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Sweden
The Kingdom of Sweden is a country located in Northern Europe. It is the 55th biggest country in the world at 173,745 sq mi and was ranked as the world’s second most competitive country in 2010.
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What was the currency of Sweden before the Euro?
The currency of Sweden is Krona (meaning crown). They are not part of the EMU (European Monetary Union) and thus are still not using the Euro. They are a member of the European Union, but only 17 of the 27 countries in the European Union use the euro. The others use their own currency.
In Sweden the capital is Stockholm
In Norway the capital is Oslo
In Denmark it is Copenhagen
PS: from 1536 to 1814 Copenhagen was the joint capital of Denmark and Norway.
What is the distance from Sweden to Reykjavik?
Distance:
The distance between Honolulu, Hawaii and Stockholm, Sweden is 6867 miles (11052 km). Flight:
Honolulu, HI (HNL) to Stockholm (STO)
Flight Duration * 21 hours 45 mins * Via Newark Liberty International Apt, New York (EWR)
How many gold medals have Sweden won in the Olympics?
7 ... 3 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze).
Gold: Marcus Hellner in men's 15/15 km pursuit, men's team in 4x10 km relay, Charlotte Kalla in women's 10 km.
Silver: Anna Haag in women's 7.5/7.5 km pursuit, women's team in team sprint.
Bronze: Johan Olsson in men's 50 km and 15/15 km pursuit.
What are the top 3 religions in Sweden?
Since as early as 1593, Lutheranism (Church of Sweden) has been the prevailing religion of Sweden. Today, roughly seventy percent of the nation claims to be Lutheran. The numbers are reducing by small percentage points each year due to a change in law where all births were registered as Lutheran if one of the parents was Lutheran.
In 1996 the law changed to respect individual rights and today a child is registered as Lutheran once Christened.
The next highest percentage point are members of several 'Free Churches,' those claiming to be non-denominational and occasionally Methodist.
Closely following are Eastern Orthodox at roughly 100,00 members and Roman Catholics at slightly lower numbers.
There is a small number of Anglicans, Muslims, and Jews comprising the diversity of Swedish culture.
In 2000, ceased having a 'state church' (similar to England having the Church of England), and separated the Church of Sweden from any State influence or support. This was the final step in respect to Sweden's law on Freedom of Religion act. This is reflective of Sweden's diversity and willingness to embrace a multiculturalist society.
What is the name of the soccer team in Sweden?
There are thousands of Soccer teams in Sweden..
The Swedish soccer league is call Allsvenskan. The top team in this league is Mälmo ff, they are also playing in champions league.
I haven't researched... But I believe that Sweden feels that it doesn't have to be anything but neutral. It had no reason to pick a side. If it was forced, it would probably pick the Allies. For sure. However, Sweden has earned on being neutral and it is good that someone avoids war.
No, Poland and Sweden do not share a border.
The neighboring countries are Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania and the Russian province of Kaliningrad Oblast to the northeast. To the north, Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea.
How was Sweden affected by World War 2?
While Sweden remained neutral throughout World War II, they did allow emergency landings by both Allied and Axis aircraft, mostly bombers that were too damaged and too distant from their home base to make it back safely. Especially for English and American airmen, sometimes the choice was ditch in the English Channel which was far too cold and they would risk drowning, or head for Sweden. However, because of Sweden's neutrality, many of the airmen were interned in camps (they weren't prisoners of war, instead, they were treated as guests who were not permitted to leave) until exchanges could be arranged (i.e., one American airman and one German airman).
Approximately 1200 American airmen would ultimately be interned in Sweden. But as the number of American airmen "overtook" any reasonable number of possible "exchanges," modified American bombers would make night time "courier" trips to Ireland and Scotland.
For a far more complete history of Swedish involvement in World War II and the American airmen interned there, I would suggest "'Making for Sweden . . . ' Part 2 - The USAAF 1943 to 1945" by Bo Widfeldt and Rolph Wegmann. ISBN: 1-871187-37-0
What was known as New Sweden in the US?
New Sweden was the name of the small area in North America near the mouth of the
Shuylkill river, which mouths into the river Delaware. It was held by the settlers from 1638 to 1655. Around 600 people lived there during that time.
The largest settlement in New Sweden was Fort Christina, today called Wilmington.
Why did the Nazis make no attempt to invade Spain Portugal Sweden and Switzerland?
