Territorial changes of World War II

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geopolitical process historical event

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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Label	Occurrences
World War II border changes	2
Territorial changes of World War II canonical	1
World War II territorial changes	1

Statements (52)

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 Ocean ⓘ surface form: Pacific
includesEvent	Bulgarian territorial gains in Thrace and Macedonia ⓘ Anschluss of Austria ⓘ surface form: German annexation of Austria German annexation of the Hlučín Region ⓘ surface form: German annexation of the Sudetenland Invasion of Poland ⓘ surface form: German invasion of Poland German occupation of Czechoslovakia ⓘ German occupation of France ⓘ Axis occupation of Greece ⓘ surface form: German occupation of Greece German occupation of Norway ⓘ Axis-occupied Yugoslavia ⓘ surface form: 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 invasion of France ⓘ surface form: Italian occupation of parts of France Axis occupation of Greece ⓘ surface form: 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 occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina ⓘ surface form: Soviet annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina Soviet occupation of southern Sakhalin ⓘ surface form: Soviet annexation of southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands Soviet occupation of the Baltic states ⓘ surface form: Soviet annexation of the Baltic states Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland ⓘ surface form: Soviet invasion of eastern Poland Soviet westward shift of borders after 1945 ⓘ Treaty of San Francisco ⓘ surface form: Treaty of San Francisco territorial clauses Winter War ⓘ surface form: Winter War territorial changes between Finland and the Soviet Union 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 ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Second Vienna Award → category → Territorial changes of World War II ⓘ

Kresy → event → Territorial changes of World War II ⓘ

this entity surface form: World War II border changes

Grünfier → historicalEventContext → Territorial changes of World War II ⓘ

this entity surface form: World War II territorial changes

Belarus–Poland → hasHistoricalEvent → Territorial changes of World War II ⓘ

this entity surface form: World War II border changes