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	World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Italian declaration of war in June 1940, challenging the British supremacy of the Mediterranean, hinged on Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria.
		British, Indian and Australian forces counter-attacked in Operation Compass, but this offensive stopped in 1941 when much of the Australian and New Zealand forces were transferred to Greece to defend it from German attack.
		Japan soon invaded the Philippines and the British colonies of Hong Kong, Malaya, Borneo, and Burma, with the intention of seizing the oilfields of the Dutch East Indies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WWII (8576 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The conflict began by most Western accounts on September 1, 1939 with the German invasion of Poland (the Pacific war is taken to have started on July 7, 1937 with the Japanese attack on China) and lasted until the summer of 1945, involving many of the world's countries.
		British, Indian and Australian forces counter-attacked (see Operation Compass), but this offensive stopped in 1941 when much of the Commonwealth forces were transferred to Greece to defend it from German attack.
		Italian troops invaded and captured British Somaliland in August 1940.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /World_War_II (9827 words)

	The Ultimate World War II Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		On which date the war began is also debated, cited as either the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, the Japanese invasion of China on 7 July 1937 (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
		Germany was defeated and Operation Sealion, the proposed invasion of the British Isles, was abandoned.
		Japanese forces simultaneously invaded the British possessions of Malaya and Borneo and the American occupied Philippines, with the intention of seizing the oilfields of the Dutch East Indies.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/World_War_II (6401 words)

	World War II - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		It is estimated to have cost more money and resources than all other wars combined: about 1 trillion US Dollars in 1945 (roughly 10.5 trillion in 2005), not including subsequent reconstruction [1].
		Other candidates for the starting date of the war include the entry of Hitler's armies to Prague in March 1939, the Japanese invasion of China on 7 July1937 (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria, or the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact..
		In accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the east on 17 September.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/w/o/r/World_War_II_d045.html (9907 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the ninth and tenth centuries, however, the opposition of the Berbers and the too tardy resistance of the Byzantines, assisted by the Normans, but chiefly the mutual strife of the Mussulman emirs, arrested its advance; there were still bishops at Carthage, Hippo, and Constantine in the eleventh century.
		The second period (1050-1750) is connected with the invasion of the Himyarite (Arabian) Bedouins, sent by El Mestune, Caliph of Cairo, to chastise the Magreb, or country stretching from Tripoli to Morocco.
		It was thus that Islam gained the shores of the Red Sea, Somaliland, the Zanzibar coast as far as Kiloa, and the islands as far as the Comoto Islands and Madagascar.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01181a.htm (9153 words)

	Everything about State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The kingdoms of Western Europe were besieged by invaders on the frontiers - first, the Muslim invasions from the south, then a series of new migrations from the east and finally the Viking invasions from the north.
		An example in practice was the collapse of central government in Somalia in the early 1990s: the Montevideo convention would imply that the state of Somalia no longer existed, and the subsequently declared republic of Somaliland (comprising part of the so-called "former" Somalia) may meet the criteria for statehood.
		Under British rule, Hong Kong was often referred to as a territory, rather than a colony from about the 1960s onwards.
	wikimiki.org /en/state (11713 words)

	Ethiopia
		Ancient Ethiopia reached its peak in the 5th century, then was isolated by the rise of Islam and weakened by feudal wars.
		Ethiopia was annexed to Eritrea, then an Italian colony, and to Italian Somaliland, forming Italian East Africa.
		In 1941, British troops routed the Italians, and Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107505.html (1148 words)

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