Yhdysvaltain armeija valtasi saaren toisen maailmansodan lopussa Okinawan taistelussa, joka kesti maaliskuusta kesäkuuhun 1945.
It seems to me extraordinary that this continent, which exported the idea of representative government and parliamentary democracy, which carried the seeds of democracy to far continents where they found fertile soil, should now have taken the axe to the ancestral tree here in Europe. All of us are diminished by that process.ParaCrawl Corpus ParaCrawl Corpus