Credits[]
Inspired by Henry Hudson's Math problems, I'm doing a history one, but with different rules.
I would also like to thank BNB for telling me to make a historical wiki, but I will try this before that.
Country Histories I can do.[]
A lot of them, but here are the ones I'm best at IMO, but here are some I'm pretty good at.
- Polish/Lithuanian/Latvian/Estonian History.
- Iranian/Persian History.
- Italian History
- French History
- British History
- German History (best at the Kleindeutschland and Grossdeutschland topics.)
- American History
What can I do for you?[]
I will not be answering simple google search questions, however I can do paragraphs about history, but you must have a reason for that. If you don't understand something, before asking before, go to Google, Google is better than a lot of people.
Questions[]
Here you can post questions (make sure to put your username0:
BNB's Question[]
So I've always found World War ll to be a very interesting topic. I don't really have any specific questions, but I would like to learn more about it.
Hi BNB, would you like to learn about major events, or just in total, the total history?
Major events and things that you find intresting
Yoda's Question[]
Hi PL I currently have an assessment on the American Revolution, I don't really need help with anything but what would you say were the most important events that happened in the revolution? (I have to make a timeline) thanks
Sure, I would say the Battle of Monmouth, Battle of King's Mountain, Battle of Fort Ticonderoga, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle of Fort Washington, Battles of Trenton and Princeton, Battle of Yorktown and Battles of Lexington and Concord were the most important.
Thanks PL. Also what do you think was the biggest impact from the revolution? (basically what event in the revolution made the world it is today or later events or anything)
Pdog's Question[]
Hey PL I'm doing a WW2 assignment and I need to name all the major battles in Europe during 1940 and 1943 thxs
Hey P-Dog, this is a very long list, here are all the battles in WW2, it's up to you to decide which are most important.
1940[]
| • Battle of the Atlantic | Name given to the conflicts in the Atlantic Ocean between 1940 and 1945. |
| • Winter War:: Battle of Kollaa:::: Battle of Honkaniemi | : : The only tank battle during the Winter War. |
| • German invasion of Denmark | |
| • Battle of Drøbak Sound | Took place on the first day of the German invasion of Norway. |
| • Battles of Narvik | Minor Allied victory in Norway. |
| • Battle of Namsos | Failed Allied attempt to halt the Germans in Norway. |
| • Invasion of Iceland | |
| • Battle of the Netherlands | Germany defeats the Dutch in Europe during the opening stages of the first operation of the Battle of France, "Case Yellow" (Fall Gelb). |
| • Battle of Belgium | Germany defeats Belgium during the continuation of Fall Gelb. |
| • Battle of France:: Battle of Dunkirk:: Battle of Arras:: Battle of Boulogne | |
| • Attack on Mers-el-Kébir | Operation "Catapult". Feared by the possibility of some French ships moored in the French Algeria could fall in Axis hands, the Royal Navy proceed to a bombardment of Mers-El-Kebir. One French warship is sunk and three others damaged. The operation is in fine a failure as most of the French ships leave to Toulon, southern France. |
| • Battle of Britain | The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) fails to defeat the British Royal Air Force as the precondition for the invasion of Britain. |
| • British Somaliland | Italian conquest of British Somaliland |
| • First Battle of French Indochina | The forces of Imperial Japan successfully invade French Indochina but leave the Vichy French forces in control. |
| • Battle of Dakar | An unsuccessful attempt by the Allies to capture the strategic port of Dakar from Vichy French control. |
| • Greco-Italian War:: Battle of Pindus | Italian forces invade Greece from Albania and are repelled. Greek counter-attack drives Italians back into Albania.: |
| • Battle of Gabon | Free French forces under General Charles De Gaulle take Libreville, Gabon, from Vichy French forces. |
| • Battle of Taranto | British carrier-based planes destroy the Italian fleet in Taranto Harbor. |
| • Hundred Regiments Offensive | Major offensive by the Chinese Red Army against the Imperial Japanese Army. |
| • Battle of Sidi Barrani | The first big British attack of the Western Desert campaign. |
| • Thailand during French-Thai War. | |
| • Battle of the Litani River | Australian forces cross the Litani River to begin the Syria-Lebanon Campaign against Vichy French forces. |
| • Battle of Damascus | Commonwealth and Allied forces take Damascus from the Vichy French. |
| • Battle of Beirut | Commonwealth and Allied forces take Beirut and the Vichy French surrender all forces in Syria and Lebanon. |
| • Battle of Keren | Commonwealth and Allied forces defeat Italian forces at Keren in the decisive battle of the East African Campaign. |
| • Battle of Cape Matapan | British fleet defeats Italian fleet. |
