All of them except Italy and Germany. The leader of Spain favored the fascists but he ran a Dictatorship that was not as cruel as the government in Germany and Italy.
The Soviet Union signed a neutrality pact with Germany in 1939. This divided much of Eastern Europe between the two countries.
MARK PITTAWAY has written: 'EASTERN EUROPE, 1939-2000'
There are actually three countries between this time period:Austria (1938)Czechoslovakia (1938)Poland (1939)
Peter Cowles has written: 'Homelands and heartlands' -- subject(s): Eastern Europe, Europe, Eastern, Germans, History, Migrations, Refugees, World War, 1939-1945
In 1937 he attacked Finland, and then in 1939 he assisted Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland. During the war her took most of eastern europe, and eventually Germany. then, the Soviet Invasion of Japan happened, adding Another Country to the list.
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There are many, but two obvious ones are England in 1754 - 1781 and Germany in 1870 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945
Under the terms of the Russo-German treaty in 1939, the Soviet Union was allowed to invade Poland from the east and to occupy and approximately half the country-Germans the other half. Later, the Soviet Union invaded and occupied all 3 Baltic countries: Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June1941, the countries of eastern Europe became a huge battefield. By the end of the war in May, 1945, most of central and eastern Europe were under the control of the Russian army. There were to be free elections after the war in these countries, but the Soviet Union rigged the elections and forced out pro-democratic parties and leaders. By 1947, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria and Albania were firmly in the control of the Soviet Union. World War II gave the Soviets a great opportunity to expand into the Balkans and eastern Europe and to have these puppet states become a huge buffer zone from future German threats!
Mainly in Eastern Europe, and especially in: * Poland * Lithuania * Latvia * Belarus * Ukraine (western parts) * Hungary Please also see the related question.
The Soviet Union had mobilized the largest army in Europe by the end of the war. The 3 great leaders of the Allies (Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, and Franklin Roosevelt) met before the end of the war at Yalta, in the Crimea. Roosevelt, who was very weak and near death, gave in to nearly all of Stalin's demands and promises for postwar Europe. The USSR would do the major portion of the fighting including taking the main cities of all of the countries of eastern and central Europe. Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that the USSR could keep the territories it had annexed in 1939 including much of Poland, and bits and pieces of many of the other countries of central Europe. At war's end, the Soviet army had hundreds of divisions of tanks and infantry occupying half of Europe. They were in the right place at the right time after the war.
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There were only TWO countries to talk to in Europe, in 1941...Britain and Russia (USSR). France was German territory.