Campaigns and fronts across the map.
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World War I
The 1914-1918 industrial war that broke empires, enfranchised mass mourning, and left a peace that did not hold.
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2World War II
A global industrial war, 1939-1945, that killed tens of millions and remade borders, law and nuclear politics.
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KKorean War
A 1950-53 peninsula war, still without a peace treaty, that fixed two Korean states and a US-ROK alliance.
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VVietnam War
A 1955-75 Indochina war that fused decolonisation, civil war and US intervention -- and remade English-language memory of limited war.
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NNapoleonic Wars
Coalition wars of 1803-1815 that spread conscription, the Code, and a British sea-power order -- ending at Waterloo.
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SBattle of Stalingrad
The 1942-43 Volga battle that destroyed the German 6th Army and turned the European war on the Eastern Front.
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NNormandy landings
The 6 June 1944 cross-Channel landing that opened the long-delayed Western Front in France -- Overlord, not a war by itself.
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MBattle of Midway
The 4-7 June 1942 carrier battle that wrecked Japan's first-line carrier force and shifted the Pacific war.
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KBattle of Kursk
The 1943 German Citadel offensive against the Kursk bulge -- the last strategic German attack in the east -- and the Soviet counteroffensives that followed.
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IBattle of Inchon
The 15 September 1950 UN amphibious landing that cut KPA supply to the Pusan Perimeter and retook Seoul -- a tide-table gamble, not the end of the Korean War.
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TBattle of Tsushima
The 27-28 May 1905 fleet action in which Togo Heihachiro destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet -- a Korean-strait day that ended a war and recast Asian naval hierarchy.
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WBattle of Waterloo
The 18 June 1815 allied victory that ended the Hundred Days and Napoleon's return -- Wellington, Blucher, and a muddy ridge.
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