| • Battle of Denmark Strait | The German battleship Bismarck sinks HMS Hood. |
| • Last battle of the battleship Bismarck | The German battleship Bismarck is sunk by the Royal Navy in response to the sinking of HMS Hood. |
| • Invasion of Yugoslavia | Germany and Axis allies invade Yugoslavia via Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Albania. |
| • Battle of Greece:: Battle of the Metaxas Line:: Battle of Vevi:: Battle of Thermopylae | |
| • Battle of Crete | German paratroopers capture Crete, but suffer many casualties. |
| • Operation Barbarossa:: Battle of Smolensk:: Battle of Kiev:: Battle of Moscow | German invasion of the Soviet Union.: The German advance is halted, albeit temporarily.: : The German Army Group Centre is driven back from Moscow. |
| • Battle of Gondar | The final defeat of organized Italian forces in Italian East Africa by Commonwealth and Allied forces. |
| • Attack on Pearl Harbor | Surprise Japanese attack destroys almost all the US Pacific Fleet. |
| • Second Battle of Changsha | Japan's second unsuccessful attempt to take Changsha in China. |
| • Battle of Shanggao | Japanese 11th army attacked the headquarters of the Chinese 19th army. |
| • Battle of Thailand | Japan successfully invades and occupies Thailand. |
| • Battle of Hong Kong | Japan captures the British colony of Hong Kong. |
| • Battle of Guam (1941) | Japan successfully capture the American territory of Guam. |
| • Battle of Wake Island | Japan captures the atoll of Wake Island. |
• Malayan Campaign:: Japanese Invasion of Malaya:: Operation Krohcol:: Bombing of Singapore
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| • Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse | Japanese defeated British naval forces. |
1942[]
| • Battle of Bataan | |
| • Battle of Dražgoše | First direct engagement between Slovenian partisans and German occupying forces. |
| • Battle of Makassar Strait | Japanese aircraft raid an American and Dutch convoy. |
• Battle of Singapore:: Battle of Sarimbun Beach:: Battle of Kranji:: Battle of Bukit Timah
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| • Battle of the Java Sea | Japanese forces wipe out an Allied naval squadron. |
| • Battle of Badung Strait | Heavily outnumbered Japanese forces defeat an Allied night-time naval attack. |
| • Battle of Java | Japanese forces invade the island of Java |
| • Indian Ocean raid | Allied naval forces and shipping incur heavy losses during Japan's Fast Carrier Strike Force sortie. |
| • Battle of Christmas Island | The Japanese occupy Christmas Island without any resistance. |
| • Battle of Corregidor | Philippines lost to Japan. |
| • Japanese capture of Burma | Burma lost to Japan. |
| • Battle of Nanos | Eight hundred Italian soldiers lay siege to fifty Slovene partisans. |
| • Doolittle Raid | First air raid on Tokyo. |
| • Battle of the Coral Sea | First aircraft-carrier vs. aircraft-carrier battle. Japan wins tactically, but loses strategically. |
| • Battle of Gazala | German offensive in the desert south of Tobruk anticipated and nearly defeated, but ended with heavy losses to British armour, forcing a withdrawal. In a surprise strike, Tobruk was taken in a day. Rommel exploited the success by pursuing the British into Egypt, denying them time to recover from the defeat but was checked at El Alamein. |
| • Battle of Midway | Key defeat of Japanese naval forces in the Pacific; the Japanese lose four aircraft-carriers. |
| • Convoy PQ 17 | A convoy of thirty-five ships leaves Iceland on June 17, bound for Murmansk. Eleven arrive on July 5. |
| •Battle of the Aleutian Islands | Japanese invade and occupy two islands of Alaska's Aleutian archipelago as part of a feint designed to cover the Imperial Fleet's intended trap at Midway. Foreign troops are not expelled from US soil until the following |
| •Attack on Sydney Harbour | Japanese midget submarines attack Sydney harbour. |
| •First Battle of El Alamein | British Eighth Army stops Rommel's Axis forces invading Egypt. |
| •Second Battle of El Alamein | Montgomery's Eighth Army forces Rommel out of Egypt. |
| •Battle of Sevastopol | Captured by Germans after eight-month siege. |
| •Battle of Changsha (1942) | Chinese claim victory over Japanese. |
| •Kokoda Track Campaign | Australians and U.S. for the first time in World War II stop a Japanese offensive, this one to capture Port Moresby. |
| •Battle of Guadalcanal | Beginning of Allied action in Solomon Islands. |
| •Battle of Savo Island | Japanese sink four US cruisers. |
| •Battle of Dieppe | "Operation Jubilee" was an Allied amphibious raid on the German occupied port of Dieppe in France. A tactical disaster for the Allies. However lessons learned applied to later amphibious operations including D-Day. |
| •Battle of Stalingrad | City besieged by Paulus' German Sixth Army; from November 23 the Sixth Army is surrounded and destroyed by Soviets; bloodiest battle in history, 1.8 million dead approx. |
| •Battle of the Eastern Solomons | Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō sunk. |
| •Battle of Milne Bay | First time Japanese landing force had been driven back into sea. |
