Category: January

Southern Asia 1941

Japanese Intervention in French Indochina

Germany's defeat of France in 1940...

Europe 1942

The War Expands

Beginning in December, a Russian...

Asia Pacific 1942

Japanese Onslaught in the Pacific

Following Pearl Harbor, the Japanese...

Australasia 1942

Japan Comes South

Even as their planes racked Pearl...

Northern Eurasia 1944

Lower Dnieper Offensive

After its victories at Stalingrad...

Europe 1944

Soviet Breakthrough

The latter half of 1943 saw the...

Australasia 1946

Japanese Surrender

Japan surrendered on August 15,...

Southern Asia 1948

Independence of Burma

The British departure from India in...

Southern Asia 1949

First Arab-Israeli War

When Israel declared independence in...

Asia Pacific 1949

Communist Victory in Northern China

In China, the uneasy truce between...

East Asia 1949

Communist Victory in North China

With their defeat at Xuzhou, the...

East Asia 1951

Chinese intervention in Korea

By November 1950, the American-led...

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