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45 1940–1956 Bombing 0 10 ... 60 January 1, 1969 – April 15, 1970 ... Beltway sniper attacks: During three weeks in October 2002, ...
Arson in the 1940s (60 P) B. Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1940s (4 C, 78 P) M. 1940s mass shootings (13 C) Attacks on military installations in the ...
Renewed attacks led to nothing, and this front became a stalemate for the remainder of Barbarossa. [263] [264] The second pincer attack began on 1 July with the German XXXVI Corps and Finnish III Corps slated to recapture the Salla region for Finland and then proceed eastwards to cut the Murmansk railway near Kandalaksha. The German units had ...
Finnish ski troops in Northern Finland January 12, 1940. 1 February: The Japanese Diet announces a record high budget with over half its expenditures being military.; 5 February: Britain and France decide to intervene in Norway to cut off the iron ore trade in anticipation of an expected German occupation and ostensibly to open a route to assist Finland.
Operation Compass (also Italian: Battaglia della Marmarica) was the first large British military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during the Second World War. British metropolitan, Imperial and Commonwealth forces attacked the Italian and Libyan forces of the 10th Army (Marshal Rodolfo Graziani ) in western Egypt and ...
Siege of Calais (1940) Battle of Cape Spada; Case Brown; Central Hubei Operation; 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya; Bombing of Chongqing; Battle of Clos du Doubs; 1940 Cochinchina uprising; Operation Collar (commando raid) Convoy HX 47; Convoy HX 49; Operation Cycle; Czortków uprising
Attacks on religious buildings and structures during World War II (3 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1940s" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
The United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany in 1939, following the German invasion of Poland, but no major land operations occurred in Western Europe during the period known as the Phoney War in the winter of 1939–1940. During this time, the British and French built up their forces in expectation of a long war, and the Germans ...