| •Battle of Buna-Gona | Australians and U.S. defeat Japanese on north coast of New Guinea. |
| •Battle of Wau | Australians defeat Japanese attempts to capture Wau, New Guinea. |
| •Battle of the Bismarck Sea | U.S. and Royal Australian Air Force planes attacked and sink most of a Japanese convoy carrying troops to reinforce Lae, New Guinea. |
| •Salamaua-Lae campaign | Australian and U.S. forces capture two major Japanese bases at Lae and at Salamaua. |
| •Operation Cartwheel | Operation to neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul. |
| •Battle of Cape Esperance | near Guadalcanal |
| •Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands | near Guadalcanal, USS Hornet (CV-8) sunk. |
| •Operation Torch | Allied landings in North Africa and successful Putsch of French Resistance in Algiers to prevent Vichyist forces opposition. |
| •Naval Battle of Guadalcanal | US defeats Japan, a turning point. |
| •Battle of Tassafaronga | off Guadalcanal |
| •Second Battle of Kharkov | Failed Soviet attempt to retake Kharkov. |
| •Battle of Changsha (1942) | Second Sino-Japanese War |
| •Battle of Madagascar | Allies capture Madagascar from Vichy France. |
1943[]
| • Battle of Osankarica | About 2000 Germans massacred all 69 men and women of the Pohorje battalion. Germans lost 19 men dead and had 31 wounded. |
| • Battle of Rennell Island | Japanese bombers sink a cruiser. |
| • Third Battle of Kharkov | Germans retake Kharkov. |
| • Battle of the Kasserine Pass | Battle between US and German armored forces in Tunisia. |
| • Battle of Neretva | German Army offensive in southern Bosnia. Offensive launched to encircle and destroy the Yugoslavian Communist Partisan forces found there. Supporting the German forces in this effort were Italian, Ustaše, and Serbian Royalist Chetnik units. The partisans were badly mauled but managed to escape encirclement. |
| • Battle of the Komandorski Islands | Naval engagement between US and Japan in the Bering Sea. (Battle of the Ruhr) March 5, 1943 – July 31, 1943 – The Battle of the Ruhr of 1943 was a 5-month British campaign of strategic bombing during the Second World War against the Nazi Germany Ruhr Area, which had coke plants, steelworks, and 10 synthetic oil plants. The campaign bombed 26 major Combined Bomber Offensive targets.[8] The targets included the Krupp armament works (Essen), the Nordstern synthetic-oil plant (Gelsenkirchen), and the Rheinmetal–Borsig plant in Düsseldorf. The latter was safely evacuated during the Battle of the Ruhr.[5]Although not strictly part of the Ruhr area, the battle of the Ruhr included other cities such as Cologne which were within the Rhine-Ruhr region[9] and considered part of the same "industrial complex".[4] Some targets were not sites of heavy industrial production but part of the production and movement of materiel. |
| • Battle of Bismarck Sea | United States sinks Japanese transports. |
| • Battle of the Bering Sea | United States and Japanese navies fight an inconclusive battle. |
| • Battle of Attu | United States troops defeat and drive the Japanese off the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. |
| • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | 5,000 Jews and 2,000 Germans die, Jews confined. |
| • Battle of Sutjeska | Another attempt by German forces in Yugoslavia, this time supported by Italian, Bulgarian, and Serbian units, to encircle and destroy the Yugoslavian Communist Partisan forces in southern Bosnia. Again, the partisans were mauled but escaped. |
| • Battle of Castle Turjak | Slovene partisans took the castle guarded by the Slovene village sentries. |
| • Battle of Kursk | Germans attack Kursk salient at Orel and Belgorod, Russians drive them back. Arguably the largest tank battle ever fought. |
| • Allied invasion of Sicily | Allies take Sicily from the Italians and German armies. |
| • Allied invasion of Italy | Landings at Calabria, Taranto and Salerno. |
| • Dodecanese Campaign:: Battle of Kos:: Battle of Leros | Allied and German scramble to occupy the Dodecanese Islands.: German amphibious and airborne operation to capture Kos.: German amphibious and airborne operation to capture Leros. |
| • Battle of Smolensk | The Soviets attack 850,000 German troops near Smolensk Fortified Region, drive them back inflicting severe losses. |
| • Battle of Kiev (1943) | Kiev retaken by Soviets. |
| • Raid on Schweinfurt | milestone air battle between the Luftwaffe and the USAAF known as "Black Thursday." |
| • Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission | another major daylight air battle, first shuttle mission. |
| • Battle of Berlin | Germany successfully defend Berlin from the British Empire. |
| • Battle of Tarawa | First major American amphibious landing in the Pacific. |
| • Battle of Makin | Americans capture the atoll of Makin Atoll. |
| • Battle of the Bernhardt Line | U.S. 5th Army sustains 16,000 casualties fighting through the Mignano Gap to reach the Cassino defenses. |
| • Moro River Campaign:: Battle of Ortona |
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