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Although the blockade was initially ineffective due to the use of neutral ports in the Soviet Union and Francoist Spain, it grew more severe when the Soviet Union and the United States entered the war in 1941 and when the Germans lost control of their occupied territories in France and Eastern Europe in 1944. 1940–1945 United Kingdom
Blockades of World War I (1 C, 4 P) Blockades of World War II ... Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania; List of foreign ships wrecked or lost in the Spanish Civil War;
Pages in category "Blockades of World War I" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Blockade of the Eastern Mediterranean; G. Blockade of Germany (1914–1919)
A list of Gulag penal labor camps in the USSR was created in Poland from the personal accounts of labor camp detainees of Polish citizenship. It was compiled by the government of Poland for the purpose of regulation and future financial compensation for World War II victims, and published in a decree of the Council of Ministers of Poland. [2]
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
The specific problem is: Cleanup entries not meeting article criteria, "list of wars involving the Soviet Union", this is not a list of military engagements, but a list of wars the Soviet Union was involved in. Please help improve this article if you can. (December 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
The Allies or the Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).
For the Précis of History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, published in 1938, "the imperialist war was provoked by the unequal development of the capitalist countries, the disruption of the balance between the main powers, and the need to proceed with a new division of the world by means of war": those who, like the Mensheviks and ...