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12 hours ago · Operation Market Garden. Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion ...
- 17–27 September 1944
12 hours ago · The Battle of Okinawa ( Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, [24] : 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. [25] [26] The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945 was the largest ...
- 1 April – 22 June 1945, (2 months and 3 weeks)
- Allied victory
12 hours ago · The origins of rock and roll are complex. Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s originating from African-American music. [1] [2] [3] It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [4] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie ...
12 hours ago · But he too left for the US in 1940, because of the rise of fascism in Hungary. Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) continued writing in his neoclassical style during the 1930s and 1940s, writing works like the Symphony of Psalms (1930), Symphony in C (1940) and Symphony in Three Movements (1945). He also emigrated to the US because of World War II.
12 hours ago · The Philippine–American War, [11] known alternatively as the Philippine Insurrection, Filipino–American War, [a] or Tagalog Insurgency, [12] [13] [14] was fought between the First Philippine Republic and the United States from February 4, 1899, until July 2, 1902. [15] Tensions arose after the United States annexed the Philippines under the ...
- American victory, American occupation of the Philippines; dissolution of the First Philippine Republic
12 hours ago · Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history ...
12 hours ago · v. t. e. Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives. Wartime sexual violence may also include gang rape and rape with objects.
