After WW2 #1

mid 1990s - mid 2000s

The _____ population decreased by about 27 million during the war.

1961

Lend-Lease came just before its reserves were exhausted. _____ had placed 55% of its total labour force into war production.

1953

By 1953, _____ production was twice its 1940 level, but the production of many consumer goods and foodstuffs was lower than it had been in the late 1920s.

1945

The abrupt withdrawal of ______n Lend-Lease support to Britain on 2 September 1945 dealt a severe blow to the plans of the new government. It was only with the completion of the Anglo-American loan by the United States to Great Britain on 15 July 1946 that some measure of economic stability was restored.

1945

New satellite states were set up by the Soviets in Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary,[13][page needed] Czechoslovakia,[14] Romania,[15][16] Albania,[17] and East Germany; the last of these was created from the Soviet zone of occupation in ______.

1945

In accordance with the _____________ agreements, the Soviet Union occupied and subsequently annexed the strategic island of Sakhalin.

1945

After the German surrender, the ________ ___ ______ was prohibited from providing aid such as food or visiting POW camps for Germans inside Germany. However, after making approaches to the Allies in the autumn of 1945 it was allowed to investigate the camps in the UK and French occupation zones of Germany, as well as to provide relief to the prisoners held there.

1944

At first this was undertaken in an extralegal manner by the _______ ________ (called the épuration sauvage, "wild purge").

1948

The _________ _________ was approved on 1 January 1948, resulting from the work of a Constituent Assembly formed by the representatives of all the anti-fascist forces that contributed to the defeat of Nazi and Fascist forces during the Italian Civil War.[29] Unlike in Germany and Japan, no war crimes tribunals were held against Italian military and political leaders, though the Italian resistance summarily executed some of them (such as Mussolini) at the end of the war; the Togliatti amnesty, taking its name from the Communist Party secretary at the time, pardoned all wartime common and political crimes in 1946.

1937

In the east, the ___________ reverted to Czechoslovakia following the European Advisory Commission's decision to delimit German territory to be the territory it held on 31 December 1937.