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Spain and China
Spain is very vulnerable on the Asian theatre to even second tier Asian powers. Both Hideyoshi and Koxinga were able to threaten the Philipines when they planned to invade the region. The local Spanish garrison had to withdraw most of their forces in the surrounding -
Munich Conference
held in Munich on September 29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. -
Non-Agression Act
also called Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, German-Soviet, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in August 23, 1939. nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was only a few days before the beginning of World War II. -
German Invades Poland
also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and the Poland Campaign or Fall in Germany, was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany. TheSoviet Union and a small contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
Battle Of Britan
is the name given to the Second World War air campaign by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought by air forces. -
Operation Barbarosa
was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, commencing on 22 June 1941. Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded Soviet Russia along a 2,900 km (1,800 mi) front, making it the largest invasion in the history of warfare. -
Pearl Harbor
"Pearl Harbor was not used for large ships due to its shallow entrance. The interest of United States in the Hawaiian Islands grew as a result of its whaling, shipping and trading activity in the Pacific. As early as 1820, an "Agent of the United States for Commerce and Seamen" was appointed to look after American business in the Port of Honolulu." -
Bataan Death March
was the forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war which began on April 9, 1942, after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
Battle Of Midway
"was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States". -
Battle Of Stalingrad
was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern part of Europe. -
blitz creg
is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits -
Battle Of Stalingrad
"was a program under the United States supplied Free France, Great Britain an he Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945." -
Battle Of Bulge
was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
holacaust
"was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.Some historians use a definition of the Holocaust that includes the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders". -
Battle of Lwo Jima
The battle was a major of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The Marine invasion also known as "Operation Detachment was charged with the mission of capturing the airfields on the island. U.S. bombed missions to Tokyo. Once the bases were secured, they could then be of use in the impending invasion of the Japanese mainland. -
Battle of Okinawa
"was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945". -
V-E Day
was the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. This marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Bombing of Heroshima
"during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history." -
Nagasaki
"is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became a center of Portuguese and other European influence in the 16th through 19th centuries, and have been proposed for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List." -
Vj Day
The years that encompassed the Second World War marked a traumatic period in the lives of Americans everywhere, including those living in Atlanta, Georgia. Since the outbreak of the war in September of 1939, Americans, who were reminded daily of the devastation of war -
Wasrsaw Pack
was a Canadian experimental rap rock group. Formed in 1999 in Hamilton, Ontario, the band defined its music as fusion of hip hop, jazz, groove and rock. His band mostly politically charged lyrics that critiqued Western consumerism and neo-colonialism.
