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Their goal was building the blocks for a general history of the Austrian Netherlands, thus marking an important step toward the creation of a Belgian national history. [163] Since Belgium became an independent nation only in 1830, defining nationhood was a special issue for the historians of the late 19th century.
During the 1930s, Belgium was still recovering from the destruction of World War I.Economically, Belgium was experiencing high unemployment in the aftermath of the Great Depression of 1929, and by 1932 unemployment stood at 23.5 percent [3] though under the "New Deal-style" Plan de Man [4] this had been reduced to around 15 percent by 1937.
King William was not satisfied with the settlement drawn up in London and did not accept Belgium's claim of independence: it divided his kingdom and drastically affected his Treasury. On 2 August 1831 the Dutch army, headed by the Dutch princes, invaded Belgium, in what became known as the " Ten Days' Campaign " On 4 August the Dutch force took ...
Liberation of Belgium completed. 8 May: End of World War II in Europe. 1946: 17 February: Belgian general election, 1946: 12 April: Flemish nationalist leader August Borms executed by firing squad as a collaborator 1947: 8 September: Victor Horta dies. 1948: 1 January: Customs Convention between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg comes ...
Examples of mimeograph machines used by the Belgian resistance to produce illegal newspapers and publications. Among the first members of the Belgian resistance were former soldiers, and in particular officers, who, on their return from prisoner of war camps, wished to continue the fight against the Germans out of patriotism. [11]
The neutral powers were countries that remained neutral during World War II.Some of these countries had large colonies abroad or had great economic power. Spain had just been through its civil war, which ended on 1 April 1939 (five months prior to the invasion of Poland)—a war that involved several countries that subsequently participated in World War II.
As the independent state of Belgium consolidated after the Revolution, the issue of a consensus language in the country became an increasingly important political question. [11] At the start of the period, French was the dominant language, and was the only language that was approved for use in legal and government business anywhere in the country.
The Belgian Armed Forces was established after Belgium became independent in October 1830. Since then, the Belgian armed forces have fought in World War I, World War II, the Cold War (Korean War and the Belgian occupation of the Federal Republic of Germany), Kosovo, Rwanda, Somalia and Afghanistan.