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War Plan Gray was a plan for the United States to invade the Azores Islands in 1940–41. Gray is one of the many colour-coded war plans created in the early 20th century. [54] On 22 May 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt directed the U.S. Army and Navy to draft an official plan to occupy the Portuguese Azores.
Portugal was officially neutral during World War II and the period of the Holocaust in German-occupied Europe.The country had been ruled by an authoritarian political regime led by António de Oliveira Salazar but had not been significantly influenced by racial antisemitism and was considered more sympathetic to the Allies than was neighbouring Francoist Spain.
Operation Alacrity was the code name for a possible Allied seizure of Azores during World War II. It never took place because Portugal agreed to an Allied request for use of air bases. The islands were of enormous strategic value in the defeat of the German U-boats. Portugal, too weak to defend the Azores, or its large colonial empire, or even ...
Pages in category "Battles and operations of World War II involving Portugal" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Sancho VII of Navarre (1196-1197) Ferdinand II of León (1196-1197) The Spanish Christian–Muslim War of 1172–1212[note 1] was fought between the Spanish Christian kingdoms of Castile, Aragon, Navarre and Portugal and the Almohad Caliphate during the Reconquista. It began when the Almohad caliph Yusuf I attacked Castile from Cuenca in 1172 ...
The Estado Novo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨʃˈta.ðu ˈno.vu], lit. ' New State ') was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from the Ditadura Nacional ("National Dictatorship") formed after the coup d'état of 28 May 1926 against the unstable First Republic.
The GP Nacional 2 de Portugal (Portuguese: Grande Prémio de Portugal Nacional 2) is a road bicycle racing stage race held along the longest road of Portugal, the N2, which started in July 2018. It is promoted by GlobalSport and is rated as a 2.2 event as part of the UCI Europe Tour . The idea for the race arose as a legacy event following the ...
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