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•  War: A state of violent conflict which exists between two or more independent nations or groups, each seeking to impose its will on the others. ^[e]
•  military history: The study of armed conflict between nations or other identifiable groups, and the many components, background factors, and implications and impact of those conflicts on nations, individuals and perceptions. ^[e]
•  Military: The standing armed forces of a country, that are directed by the national government and are tasked with that nation's defense. ^[e]
• World War II in the Pacific: Operations between Japan and Allied forces, 1941-1945 ^[e]
•  World War II, air war: Air operations in the Second World War ^[e]
•  World War Two in the Pacific: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. ^[e]
•  World War II, Origins: Details of the road to World War II. ^[e]

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•  Phoney War: The period of the Second World War between the fall of Poland in October 1939 and the invasion of Norway in April 1940. ^[e]
•  Battle of Britain: Those German offensive air strikes, and British defense, with which the Germans had intended to establish air supremacy for their proposed invasion of Britain ^[e]
• Battle of the Atlantic: A major campaign to secure Anglo-American shipping routes in the face of German opposition, principally submarine but also involving long-range aircraft and commerce raiding; eventually won by Allied technology, organization and industrial production ^[e]
•  Battle of Sicily: In the Mediterranean Theater and Italian Campaign of the Second World War, an Allied invasion of Sicily night of 9 July, 1943, ending 17 August in an Allied victory with the Axis troops either surrendering or withdrawing to the mainland ^[e]
•  Operation Barbarossa: The German invasion of the Soviet Union, beginning on June 22, 1941 ^[e]
• CBI: Add brief definition or description
•  Second Sino-Japanese War: The extension of border clashes between Japan's Kwangtung Army and China, into full-scale war, beginning in 1937 and merging into World War Two in the Pacific ^[e]
•  Battle of Pearl Harbor: Imperial Japanese Navy raid on United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which took place on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. ^[e]
•  Battle of Midway: Generally considered to be the turning point of the Pacific Theater in the Second World War, a Japanese force intending to capture Midway Island was turned back with the loss of four aircraft carriers, at the cost of one U.S. carrier; it was the last major Japanese offensive of the war ^[e]
•  Battle of Guadalcanal: The first Allied offensive campaign of the Pacific theater in WWII, fought August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943; Allied victory ^[e]

•  Battle of the Philippine Sea: A major defeat of the Japanese Navy in World War II by the U. S. Navy in June 1944. ^[e]
•  Battle of Leyte Gulf: An American victory over Japan during World War II and the largest naval battle in history. ^[e]
•  Battle of Iwo Jima: An American-Japanese battle (Feb. 1945) and the epitome of heroism in desperate hand-to-hand combat. ^[e]
•  Battle of Okinawa: The longest, bloodiest U.S. World War II battle in which the Japanese island of Okinawa was captured in the spring of 1945. ^[e]

Subtopics

•  World War II, Origins: Details of the road to World War II. ^[e]
•  World War II, air war: Air operations in the Second World War ^[e]
•  China-Burma-India theater: (CBI), fought in China, Burma and India, created by the U.S., Britain and China and operated 1942 to 1944 with Chiang Kai-shek as nominal Supreme Commander; in practice with an overall British military commander and a U.S. subcommander in China ^[e]
•  World War Two in the Pacific: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. ^[e]
•  World War II, Homefront: The non-military activities of the nations involved in World War II, including politics, society, culture and the economy. ^[e]
•  World War II, Homefront, U.S.: A description of life in the U.S. during World War II. ^[e]
•  Holocaust: Nazi Germany's systematic economic exploitation, followed by killing, of European Jews and others deemed racial and ideological enemies ^[e]

Other related topics

•  Joseph Stalin: (1878 - 1953) The head of Russia's Communist ("Bolshevik") party and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death. ^[e]
•  Adolf Hitler: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. ^[e]
•  Charles de Gaulle: French military and political leader who died in 1970. ^[e]
•  Hirohito: The 124th and longest-reigning Emperor of Japan, 1926-89. ^[e]
•  Chiang Kai-shek: A Chinese revolutionary and Leader of the Republic of China and Kuomintang from 1928 until his death in 1975. ^[e]
•  Mao Zedong: (1893–1976) Former Chairman of the People's Republic of China; military theorist most associated with protracted war ^[e]
•  Hideki Tojo: General of the Imperial Japanese Army and Prime Minister of Japan 1941-1944; Chief of Staff (Imperial Japanese Army), (21 Feb 1944 - 18 Jul 1944); executed for war crimes in 1948 by order of the International Military Tribunal (Tokyo) ^[e]
•  Benito Mussolini: (1883-1945) The Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943; as part of the Axis alliance, he led his country into war against France and Britain in 1940, and against the United States in 1941. ^[e]
•  Winston Churchill: British Prime Minister and war leader during the Second World War from 1940 to 1945; second term from 1951 to 1955. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a historian. ^[e]
•  Franklin D. Roosevelt: (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often called FDR, the President of the United States 1933 to 1945. ^[e]
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