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was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945. It followed the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95.
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One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934.
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The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland.
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U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II
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The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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the Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II
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The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands
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it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.
