<P> The Atlantic Charter promised self - determination to peoples deprived of it during the war . The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, argued for a weaker interpretation of the Charter to permit the Soviet Union to continue to control the Baltic states . In March 1944 the U.S. accepted Churchill's view that the Atlantic Charter did not apply to the Baltic states . </P> <P> With the return of Soviet troops at the end of the war, the Forest Brothers mounted a guerrilla war . This continued until the mid-1950s . </P> <P> As a result of the new borders drawn by the victorious nations, large populations suddenly found themselves in hostile territory . The Soviet Union took over areas formerly controlled by Germany, Finland, Poland, and Japan . Poland lost the Kresy region (about half of its pre-War territory) and received most of Germany east of the Oder - Neisse line, including the industrial regions of Silesia . The German state of the Saar was temporarily a protectorate of France, but later returned to German administration . As set forth at Potsdam, approximately 12 million people were expelled from Germany, including seven million from Germany proper, and three million from the Sudetenland . </P> <P> During the war, the United States government interned approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor . Canada interned approximately 22,000 Japanese Canadians, 14,000 of whom were born in Canada . After the war, some internees chose to return to Japan, while most remained in North America . </P>

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