List of Rump States - World War II

World War II

• Czechoslovakia from the German annexation of the Sudetenland in October 1938 and the loss of additional territory in southern Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia to Hungary in November to its liquidation the following March. See also Munich Agreement and First Vienna Award.
• China during the Japanese occupation of most of its eastern lands (including the majority of the 1939 population.)
• The Slovak Republic, from 1939 until late 1944 (Hungary controlled one-third of Slovakia's area.)
• Vichy France after the French surrender in June 1940 during World War II.
• Romania from July 1940 to June 1941, during the loss of part of Transylvania to Hungary and of Bessarabia and Bukovina to the USSR. (map) See also Second Vienna Award.
• Serbia after the temporary dissolution of Yugoslavia during World War II.
• Soviet Union after German occupation in 1941 of most of its European land where as much as a third of the population lived, until 1944.
• Greece under Axis occupation during World War II.
• Hungary from late 1944, after the seizure of territory by the USSR and Romania, and Hitler's replacement and house arrest of Hungarian leader Miklós Horthy.
• Germany after annexation of all eastern territories, the division of Germany and loss of Alsace-Lorraine and other ethnic German regions gained after 1939.
• The Nazi-occupied Italian Social Republic was carved out of the remnants of Italy, which was largely occupied by the Allies toward the end of the war after 1944.