Category: January

the Arctic 1925

Soviet-Japanese Peace Treaty

The Japanese withdrew from the...

Europe 1933

Hitler Gains Power

The Great Depression that started in...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1935

Abyssinia Crisis

In the 1920s, Mussolini's Fascists...

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...

Australasia 1942

Japan Comes South

Even as their planes racked Pearl...

Asia Pacific 1942

Japanese Onslaught in the Pacific

Following Pearl Harbor, the Japanese...

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...

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