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Campaigns and fronts across the map.

Educational history. Casualty figures are documented ranges. This is not operational advice, a ranking of nations, or a how-to for weapons or coups.

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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World War II

A global industrial war, 1939-1945, that killed tens of millions and remade borders, law and nuclear politics.

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Korean 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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Vietnam 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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Napoleonic Wars

Coalition wars of 1803-1815 that spread conscription, the Code, and a British sea-power order -- ending at Waterloo.

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Battle 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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Normandy 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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Battle 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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Battle 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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Battle 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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Battle 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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Battle 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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