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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]
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- 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 for France and the Low Countries: Add brief definition or description
- 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
- Invasion of Normandy: Add brief definition or description
- Northwest Europe Campaign: Add brief definition or description
- Southern France: Add brief definition or description
- Crossing the Rhine: Add brief definition or description
- Invasion of Greece: Add brief definition or description
- Invasion of Yugoslavia: Add brief definition or description
- North Africa: 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]
- Italian Campaign: Add brief definition or description
- Operation Barbarossa: The German invasion of the Soviet Union, beginning on June 22, 1941 [e]
- Continuation War: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Berlin: Add brief definition or description
- 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: Add brief definition or description
- 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 Coral Sea: Add brief definition or description
- 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: Add brief definition or description- Battle of Okinawa: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- World War II, Origins: Add brief definition or description
- World War II, air war: Add brief definition or description
- China-Burma-India theater: Add brief definition or description
- World War II, Europe: Add brief definition or description
- World War Two in the Pacific: Add brief definition or description
- World War II, Russian Front: Add brief definition or description
- World War II, Homefront: Add brief definition or description
- World War II, Homefront, U.S.: Add brief definition or description
- Holocaust: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Stalin: Add brief definition or description
- Adolf Hitler: Add brief definition or description
- Charles de Gaulle: Add brief definition or description
- Hirohito: Add brief definition or description
- Chiang Kai-shek: Add brief definition or description
- Mao Zedong: Add brief definition or description
- Hideki Tojo: Add brief definition or description
- Benito Mussolini: Add brief definition or description
- Winston Churchill: Add brief definition or description
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Add brief definition or description
- National Socialism: Add brief definition or description