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The Kiev Offense
The campaign that started the Polish–Soviet War proper, was an attempt by the armed forces of the newly re-emerged Poland. -
Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
Japan had invaded Manchuria without declarations of war, breaching the rules of the League of Nations. Japan had a highly developed industry, but the land was scarce of natural resources. Japan turned to Manchuria for oil, rubber and lumber in order to make up for the lack of resources in Japan. -
Second Sino-Japanese War
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in the United States on December 7, 1941, the Second Sino-Japanese War became part of World War II. In China, the war had some important effects. It made more people support the Chinese Communist Party. It also made Chiang's Republic fall apart more quickly -
Rape of Najing
During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered tens or hundreds of thousands of disarmed combatants and unarmed Chinese civilians, and perpetrated widespread rape and looting. It told us a great deal about the contemporary politics of China and Japan. -
Munich Conference
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. -
Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September campaign, 1939 defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Second Polish Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II -
Genocide
Genocide is a term used to describe violence against members of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group with the intent to destroy the entire group. The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe. -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued that defined the Allied goals for the post-war world, including self-determination for nations and economic and social cooperation among nations. -
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. The Battle of Moscow is considered one of the most important battles in the war between the Axis Powers and the USSR because the Soviets were able to successfully prevent the most serious attempt to capture their capital. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. This action offically brought the United States into the war. -
Island Hoping
The US “island hopping” strategy targeted key islands and atolls to capture and equip with airstrips, bringing B-29 bombers within range of the enemy homeland, while hopping over strongly defended islands, cutting off supply lanes and leaving them to wither. In order to defeat Japan, the United States came up with a plan that was known as “Island Hopping”. Through this measure, the U.S. hoped to gain military bases and secure as many small islands in the Pacific as they could. -
Battle of El Alamein
The battle ended the long fight for the Western Desert, and was the only great land battle won by the British and Commonwealth forces without direct American participation. The victory also persuaded the French to start cooperating in the North African campaign. -
Tunisia Campaign
Tunisia became the final foothold for the Axis from which evacuation of surviving forces departed for the island of Sicily further north. The Allied conquest of Tunisia was completed by mid-May 1943. Tunisia served as a major staging point in the subsequent invasion of Sicily. -
D-Day
Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. ... Early on 6 June, Allied airborne forces parachuted into drop zones across northern France. Ground troops then landed across five assault beaches - Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.It marked the turn of the tide for the control maintained by Nazi Germany; less than a year after the invasion, the Allies formally accepted Nazi Germany's surrender. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.