The Spanish government was a fellow Fascist regime which had come to power thanks to German aid during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. Franco decided not to come into the war on Germany's side but remained a friendly neutral. Portugal was of no strategic importance and besides, Spain lay between it and German controlled territory. The Swedes were nordics against whom Hitler had no racial emnity, control of their territory was not strategicaly important (unlike Norway) and, as a neutral, they provided a buffer between German and Soviet forces in Scandinavia. The Swiss were also a Germanic people whose neutrality made it difficult for an allied thrust up the Italian peninsula to reach Germany, beside which they could be expected to fight very hard and their mojntainous territory would be difficult indeed to attack. Michael Montagne
AnswerThey didn't make any attempts to invade Sweden, but they had planned to do so.
The reason why they didn't attack is simple, they needed their troops elsewhere.
Spain had just gone through a bloody Civil War that lasted three years. The Spanish army was combat experienced, Spain was a military state still, and Franco had re-enforced the Spanish French border. The Pyrenees mountains also acted as a natural defense. Franco also supplied Hitler with Iron and Steel and to some extent troops. Mainly some 40,000 volunteers know as the Spanish Blue Division, who fought on the Eastern front up until 1942.
But why didn't the Germans invade Sweden?
During the invasion of Scandinavia, Sweden remained neutral; but, because much of their income was generated by exporting iron, they continued to sell it to Nazi Germany. Sweden would not help Finland fight off the Soviet attack, but 8,000 Swedes volunteered for the Finnish army, to bolster the Swedish defense lines. The meager Swedish army nearly doubled overnight, and--by war's end--tripled from that. Civilians built shelters; scanned the skies for enemy aircraft; donated time and money, and made military vehicles and supplies.
Northern Europe, meaning Denmark and Norway, were invaded for important strategic reasons, one of which was that Scandinavia supplied iron ore. This raw material was critical for the success of any modern war effort. The allies (Churchill) had as an objective to stop the flow of iron ore to Germany from everywhere possible, including Scandinavia, as well as to get as many European nations involved in the war one way or the other, and on their side, as possible. England then breached Norwegian neutrality by mining some of its waterways and when Germany reacted, Britain launched its own attempted occupation of Norway, which led to the actual German invasion.
Germany invaded through Denmark whilst England entered Norway from the north. Germany won this theatre, the British had to evacuate, and thereby Germany secured its flow of iron ore as well as cut off the Baltic Sea from the British navy, securing shipping routes from Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark and Sweden, Finland actually is not officially considered part of Scandinavia) to various European ports. Thus Germany had achieved its objective by holding only Norway and Denmark. If a world atlas is studied it can be seen that holding Sweden and Finland as well was not necessary.
Some other perspectives:
- Germany also needed a neutral country as a conduit for goods and foreign currency, and a stage for negotiations and an outlet to the world. Some goods and materials were purchased by neutral 3rd countries from Allied nations (the US for example) and sold to the Germans via Sweden.
- Only nations that posed a threat to Germany, one way or the other, were attacked by the Germans.
- The only strategically valuable things were steel and passage to Norway which were located more strategically and Germany got that without having to invade Sweden.
- Sweden was also afraid of being invaded by the Soviet Union through Finland (a German ally at the time) due to the Finnish winter war. If Sweden was invaded by Germany this would provide an excuse for the Soviet Union to invade Sweden in turn. It was believed in Sweden that the Soviet Union wanted to incorporate Sweden and Finland and not leave after the war was over and that the allies would stand by and let this happen because of the Soviet Union's strategic importance in the war against Japan. So Sweden was desperate to remain neutral and stay out of war and bowed down to the German demands and by doing that there was no reason for Germany to waste troops by invading.
Why wasn't Sweden occupied by the Nazis?
it wouldn't help in his campaign, mountains and chocolate, not he best use of his troops.
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Germany primarily wanted two things from Sweden : Iron ore and Train transit to Finland. As it turned out they could get both by the mere threat of invasion, no invasion was needed.
How did world war 2 affect Sweden?
Sweden remained neutral during World War II despite its close location to Germany and other involved countries. Franco British allies granted support in the war on the condition that they could pass through neutral Norway and Sweden instead of taking the road through Soviet occupied Russia. In 1943, Sweden housed all of Denmark's Jews and took in Jews from Norway and Finland. It is reported that Sweden aided and helped more Jews than any other country during the war.
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When did National Socialist Workers' Party - Sweden - end?
Socialist Workers' Party of Finland ended in 1923.
