The History of the Twentieth Century
The war against Japan brought the Nationalists and the Communists back into a new alliance, but it didn't last. Mao Zedong polished up his political writings and asserted his authority over the Party.
info_outline 367 El AlameinThe History of the Twentieth Century
Adolf Hitler redeployed Luftwaffe units from the Eastern front to the Mediterranean. With Axis air superiority in the region established, shipments of equipment and supplies to Panzer Army Africa substantially increased. Soon Rommel was on the move again, this time driving the British deep into Egypt.
info_outline 366 The Desert FoxThe History of the Twentieth Century
Rommel was surprised by a British offensive (Operation Crusader) and his forces were driven all the way back to where he had started from a year earlier. But in a few months, he and his army pushed the British back to where they had started.
info_outline 365 The Second Happy TimeThe History of the Twentieth Century
When the United States entered the war, the German U-boats suddenly had many more targets.
info_outline 364 The Man with the Iron HeartThe History of the Twentieth Century
Reinhard Heydrich was one of the most vicious of the Nazis. So much so that the Czechoslovak and British governments decided that he needed to be eliminated.
info_outline 363 MidwayThe History of the Twentieth Century
The Japanese execute their attempted ambush at Midway, and it fails catastrophically.
info_outline 362 Scratch One Flattop!The History of the Twentieth Century
The US Navy sent two of its carriers into the southwest Pacific to thwart the Japanese campaign to take New Caledonia and isolate Australia. The Japanese responded by sending two of their own. The carriers engaged each other in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
info_outline 361 I Could Never Be So Lucky AgainThe History of the Twentieth Century
Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt asked the military to find a way to strike back at the Japanese Home Islands. It took an unorthodox approach to make this possible.
info_outline 360: Now You Belong to the Japanese ArmyThe History of the Twentieth Century
For India, like Australia, the entry of Japan into the war meant it was no longer a distant, European struggle. By May 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army was at the Indian border.
info_outline 359 Order 9066The History of the Twentieth Century
In 1942, many Americans feared a Japanese invasion of the West Coast of the US or Canada was imminent. Regrettably, these fears led to the belief--unsupported by facts--that the ethnic Japanese population on the West Coast represented a dangerous fifth column of potential spies and saboteurs.
info_outlineEven before the first German soldier crossed the frontier into the USSR, the Nazi government in Berlin had a plan for administering occupied Russia.