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The Rape of Nanjing
Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Nanjing and embarked on a campaign of murder, rape and looting. -
Munich Pact
The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. -
Tripartite Act
The Tripartite Pact, also called the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Lend-Lease Act
Lend-Lease (Public Law 77-11) was the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the British West Indies. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was an unannounced military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
The Great Terror
The Great Terror is a book by British writer Robert Conquest, published in 1968. It gave rise to an alternate title of the period in Soviet history known as the Great Purge.
