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Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
From the very beginning of World War II, Spain favoured the Axis Powers. Apart from ideology, Spain had a debt to Germany of $212 million for supplies of matériel during the Civil War. Indeed, in June 1940, after the Fall of France , the Spanish Ambassador to Berlin had presented a memorandum in which Franco declared he was "ready under ...
[2] József Aczél Hungary (HUN) Football: 1924 Summer Olympics [3] Stefan Adamczak Poland (POL) Athletics: 1924 Summer Olympics [4] Herbert Adamski Germany (GER) Rowing: 1936 Summer Olympics: Gold [5] Estella Agsteribbe Netherlands (NED) Gymnastics: 1928 Summer Olympics [6] Iwao Aizawa Japan (JPN) Athletics: 1928 Summer Olympics [7] Abdurahman Ali
Born: Gisbert Hasenjaeger, German mathematician, known for his research into first-order logic, member of the Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht during World War II and the Enigma program, in Hildesheim, Germany (d. 2006) Died: Caroline Still Anderson, American physician, first African-American woman to practice medicine (b ...
Died: Endre Ady, Hungarian poet, noted editor and writer for the Hungarian literary journal Nyugat (b. 1877); Nikolai Ivanov, Russian army officer, noted commander of the artillery units during the Battle of Galicia in World War I, recipient of the Order of St. George, Order of Saint Vladimir, Order of Saint Stanislaus, and Order of Saint Anna ...
A 2009 study in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses based on data from fourteen European countries estimated a total of 2.64 million excess deaths in Europe attributable to the Spanish flu during the major 1918–1919 phase of the pandemic, in line with the three prior studies from 1991, 2002, and 2006 that calculated a European death toll ...
Alfonso XIII [a] (Spanish: Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; French: Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African for his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was ...
About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.