TERRITORY: MORPHOLOGY The Nigerian territory has a rather simple structure; it corresponds to an ancient penepian which has its prominent parts in the central-northern section, where the crystalline, archaeozoic formations of the African base emerge over vast surfaces. These raised areas,...
Global divergence was shaped during the 19th century by the fundamental division of the world into colonial powers on the one hand and colonial, semi-colonial and dependent territories on the other. However, the global North-South conflict only emerged as a result...
After the East-West antagonism broke away in 1989, the North-South relationship changed in several ways. The gap between rich and poor countries has increased despite considerable growth rates in the Third World, whereby a distinction must be made between “less” and...
With the “Anschluss” of Austria in March 1938, the annexation of the Sudetenland in September 1938 (Sudeten crisis, Munich Agreement) and the smashing of the remaining Czechoslovak state in March 1939 (establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, independence of...
Second World War, global war, based on National Socialist Germany, in the years 1939–45. Prehistory The political order of Europe and East Asia created after the First World War, which was based on the economic and power-political preponderance of the victorious...
July 20, 1944: During the catastrophic defeat of Army Group Center and in anticipation of the inevitable collapse of the German front in Normandy, C. Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg carried out an assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 in the Wolfsschanze...
In between the Russian-German treks moved; 600,000 people fleeing the Red Army sought a deceptive security in eastern Germany. During their retreat, the German troops repeatedly used the “scorched earth” tactic. A Soviet attack on the Finnish front on the Karelian...
War aims and consolidation of the anti-Hitler coalition: Roosevelt and Churchill announced at the Casablanca conference on January 24, 1943, the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy and Japan as their war goal; In addition, it was decided to strengthen the Allied...
The Second World War was a global war, starting with National Socialist Germany in the years 1939–45. The Second World War (1939–45) came about through Adolf Hitler’s criminal expansion policy, which was aimed at eliminating the “dictate of Versailles” and gaining...
In response to the events in North Africa, Hitler ordered the construction of a German-Italian bridgehead in Tunisia (from November 9, 1942), the invasion of the previously unoccupied southern France (from November 11), and the occupation of the initially unoccupied port...
