Peoples & MigrationThe 1940s

Peoples & Migration in the 1940s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1940s — 6 of them, drawn from 6 nations, running from 1944 to 1947. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
6
Nations
6
Earliest
1944
Latest
1947
Europe
3
Asia
2
Oceania
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Europe

    San Marino

    Refuge for 100,000 and liberation

    Neutral San Marino, with a population under 15,000, sheltered more than 100,000 wartime refugees, including Jews; after fighting crossed its soil in September 1944 it was liberated and its neutrality restored.

    Era: The Arengo, Fascism and the World Wars

    Sources: World wars and fascism in San Marino, 1922-1945 · SanMarinoSite, History of San Marino · Visit San Marino (official tourism site)

  2. Oceania

    Australia

    Post-war mass immigration

    A large post-war immigration programme brought millions of migrants, first from Europe and later from Asia and beyond, transforming Australia into a far more diverse society.

    Era: The world wars, immigration, and the twentieth century

    Sources: The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 · National Archives of Australia, Australia (country) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  3. Europe

    Czechia

    Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans

    Under the Benes decrees and Allied agreement at Potsdam, Czechoslovakia stripped the citizenship and property of its Germans and expelled some three million Sudeten Germans, the largest forced migration in the history of the Czech lands.

    Era: Expulsion, Communism, the Velvet Revolution and the Modern Republic

    Sources: Edvard Benes · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Sudetenland · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Potsdam Conference · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  4. Europe

    Finland

    Paris Peace Treaty and the Karelian evacuees

    The 1947 Paris Peace Treaty confirmed the cession of Karelia and Petsamo and reparations of 300 million dollars; some 400,000 Karelian evacuees were resettled within Finland's new borders.

    Era: The Winter War, the Continuation War and the Loss of Karelia

    Sources: Draft Peace Treaty with Finland (Paris Peace Treaty terms) · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian (FRUS), Finland during World War II · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  5. Asia

    India

    Partition violence and mass migration

    Up to 12–20 million people are uprooted and an estimated one to two million die in massacres and forced migration along the new India–Pakistan border.

    Era: Independence, Partition and the Modern Republic

    Sources: Partition of India · Wikipedia

  6. Asia

    Pakistan

    Partition migration and violence

    The Radcliffe Line divides Punjab and Bengal, and millions are uprooted across the new borders amid massacres and mass migration, with deaths estimated from the hundreds of thousands into the millions.

    Era: Partition and Independence

    Sources: Radcliffe Line · Encyclopædia Britannica, Indian Independence Act · Encyclopædia Britannica