* Eastern Europe: This alliance was led by the Soviet Union and included countries such as East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.
By October 1940, Axis 1 forces (Germany, Italy, Japan) had occupied Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark and Poland. Italy, from the beginning of April 1939, had occupied Albania, installing a pro-Italian government in Tirana under Prime Minister Shefqet or Shefqet Bey Verlaci (Shefqet bej
The Dutch East India Company ( Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC), created in 1602 in the Netherlands, was one of the first large multinational corporations -first place would be disputed with the British East India Company- whose objective was the control of trade with Asia. That was its fou
Maria Rosa de Madariaga Álvarez-Prida , exceptional historian born on February 9, 1937, in a Madrid in the midst of war, whose childhood and youth were spent while Spain still maintained her protectorate in Morocco, just the subject that would end up monopolizing her historical work. She trained at
Battle of the Forts was the name given to the four-day defensive struggle of the defenders of the so-called Metaxa Line against the German forces which at 0515 on April 6, 1941 attacked Greece without warning. Germany, having already decided to invade the USSR, was forced, on the occasion of the fin