Territorial changes of World War II

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Territorial changes of World War II comprise the extensive redrawing of national borders and transfer of territories in Europe, Asia, and beyond as a result of wartime conquests, occupations, annexations, and postwar peace settlements.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geopolitical process
historical event
endTime 1951
hasCause Allied military victories
Axis military expansion
postwar peace settlements
hasConsequence changes in sovereignty over colonies and mandates
emergence of new borders in Central and Eastern Europe
foundation for Cold War division of Europe
large-scale population transfers in Europe
hasMainRegion Europe
hasRegion Africa
Asia
Pacific
linked to: Pacific Ocean
includesEvent Bulgarian territorial gains in Thrace and Macedonia
German annexation of Austria
German annexation of the Sudetenland
German invasion of Poland
linked to: Invasion of Poland

German occupation of Czechoslovakia
German occupation of France
German occupation of Greece
German occupation of Norway
German occupation of Yugoslavia
German occupation of the Low Countries
Hungarian annexations in Slovakia and Transylvania
Italian annexations in the Balkans
Italian loss of colonies in Africa
Italian occupation of parts of France
Italian occupation of parts of Greece
Japanese occupation of Manchuria
Japanese occupation of Pacific islands
Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia
Japanese occupation of large parts of China
Paris Peace Treaties of 1947 territorial clauses
Poland's westward shift of borders
Second Vienna Award
Soviet annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Soviet annexation of southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands
Soviet annexation of the Baltic states
Soviet invasion of eastern Poland
Soviet westward shift of borders after 1945
Treaty of San Francisco territorial clauses
Winter War territorial changes between Finland and the Soviet Union
linked to: Winter War

creation of the United Nations Trust Territories in former League of Nations mandates and ex-Italian colonies
dismantling of the Japanese colonial empire
division of Germany into occupation zones
division of Korea along the 38th parallel
expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe
return of Alsace-Lorraine to France
transfer of South Tyrol issues to postwar settlement
partOf World War II
startTime 1937

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Second Vienna Award category Territorial changes of World War II
Kresy event World War II border changes
linked to: Territorial changes of World War II
Grünfier historicalEventContext World War II territorial changes
linked to: Territorial changes of World War II
Belarus–Poland hasHistoricalEvent World War II border changes
linked to: Territorial changes of World War II