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Also Known As	Četnic
Date	c. April 1941
Related People	Dragoljub Mihailović

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EDES Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army Partisan New People’s Army Moro National Liberation Front Renamo Geuzen EAM-ELAS Revolutionary United Front Viet Cong

Germany invades Poland, September 1, 1939, using 45 German divisions and aerial attack. By September 20, only Warsaw held out, but final surrender came on September 29.

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