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States and territories established in 1945

  • North VietnamOn the 2nd of September 1945, Hồ Chí Minh stood before a crowd in Ba Dinh Square and declared independence. He proclaimed the creation of the Democratic…
  • Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaOn the 29th of November 1943, the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia met in Partisan-liberated Jajce to declare Democratic…
  • Allied-occupied GermanyOn the 5th of June 1945, the Berlin Declaration dissolved the German government entirely. No sovereign authority remained to negotiate with the Allies.
  • Azerbaijan People's GovernmentBritish and Soviet troops jointly occupied Iran in August 1941 to supply war material. Soviet forces entered Iranian territory from the Armenian SSR and the…
  • Soviet occupation zone in GermanyOn the 2nd of August 1945, the Soviet Union established control over a specific middle portion of Germany through the Potsdam Agreement.
  • Allied-occupied AustriaOn the 29th of March 1945, Soviet commander Fyodor Tolbukhin's troops crossed the former Austrian border at Klostermarienberg in Burgenland.
  • IndonesiaThe name Indonesia derives from the Greek words indos and nesos, meaning Indian islands. This term dates back to 1850 when English ethnologist George Windsor…
  • CzechoslovakiaOn the 28th of October 1918, a crowd gathered on Prague's Wenceslas Square to hear the declaration of independence. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk returned from…