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This hostility was used in Nazi propaganda to allege an anti-colonial common interest that Nazi Germany held. [9] However this interest conflicted with interests of Nazi Germany's allies who also had colonies in the Arab world, namely Spain, Vichy France and Italy, and thus had to manage competing interests in the region.
Britain and France declared war on Germany and World War II in Europe began. [6] [7] Having established a "Rome-Berlin axis" with Benito Mussolini, and signing the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan – which was joined by Italy a year later in 1937 – Hitler felt able to take the offensive in foreign policy. On 12 March 1938, German troops ...
Iraq remained a co-belligerent state of the Axis Powers and ally of Nazi Germany until it fought against the United Kingdom during the Anglo-Iraqi War in May 1941, which resulted in the downfall of Ali's government, the reoccupation of Iraq by the British Empire and the restoration to power of the Regent of Iraq, Prince 'Abd al-Ilah, who was ...
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962. It includes the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 known as "West Germany").
The Versailles Treaty required Germany to pay reparations for the damage it did during the war. Germany tried to have the obligation revised downward, [68] but France used military force and occupied German industrial areas, making reparations the "chief battleground of the post-war era" and "the focus of the power struggle between France and ...
See Germany–Israel relations. Germany-Israel relations refers to the special relationship between Israel and Germany based on shared beliefs, Western values and a combination of historical perspectives. [134] Among the most important factors in their relations is Nazi Germany's role in the genocide of European Jews during the Holocaust. [135]
Free France: Germany: A [citation needed] Invasion: 1941-06-22: Germany Italy Soviet Union: W [6] A timed declaration of war was given by Germany at the time of the attack [13] Invasion: 1941-06-22/24 Romania Soviet Union: A On June 22, Romanian leader Ion Antonescu declared a "holy war" to reclaim ancestral lands and against Bolshevism in an ...
Tensions between Iran and Iraq over the disputed waterway and border escalate into a full-scale war in 1980; Saddam Hussein: Saddam Hussein: Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) Iraq MEK DRFLA Sudan Iran KDP PUK Badr Brigades: Stalemate. Both Iraq and Iran accepted UNSC Resolution 598; 105,000 375,000 ~100,000 Invasion of Kuwait (1990) Iraq Kuwait ...