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{{rpl|Phony War|Phoney War}} | {{rpl|Phony War|Phoney War}} | ||
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{{rpl|Battle of the Atlantic}} | {{rpl|Battle of the Atlantic}} | ||
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[[Image:USS Massachusetts BB-59.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{USS Massachusetts BB-59.jpg/credit}}<br />U.S.S. ''Massachusetts'' (BB-59) underway at 15 knots off Point Wilson, Washington on July 11, 1944.<ref>"Big Mamie" fired the first and last American 16" projectiles "in anger" during the Second World War (these being at the November 8, 1942 [[Naval Battle of Casablanca]] and in the form of shore bombardment against the Japanese city of Kamaishi on August 9, 1945.</ref>]] --> | |||
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[[Image:USS Enterprise CV-6.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{USS Enterprise CV-6.jpg/credit}}<br />The aircraft carrier U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' (CV-6) at sea, ''circa'' 1943-44.<ref>The "Big E" earned 20 battle stars for World War II service, making her the most decorated ship in U.S. history. She was also the only aircraft carrier in operation at the beginning of the conflict still in service at war's end.</ref>]] --> | |||
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Revision as of 05:16, 6 June 2024
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Parent topics
War: A state of violent conflict which exists between two or more independent nations or groups, each seeking to impose its will on the others. [e]
military history: The study of armed conflict between nations or other identifiable groups, and the many components, background factors, and implications and impact of those conflicts on nations, individuals and perceptions. [e]- Military: The standing armed forces of a country, that are directed by the national government and are tasked with that nation's defense. [e]
- World War II in the Pacific: Operations between Japan and Allied forces, 1941-1945 [e]
- World War II, air war: Air operations in the Second World War [e]
World War Two in the Pacific: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. [e]- World War II, Origins: Details of the road to World War II. [e]
Related to the article
- Phoney War: The period of the Second World War between the fall of Poland in October 1939 and the invasion of Norway in April 1940. [e]
- Battle of Britain: Those German offensive air strikes, and British defense, with which the Germans had intended to establish air supremacy for their proposed invasion of Britain [e]
- Battle of the Atlantic: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Sicily: In the Mediterranean Theater and Italian Campaign of the Second World War, an Allied invasion of Sicily night of 9 July, 1943, ending 17 August in an Allied victory with the Axis troops either surrendering or withdrawing to the mainland [e]
- Operation Barbarossa: The German invasion of the Soviet Union, beginning on June 22, 1941 [e]
- CBI: Add brief definition or description
- Second Sino-Japanese War: The extension of border clashes between Japan's Kwangtung Army and China, into full-scale war, beginning in 1937 and merging into World War Two in the Pacific [e]
- Battle of Pearl Harbor: Imperial Japanese Navy raid on United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which took place on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. [e]
- Battle of Midway: Generally considered to be the turning point of the Pacific Theater in the Second World War, a Japanese force intending to capture Midway Island was turned back with the loss of four aircraft carriers, at the cost of one U.S. carrier; it was the last major Japanese offensive of the war [e]
- Battle of Guadalcanal: The first Allied offensive campaign of the Pacific theater in WWII, fought August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943; Allied victory [e]
- Battle of the Philippine Sea: A major defeat of the Japanese Navy in World War II by the U. S. Navy in June 1944. [e]
- Battle of Leyte Gulf: An American victory over Japan during World War II and the largest naval battle in history. [e]
- Battle of Iwo Jima: An American-Japanese battle (Feb. 1945) and the epitome of heroism in desperate hand-to-hand combat. [e]
- Battle of Okinawa: The longest, bloodiest U.S. World War II battle in which the Japanese island of Okinawa was captured in the spring of 1945. [e]
Subtopics
- World War II, Origins: Details of the road to World War II. [e]
- World War II, air war: Air operations in the Second World War [e]
- China-Burma-India theater: (CBI), fought in China, Burma and India, created by the U.S., Britain and China and operated 1942 to 1944 with Chiang Kai-shek as nominal Supreme Commander; in practice with an overall British military commander and a U.S. subcommander in China [e]
- World War Two in the Pacific: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. [e]
- World War II, Homefront: The non-military activities of the nations involved in World War II, including politics, society, culture and the economy. [e]
- World War II, Homefront, U.S.: A description of life in the U.S. during World War II. [e]
- Holocaust: Nazi Germany's systematic economic exploitation, followed by killing, of European Jews and others deemed racial and ideological enemies [e]
- Joseph Stalin: (1878 - 1953) The head of Russia's Communist ("Bolshevik") party and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death. [e]
- Adolf Hitler: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. [e]
- Charles de Gaulle: French military and political leader who died in 1970. [e]
- Hirohito: The 124th and longest-reigning Emperor of Japan, 1926-89. [e]
- Chiang Kai-shek: A Chinese revolutionary and Leader of the Republic of China and Kuomintang from 1928 until his death in 1975. [e]
- Mao Zedong: (1893–1976) Former Chairman of the People's Republic of China; military theorist most associated with protracted war [e]
- Hideki Tojo: General of the Imperial Japanese Army and Prime Minister of Japan 1941-1944; Chief of Staff (Imperial Japanese Army), (21 Feb 1944 - 18 Jul 1944); executed for war crimes in 1948 by order of the International Military Tribunal (Tokyo) [e]
- Benito Mussolini: (1883-1945) The Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943; as part of the Axis alliance, he led his country into war against France and Britain in 1940, and against the United States in 1941. [e]
- Winston Churchill: British Prime Minister and war leader during the Second World War from 1940 to 1945; second term from 1951 to 1955. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a historian. [e]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often called FDR, the President of the United States 1933 to 1945. [e]
- National Socialism: Add brief definition or description