THE WORLD IN 1945 Greenland Alaska (Denmark) (U.S.A.) NORWAY ICELAND CANADA SWEDEN FINLAND UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS UNITED KINGDOM DENMARK NEWFOUNDLAND (U.K.) IRELAND NETHERLANDS BYELORUSSIAN SSR GERMANYPOLAND BELGIUM CZECHOSLOVAKIA UKRAINIAN SSR MONGOLIA LUXEMBOURG SWITZERLAND AUSTRIAHUNGARY Saint Pierre ROMANIA and Miquelon (Fr.) FRANCE YUGOSLAVIA KOREA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BULGARIA JAPAN ITALY PORTUGAL ALBANIA SPAIN TURKEY CHINA GREECE Gibraltar (U.K.) Cyprus SYRIA SPANISH MOROCCO TUNISIA (U.K.) Bermuda (U.K.) (Fr.) Malta (U.K.) IRAN AFGHANISTAN LEBANON IRAQ MOROCCO SIKKIM (Fr.) Kuwait (U.K.) Ifni (Sp.) PALESTINE TRANS- (U.K.) BHUTAN (U.K.) SOUTH MOROCCO (Sp.) (U.K.) JORDAN NEPAL ALGERIA (Fr.) LIBYA (Fr./U.K.) (U.K.) MEXICO Bahrain Hawaii CUBA Bahamas (U.K.) SPANISH EGYPT (U.K.) (U.S.A.) Turks and Caicos Islands (U.K.) SAHARA TRUCIAL Qatar INDIA (U.K.) BURMA Hong Kong (U.K.) Cayman DOMINICAN REPUBLIC SAUDI STATES Macau (U.K.) (U.K.) LAOS Mariana Islands ARABIA (U.K.) Diu (Port.) (Port.) HAITI Puerto Rico (U.S) Leeward Islands (Fr.) Islands British Virgin Is. Cape Verde Damão BRITISH HONDURAS (U.K.) MUSCAT HONDURAS U.S. Virgin Is. St. Martin (Neth.) Islands (Port.) FRENCH ERITREA (U.K.) (Port.) VIET-NAM Saba (Neth.) ADEN AND OMAN Jamaica St. Eustatius (Neth.) Antigua EQUATORIAL THAILAND PHILIPPINES (U.S.A.) Guam TRUST TERRITORY OF GUATEMALA (U.K.) St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla Montserrat FRENCH WEST AFRICA YEMEN (U.K.) (U.K.) Goa Guadeloupe (Fr.) AFRICA FRENCH ESTABL. (U.S.A.) THE PACIFIC ISLANDS EL SALVADOR Aruba (Neth.) Dominica GAMBIA (U.K.) (Port.) IN INDIA CAMBODIA (Fr.) Curaçao (Neth.) Martinique (Fr.) ANGLO-EGYPTIAN (U.S.A.) Marshall NICARAGUA TOGOLAND (Fr.) CAMEROONS (U.K.) Socotra (U.K.) Bonaire (Neth.) St. Lucia PORT. GUINEA SUDAN FRENCH BRITISH Islands St. Vincent SOMALILAND COSTA RICA Grenada Barbados (U.K.) GOLD NIGERIA SOMALILAND VENEZUELA Trinidad and Tobago (U.K.) Windward Islands COAST (U.K.) CEYLON N. BORNEO SURINAM (Neth.) ETHIOPIA MALAY PANAMA (U.K.) SIERRA LEONE (U.K.) (U.K.) STATES (U.K.) Caroline CAMEROONS Brunei Christmas (U.K.) FRENCH GUIANA (U.K.) (U.K.) Islands Pacific Ocean LIBERIA (Fr.) (U.K.) COLOMBIA ITALIAN Maldive TOGOLAND Fernando Póo SARAWAK RUANDA-UGANDA SOMALILAND Islands (U.K.) Phoenix Islands (U.K.) (U.K.) RIO MUNI (Sp.) (U.K.) Nauru BRITISH GUIANA URUNDI (U.K.) KENYA Singapore TRUST TERRITORY São Tomé and Príncipe (Belg.) (Austr.) (U.K.) (U.K.) OF NEW GUINEA Gilbert ECUADOR (Port.) Seychelles (U.K.) BELGIAN (Austr.) and Elice Tokelau Islands (N.Z.) Cabinda CONGO Is. (U.K.) (Port.) TANGANYIKA Zanzibar (U.K.) NETHERLANDS INDIES Ascencion (U.K.) (U.K.) Western BRAZIL Samoa (N.Z.) Port. Timor Solomon Marquesas PERU ANGOLA Comoro Arch. (Fr.) Islands (U.K.) Christmas American (Port.) NORTH. NYASALAND PAPUA Wallis and Samoa RHODESIA (U.K.) St. Helena (U.K.) (U.K.) Cocos (Austr.) Futuna Islands FRENCH ESTABLISHMENTS IN OCEANA (U.K.) (Fr.) SOUTH. Indian Ocean (Keeling) BOLIVIA Is. (U.K.) RHODESIA MADAGASCAR Mauritius(U.K.) New Hebrides (U.K.) (Fr.) (Fr./U.K.) Réunion (Fr.) Society Arch. SOUTH BECHUANALAND MOZAMBIQUE Tuamotu Arch. PARAGUAY Niue (N.Z.) Atlantic Ocean WEST (U.K.) (Port.) FIJI AFRICA Islands Tonga CHILE New Caledonia Cook (S.A.) SWAZILAND (U.K.) (U.K.) (U.K.) Gambier Islands AUSTRALIA (Fr.) Islands (N.Z.) UNION OF BASUTOLAND (U.K.) Austral SOUTH Islands AFRICA Pitcairn (U.K.) ARGENTINA URUGUAY Tristan da Cunha (U.K.) Gough (U.K.) Falkland Islands (U.K.) (Malvinas) South Georgia (U.K.) NEW ZEALAND The founding Member States of the United Nations United Nations founding Members which celebrated their independence after the creation of the United Nations Territories administered under a League of Nations Mandate States with a special treaty relationship with a United Nations Member State The initials in parentheses refer to the administering Power or the Power involved in a special treaty relationship The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or any area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Territories which by 1949 were under the United Nations Trusteeship System Other dependent territories Non-Member States of the United Nations Map No. 4135 United Nations Department of Public Information December 1999 Cartographic Section.