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The Globe At War |
This Month In History - Page Two |
March 1945: On March 7, 1945 an enterprising band of American soliders discovered an intact bridge over the Rhine River and hastened the end of the Third Reich. Read more... |
Each month we will profile an important event in history. If you have a historical event you would like to focus upon for an upcoming month, please feel free to contact us. Otherwise, enjoy a monthly look back at important historical events which shaped our world. |
March 2009 |
February 1940: On February 17, 1940 Adolf Hitler approved General Erich von Manstein's plan for attacking the Western Allies, and consequently changed the course of history. Read more... |
February 2009 |
April 1945: By April of 1945 the European War's end game was at hand as the Red Army massed on the approaches to Berlin. Read more... |
April 2009 |
June 1944: In June of 1944 the Anglo-American led alliance invaded German occupied France in the greatest amphibious invasion in history. Read more... |
June 2009 |
May 1943: In May of 1943 the Axis war effort suffered a blow nearly as disastrous as the defeat at Stalingrad. Read more... |
May 2009 |
July 1944: Following D-Day the Allied campaign to liberate France is often regarded as anticlimactic. What is often forgotten however is that July of 1944 proved an anxious time for the Allied leadership. Read more... |
July 2009 |
August 1942: The 1941-45 war fought between Germany and Russia ranks as the bloodiest war fought in human history. Yet, in spite of this historically significant and horrific distinction, modern descriptions of the war often remain grounded in myth or distortion. Read more... |
August 2009 |
September 1939: The Second World War ended well over 60 million lives in six of the most horrific and brutal years in history. Today, we remember the war's beginning, exactly seventy years ago this September, mostly from the perspective of the German war machine's blitzkrieg across Poland. Read more... |
September 2009 |
October 1942: In October 1942 yet another tipping point had arrived in the two year battle fought between Axis armies led by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the British Eighth Army. Read more... |
October 2009 |
November 1944: The fall of 1944 proved the most difficult months the United States Army experienced in the entire 20th Century, if not her entire history. Read more... |
November 2009 |
December 1940: Italy joined Germany's war on June 11, 1940 when Mussolini opportunistically declared war on the seemingly defeated British and shattered French states. Read more... |
December 2009 |