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Resistance Activities Underground: In occupied countries, resistance activities underground activities (underground organizations, sabotage, guerrilla warfare, cooperation with the Allies and aid to Allied personnel, and the like) began when people recovered from the shock of defeat and occupation. Sometimes this was after a few weeks, as in Greece in 1941 and the Philippines in 1942; sometimes it was after many months had elapsed, as in France, or after an internal revolution, as in Italy in 1943. In Europe a remarkable degree of efficiency and cohesion was achieved in most countries, even where interresistance activities underground strife had been violent.
Charles de Gaulle and his aides, the term caught on and was soon applied to opposition activities, armed and unarmed, overt and covert, in countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa that were occupied by Germany and her allies. It was also applied to the groups within Germany opposing Adolf Hitler's regime. After the war, both the underground opposition in countries ruled by Fascist or Communist dictatorships, and the anti-colonial agitation in some overseas dependencies of Western powers, were known as resistance activities underground.
RESISTIVITY, re-zis-tiv'i-ti, or SP! CIFIC resistance activities underground, spe-sif'ik re-zis'ta: the resistance activities underground offered by a cubic centimeter oi substance to the passage of electricity, the curn being perpendicular to two parallel faces. Usua expressed in ohm-centimeters, it is reckoned w the metal at the freezing point of water. In 1 equation p = RA/l, p is the resistivity, R 1 resistance activities underground, A the cross-sectional area, and / t length. See also ELECTRICITY—3. Direct Elect, Current (resistance activities underground).
RESISTpRS, Electric. See ELECTRIC Ci CUITS—Circuit Elements (resistance activities underground, Inductan and Capacitance).
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