1939 War

Invasion and occupation

Name: Invasion and occupation
Start: 1939

Invaded by Germany then the USSR, Poland loses nearly a fifth of its population.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1939 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year Winter War Finland
2 years later Occupation and destruction Belarus
7 years earlier Holodomor Ukraine
10 years later Bonn Basic Law Germany
10 years earlier Lateran Accords Vatican City
11 years later Schuman Declaration
13 years later Seat of the High Authority Luxembourg
16 years earlier Founding of the Republic Türkiye

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

World wars 1914 – 1945 Thirty years that undo Europe and its place in the world.

Countries involved

Poland

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What was written of it

The powers of Europe are so bound to one another that they form an indissoluble system, in which none can be shaken without shaking the rest. All trade enough with one another to be unable to do without one another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1761

Abstract of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s Project for Perpetual Peace

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