Why did Germany allow Sweden to remain neutral and not occupy it as it did it Denmark?
Because they had been helping Germany: helped with the designs of panzers, had trained some of their officers, supplied them with raw materials.
AnswerNorway had a strategic importance to Germany so they used Denmark as a staging ground for the invasion of Norway, Sweden wasnt of any importance to Germany if it was Sweden would have been invaded. Answer"Because they had been helping Germany: helped with the designs of panzers, had trained some of their officers, supplied them with raw materials."We did sell them iron ore, but i doubt we did any of the other stuff you mentioned, here are some reasons.
Swedens own army during world war II was poorly trained and equiped(so Germany would be have been able to train their own troops better then Sweden could.
and when it comes to tanks the swedish tanks where nothing compared to the German ones, our best tank would be classed as a medium tank.
Wehn ti comes to why Germany didnt attack Sweden the answer is simple, they had planned to do so several times during world war II but they needed troops on other fronts so if Germany would have beaten the soviets Sweden could have been the next target.
What did Russia gain as a result of Peter the Great's war against Sweden?
peter the great gained the baltic sea
easy, winter sports and sweedish meetballs, the Nobel prize, IKEA, Astrid Lindgren. and lots of other things
The midnight sun, the snowbound winters, meatballs, herring, Vikings and Volvos, ABBA and the Hives
Why did Sweden remainneutralduring world war 2?
Firstly, although Sweden had a strict policy of "NEUTRALITY" she wasn't. She Cooperated with Germany in several different ways.
1. Sweden refused England and France to transport troops through Sweden to help Finland, but allowed Hitler to transport troops through Sweden to attack Norway.
2. Germany was dependent on Sweden for her iron ore, which was being used to make guns etc.
3. Despite their agreement with the Allies, Sweden export ball bearing steal and ball bearing machines to the Germans.
4. From http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/dailynews/neutrals1031.html
"Sweden -- One of Nazi Germany's largest trading partners. Swedish bankers apparently took billions of dollars in gold from the Nazis w/o inquiring about its origins. Supplied critically needed iron ore and ball bearings. Swedish jewelry dealers bought diamonds looted by Nazis in Belgium."
From these four pints I think you could figure out the advantages Sweden's "Neutrality" policy was for Hitler. I guess the question probably should read what advantages did Sweden have with their neutrality policy
The reason Hitler wanted Sweden to remain free is because he needed a safe,but neutrel place to stash all of the money and artifacts that he stole
The question is more complex than it would appear at first glance. I would, however, like to start off by correcting a couple of mistakes in the previous answer:
Sweden did not refuse England and France to transport troops through her territory to help Finland. Sweden most likely would have refused such a permission, had the question been asked. But the plan, initiated by Winston Churchill, was to land in northern Norway, advance into Sweden and destroy the mines producing iron ore (which was of vital interest to Germany) and continue into Finland and engage the Soviets. Luckily, this never came to be since the Germans beat the allies to it in May 9th 1940. And the expedition force turned into a rescue party which instead engaged the Germans in Norway. Had the original plan succeeded, there's no telling what implications it would have had on the outcome of the war.
Neither did Sweden allow free passage to German troops attacking Norway, although this is a common misconception. Germany did request such passage, which was denied. In a later stage of the war (late 1941), passage of German troops through Sweden was allowed. These were troops destined for the Finnish/Soviet front-line (and the decision was probably, at least in part, the result of the misguided ambition to help Finland in this manner). However questionable in regard to neutral standards, quite a different thing.
To put it simply. At the time (1940) Germany was on the brink of being military overstretched. The attack on Scandinavia was a gamble, which very well could have ended in disaster for Germany (and almost did). Attacking Sweden as well, would have posed Germany with very high risk and very few, or no advantages. As noted earlier, trade (ball bearings, iron ore and so forth) worked satisfactory from Germanys standpoint, and an invasion would have accomplished nothing but an interruption of the flow of those items. Furthermore, Norway and Denmark were relatively easy targets compared to Sweden, which would have required an even greater strain on Germany's militart resources at this critical point. To this should be added that the geographical position of Sweden was of little consequence to Germany.
Once again, I'd like to stress that the question would require a far more detailed answer than the above.
What resource helped make Ghana wealthy?
Short Answer:
Ghana became wealthy becuase that city was inbetween salt mines, and gold mines. The king decided to set up a tax for the people who go there for trade ( which was a lot of people) everyone entering that city was to pay that fine so he got rich off the money he taxed the people.
