The World At War: Occupation

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occupation

In law, the physical possession and control of land. In the UK, under the Land Registration Act 1925, the rights of a person in actual occupation may be an overriding interest binding a purchaser of registered land, unless the rights are disclosed on inquiry.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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Warren G. Harding, the American President, orders U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany since the end of the First World War to return home.

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The United States Congress votes to authorise the use of military force against Iraq to end its occupation of Kuwait.
15 March 1939
German forces complete their occupation of Czechoslovakia.
19 March 1949
In a precursor to the establishment of a separate Soviet-dominated East Germany, The People's Council of the Soviet Zone of Occupation approve a new constitution.
13 April 1919
During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea – the government in exile – is formed.
2 May 1808
During the Peninsular War, a popular uprising against the French occupation of Spain begins in Madrid.
5 May 1955
The formation of West Germany free from Allied occupation. 
10 May 1857
Indians conscripted into the British Army, known as Sepoys, revolt against the British occupation of India. 
15 May 1988
The first of an estimated 120,000 Soviet troops begin leaving Afghanistan after eight years of occupation.
18 June 1940
The Second World War: Free France leader, Charles de Gaulle, broadcasts his Appeal of 18 June from London, calling for French resistance to the German occupation.
26 July 1941
The Second World War: President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.
1 August 1944
The Second World War: Start of the Warsaw uprising in Poland against the German occupation forces.
8 September 1945
U.S. troops land in Korea to begin their post-war occupation of the southern part of the nation.
12 September 1990
Representatives from the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union sign an agreement giving up all occupation rights in Germany.
 

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