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3 days ago · On July 29 and August 2, two atomic bombs -- a uranium-fuelled weapon code-named “Little Boy” and a plutonium-fuelled bomb, “Fat Man,” -- arrived on the island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands, 2,500 kilometres from Japan. Truman authorized the use of the weapons as soon as possible.
1 day ago · 120,000 [11] –200,000 [12] civilian casualties. The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to May 1936. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Italian Invasion ( Amharic: ጣልያን ወረራ ...
- 3 October 1935 – 19 February 1937, (1 year, 4 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
3 days ago · Montgomery’s Battle of el-Alamein and Rommel’s retreat, 1942–43; Stalingrad and the German retreat, summer 1942–February 1943; The invasion of northwest Africa, November–December 1942; Tunisia, November 1942–May 1943; The Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the North Sea, 1942–45; Air warfare, 1942–43; German-occupied Europe
- What was the cause of World War II?World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on S...
- What countries fought in World War II?The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, an...
- Who were the leaders during World War II?The Allied powers were led by Winston Churchill (United Kingdom); Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union); Charles de Gaulle (France); and Franklin D. Rooseve...
- What were the turning points of World War II?The war in the Pacific turned against Japan during the Battle of Midway (June 3–6, 1942), an American victory that destroyed the Japanese first-lin...
- How did World War II end?The Allied landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, opened a second front in Europe, and Germany’s abortive offensive at the Ardennes in the winter of...
- How many people died during World War II?Estimates of the total number of people killed during World War II have ranged from 35,000,000 to 60,000,000—a significant span, because statistics...
5 days ago · The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, [43] was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theater, the Second Sino ...
- 7 December 1941 – 2 September 1945, (3 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
- Allied victory
4 days ago · The Battle of Stalingrad (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) occurred on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and the Axis powers became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the city of Stalingrad in what is now southern Russia.
- 23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943, (5 months, 1 week and 3 days)
- Expulsion of the Axis from the Caucasus, reversing their gains from the 1942 Summer Campaign
5 days ago · As Palestinian author Samir El Youssef tells us in The Illusion of Return, “[w]e should be realistic and forget about the idea of the right to return; the only return we should think of is one of a more symbolic value”: 16 the refugees’ right to return is so often seen as an unfulfillable dream that it is pushed off the agenda. Seen ...
4 days ago · June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953. Location: North Korea. South Korea. Gwangju. Participants: China. North Korea. South Korea. United Nations. United States. Major Events: Inchon landing. Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Battle of Kapyong. Key People: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mao Zedong. Joseph Stalin. Harry S. Truman. Chesty Puller. On the Web:
