occupation period
Time under rule
An occupation period is the span of time during which a territory is controlled by a foreign military or government, typically following conquest or war: Germany's occupation period lasted from 1945 to 1949.
The term also appears in archaeology to describe when a site was inhabited: The earliest occupation period dates to the Bronze Age.
- Geneva ConventionsWartime humanitarian treaties
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- war childrenMinors affected by conflict
- resistance movementOrganized opposition to occupation
underground networks · protectorate · trauma · reparations · cultural preservation · collaboration · reconciliation efforts · colonial rule · resilience · foreign troops · oral histories · puppet state · human rights violations · war crimes · assimilation · economic exploitation · forced labor · ceasefire agreements
- Colonial KoreaJapanese rule, colonial rule, independence movement, comfort women, August 1945
- Nordic HistoryViking Age, Viking raids, longships, runestones, Great Northern War
occupation periodindependence
Freedom from external control
sovereignty · self-rule · self-determination · autonomy · self-governance
occupation periodliberation
Release from constraint
evacuation · troop withdrawal · restoration · demilitarization · peacetime
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