World map 1949
Israel's borders explained in maps
More than 75 years after Israel declared statehood, its borders are yet to be entirely settled. Wars, treaties and occupation mean the shape of the Jewish state has changed over time, and in parts is still undefined. Here is a series of maps explaining why.
The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World War One and the collapse of the empire, territory known as Palestine - the portion of which west of the River Jordan was also known as the land of Israel by Jews - was marked out and assigned to Britain to administer by the victorious allied powers (soon after endorsed by the League of Nations).
The terms of the mandate entrusted Britain with establishing in Palestine "a national home for the Jewish people", so long as doing so did not prejudice the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities there.
The rise of Palestinian Arab nationalism coupled with the rapid growth of Palestine's smaller Jewish population - especially after the advent of Nazism in the 1930s - saw an escalation in Arab-Jewish violence in Palestine.
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1949 Oliver Neerland Pictorial Wall Chart of the World after WWII
Title
[Oliver Neerlands Bildkarta]
1949 (dated) 49 x 76 in (124.46 x 193.04 cm)
Description
This is an utterly stunning 1949 pictorial color lithograph wall chart of the northern part of the western world by the Norwegian artist Oliver Neerland. The map covers all of North America, the North Atlantic, and Europe as far east as the Caspian Sea, as adequately as from the North Pole to the Amazon River and Liberia. Lavish illustration depicts historic figures, monuments, art and architecture, animals, airplanes, dirigibles, sailing ships of all types, aircraft characters, and more.
Post World War II Political Vision
Neerland uses intense imagery to suggest optimism to a world emerging from the gloomy days of World War II. His political message is noticeable. The United States is practically bathed in light, with verdant forests, cheerful cartoons, oil rigs, plentiful cattle, glowing cities, and noble founding fathers - the hope of the world. Soviet Russia, on the other hand is shrouded in darkness, while a demonic Stalin lectures to the Russian people.Most countries are represented by
1949 World Map
Wonderful Post WWII Era Revised Edition of Gregory’s Map of the World No 102 Available at Booksellers, Stationers and Newsagents…Distributed by Gregory’s Guides and Maps Production Clive Barrass – Copyright.
Below mount is a List of Countries With Area and Populations.
All Communist countries are coloured in green including East Germany which was occupied by Russia after WWII. We can date this Revised Edition to 1949 as East Germany officially became known as the German Democratic Republic on 7 October 1949. It was reunified with West Germany on 3 October 1990.
The Commonwealth of Nations was also formed in 1949. It was formed to maintain an association between countries that had once been part of the British colonies, but which were considered free and equal. On this map the Commonwealth is clearly delineated in the red/pink used traditionally by cartographers to highlight, what was the British Empire.
Clive Barrass (1906-1970) was born in Melbourne and moved to Sydney when he was young. He held the Australian diving championship from 1927 to 1930, and served with the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II. Clive Barrass was a co-founder
Top of the World – Published 1949 by National Geographic
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The Second World War ended in defeat for the Central Powers of Germany, Italy and Japan at the hands of the Allies. The concerted allied effort gave way to a growing conflict which culminated in the de facto division of the continent by the Iron Curtain. On the one side of the dividing line stood the East Block, a group of nations under Communist or socialist rule and dominated by the Soviet Union. These countries engaged in economic cooperation within the framework of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and formed a military alliance under the terms of the Warsaw Pact. They were opposed by a group of Western, "capitalist" industrial nations oriented primarily toward the United States, which joined the U.S. and Canada to form the NATO military alliance in 1949.Yugoslavia and Albania remained relatively independent of Soviet influence. As a socialist state, Yugoslavia stood apart from the rest of the East Block and pursued a more open policy toward the West. In addition to other factors, this was made possible by the fact that the country had not been liberated by the Soviet Army but rather by a partisan army under the command of Josip Tito, who