* 1944 – Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.

By January 1944, Germany had diplomatic relations with only a handful of countries: Argentina, Ireland, Vichy France, the Salo Republic in Italy, Occupied Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Holy See, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, and the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and the Wang Jingwei regime in China.

Eleanor Roosevelt, in her My Day column for October 12, 1944, eulogized Willkie as a " man of courage ... outspoken opinions on race relations were among his great contributions to the thinking of the world ... Americans tend to forget the names of the men who lost their bid for the presidency.

War was never declared between Finland and the United States, though relations were severed between the two countries in 1944 as a result of the Ryti-Ribbentrop Agreement.

Diplomatic relations between Finland and the United States were maintained until June 1944, although the US ambassador had already been recalled earlier.

* Interest of the United States in the transfer of German populations from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and Austria, Foreign relations of the United States: diplomatic papers, Volume II ( 1945 ) pp. 1227 – 1327 ( Note: Page 1227 begins with a Czechoslovak document dated 23 November 1944, several months before Czechoslovakia was " liberated " by the Soviet Army.

* Pastoral ( 1944 ): Crew relations and love at an airbase in rural surroundings in wartime England.

When in 1944 he tried to take up relations with the Soviet Union, the latter refused roughly.

The Soviet Union's major counter-offensive began on 9 June 1944, in a situation when Finland's relations with Germany were strained due to Finland's earlier attempts to secure a separate peace.

After opening at the Los Angeles ballroom, The Hollywood Palladium on the Palladium's first night, Dorsey's relations with the ballroom soured and he opened a competing ballroom, The Casino Gardens circa 1944.

Category: 1944 in international relations

Category: 1944 in international relations

This move can perhaps be explained in the context of the general post-war improvement of Finno-Soviet relations, which also included such steps as the Soviets ' return of the Porkkala Naval Base leased territory to full Finnish sovereignty ( January 1956 ), and leasing Maly Vysotsky Island and the Soviet section of the Saimaa Canal ( conquered by the USSR in 1940 and 1944 ) back to Finland ( 1963 ).

) In addition, the original church crest ( adopted in 1944 with French added in 1980 ) was modified by changing the background colours of the four quadrants of the crest, as well as adding the Mohawk phrase " Akwe Nia ’ Tetewá: neren " (" All my relations ") to the crest's perimeter.

( See United States Department of State Foreign relations of the United States, Conference at Quebec, 1944 pp. 466 – 67 for the full text of the signed memoranda.

* United States Department of State Foreign relations of the United States, Conference at Quebec, 1944 Contains all documents related to the Second Quebec Conference, including Morgenthau's proposal, various critiques of it, and the approved proposal ( the latter located at p. 466 ).

Category: 1944 in international relations

" In 1883, Samuel Benjamin was appointed by the United States as the first official diplomatic envoy to Iran, however ; Ambassadorial relations were not established until 1944.

It is, however, important to note that in 1944 the Ukrainian SSR was permitted to establish bilateral relations with countries and maintain its own standing army.

Averell Harriman, U. S. ambassador in Moscow, once a " confirmed optimist " regarding U. S .- Soviet relations, was disillusioned by what he saw as the Soviet betrayal of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising as well as by violations of the February 1945 Yalta Agreement concerning Poland.

The discovery of the Katyn massacre in 1943 and callous conduct towards the Warsaw uprising in 1944 had cast shadows on relations ; nevertheless, all three victors still displayed solidarity at the Yalta conference in 1945.

In August 1944, Turkey severed diplomatic relations with Germany and by February 1945 had declared war on her, when Cicero's usefulness had already ended.

* Article 1 " As from August 24, 1944, at four a. m., Rumania has entirely discontinued military operations against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on all theaters of war, has withdrawn from the war against the United Nations, has broken off relations with Germany and her satellites, has entered the war and will wage war on the side of the Allied Powers against Germany and Hungary for the purpose of restoring Rumanian independence and sovereignty, for which purpose she provides not less than twelve infantry divisions with corps troops.

In it, he expresses concern that the move may harm relations with the United States during the preparations for Operation Overlord, the coming invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

* 1944 – World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of anywhere between 40, 000 and 100, 000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.

The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September – November 1944 on the island of Peleliu, present-day Palau.

* Dividing up Europe The 1944 division of Europe between the Soviet Union and Britain into zones of influence.

Civil wars through the 19th century to early 20th century tended to be short ; the average length of a civil war between 1900 and 1944 was one and half years.

From the ashes of the Second World War, seventeen Commonwealth Prime Ministers ' Conferences were held between 1944 and 1969.

* 1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.

The small cases of ethnic conflict in rural Guatemala between 1944 and 1952 started an intense response among the Ladino elite for increased vigilance in rural areas, the denial of rights recently won through the revolution to Indians, and the frequent use of the military and violence to suppress the most minor sign of simmering unrest.

Flakturm on the Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg-one of four enormous fortress-like bunkers which were made of reinforced concrete, built between 1942 and 1944 and equipped with anti-aircraft artillery for air defense

The Mk I Colossus was built between March and December 1943 by Tommy Flowers and his colleagues at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in London and then shipped to Bletchley Park in January 1944.

General Leclerc liberated Paris between 19 and 25 August 1944.

Imperial Conferences ( Colonial Conferences before 1911 ) were periodic gatherings of government leaders from the self-governing colonies and dominions of the British Empire between 1887 and 1937, before the establishment of regular Meetings of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in 1944.

Eric D. Weitz wrote, " By 1948, according to Nicolas Werth, the mortality rate of the 600, 000 people deported from the Caucasus between 1943 and 1944 had reached 25 %.

Zeleny ( 1944 ) confirmed these results and observed the corona charge transfer. In capacitors generally, the charge is not stored in the dielectric, but on the inside surfaces of the plates, as can be observed from capacitors that can function with a vacuum between their plates.

During World War II, the Vardar Banovina was occupied between 1941 and 1944 by Italian-ruled Albania, which annexed the Albanian-populated western regions, and pro-German Bulgaria, which occupied the remainder.

Mere Christianity is a theological book by C. S. Lewis, adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1942 and 1944, while Lewis was at Oxford during World War II.

* 1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U. S. Third and U. S. Seventh Fleets.

* 1945 – Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens becomes Prime Minister of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King Georgios II to Greece.

Eventually by May 1944 through collaboration between the OSS, British intelligence, Cairo and Washington the entire " Dogwood-chain " was found to be unreliable and dangerous.

Control passed to Japan in 1914 and during World War II the islands were taken by the United States in 1944, with the costly Battle of Peleliu between September 15 and November 25 with more than 2, 000 Americans and 10, 000 Japanese killed.

Peleliu was a scene of intense fighting between American and Japanese forces in 1944.

Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.

* 1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed.