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3 days ago · 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 1944–45 marked the Third Reich ’s final push in the west.
- Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa, during World War II, code name for the...
- The Far East
Technology of war, 1918–39; The war in Europe, 1939–41. The...
- Costs, Impact, Legacy
World War II casualties 1 Figures for deaths, insofar as...
- German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, pact signed on August 23,...
- The Battle of Britain
Technology of war, 1918–39; The war in Europe, 1939–41. The...
- Pearl Harbor Attack
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor marked the beginning of...
- Facts & Related Content
World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every...
- World War I
World War I was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century...
- Operation Barbarossa
1 day ago · The war in Europe concluded with the liberation of German-occupied territories; the invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the Fall of Berlin to Soviet troops; Hitler's suicide; and the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945.
- Allied victory
3 days ago · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was first used by writer George Orwell.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It was part of a larger regional conflict as well as a manifestation of the Cold War.
- Ronald H. Spector
3 days ago · Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. This is a list of wars that began from 2003 onwards. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
4 days ago · Introduction. In this programme, we’ll be hearing about the extraordinary life of BBC war correspondent, Fergal Keane. His reporting helped his television audiences make sense of the horrors of...
4 days ago · At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected U.S. president was forced to confront an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim terrorists sworn to carry out jihad against all Western powers. As timely and familiar as these events may seem, they occurred more than two centuries ago.
