annotated timeline

  • Airplanes

    Airplanes
    An airplane or aeroplane is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane
  • Genocide

    Genocide
    The Armenian Genocide was the systematic mass murder and ethnic cleansing of around one million ethnic Armenians from Anatolia and adjoining regions by the Ottoman Empire and its ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress, during World War I.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
  • Tanks

    Tanks
    A tank is an armored fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armor, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; usually their main armament is mounted in a turret.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank
  • The Kiev Offensive

    The Kiev Offensive
    The 1920 Kiev Offensive, often considered to be the campaign that started the Polish–Soviet War proper, was an attempt by the armed forces of the newly re-emerged Poland led by Józef Piłsudski
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Offensive_(1920)
  • Appeasement

    Appeasement
    Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement
  • Japanese Invasion of China

    Japanese Invasion of China
    The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
  • Second Sino-Japanese War

    Second Sino-Japanese War
    The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement
  • Western Desert Campaign (Desert War)

    Western Desert Campaign (Desert War)
    The Western Desert campaign took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya and was the main theatre in the North African campaign of the Second World War. Military operations began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war and the Italian invasion of Egypt from Libya in September.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Desert_campaign
  • Battle of Moscow

    Battle of Moscow
    The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein
    The First Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought in Egypt between Axis forces of the Panzer Army Africa and Allied forces of the Eighth Army. The British prevented a second advance by the Axis forces into Egypt.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_El_Alamein
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
  • Invasion of Italy

    Invasion of Italy
    The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943 during the early stages of the Italian campaign of World War II. The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group and followed the successful Allied Invasion of Sicily.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy
  • D-Day (Normandy Invasion)

    D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings