World War II

  • 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.
  • Rape of Nanjing

    Rape of Nanjing
    The Rape of Nanjing was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, at that time the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese war.
  • Munich Confrence

    Munich Confrence
    British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest.
  • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

    Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
    Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a ten-year nonaggression pact in which each signatory promised not to attack the other for 10 years. This bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relations.
  • 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 theater in the North African campaign of the Second World War.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
    Operation Barbarossa also known as the German invasion on the Soviet Union the Nazi’s code name. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.
  • 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 WWII.
  • 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 8:00 on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.
  • Women in the War

    Women in the War
    Approximately 350,000 American women joined the Military during WWII. They worked as nurses, drove trucks, repaired airplanes, and preformed clerical work. Some were killed in combat or captured as prisoners of war.
  • Battle of the Coral Sea

    Battle of the Coral Sea
    The Battle of the Coral Sea was a major naval battle between the imperial Japanese Navy and naval air forces of the United Stated and Australia.
  • Tunisia Campaign

    Tunisia Campaign
    The Tunisia Campaign was a series of battles that took place is Tunisia during the North African Campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces.
  • D-Day (Normandy Invasion)

    D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
    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.
  • Battle of Iow Jima

    Battle of Iow Jima
    The Battle of Iow Jima was a major battle in which the US Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iow Jima from the imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
  • Crossing the Rhine River

    Crossing the Rhine River
    Operation Plunder was a military operation to cross the Rhine River on the night of March 23, 1945, launch by the 21st Army Group under field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
  • Lebensraum

    Lebensraum
    Lebensraum served as a critical component in the Nazi worldview that drove both us military conquests and racial policy.