapallo." Central European History 9#2 (1976): 146–183. Hoppe, Bert, and Mark Keck-Szajbel. "Iron Revolutionaries and Salon Socialists: Bolsheviks and German Communists in the 1920s and 1930s." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 10.3 (2009 ...