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Oil campaign targets of World War II. Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (August–September 1941) to secure access to Persian oil. Dutch East Indies campaign (1941–1942) Japan operation to secure oil and rubber resources. Case Blue and Operation Edelweiss - by Germany in the summer of 1942. Battle of Romania in August 1944, which deprived the ...
Operation Pluto. A Conundrum is towed across the English Channel laying out pipe to Cherbourg. Operation Pluto ( Pipeline Under the Ocean or Pipeline Underwater Transportation of Oil, also written Operation PLUTO) was an operation by British engineers, oil companies and the British Armed Forces to build submarine oil pipelines under the English ...
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries—including all the great powers—participated, with many investing all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military ...
The Battle of the Caucasus was a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus as part of the Eastern Front of World War II.On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, opening the Caucasus region of the southern Soviet Union to the Germans and threatening the oil fields beyond at Maikop, Grozny, and ultimately Baku.
A map of the Allied army progress during Operation Husky from 11 July to 17 August 1943. The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers ( Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany ).
Bishop (1945) – covering operation for Dracula. Diplomat (1944) – Allied exercise in preparation for joint operations against the Japanese. Dukedom (1945) – British search and destroy operation for Japanese cruiser Haguro. Exporter (1941) – British and Commonwealth invasion of Vichy French -held Syria.
Battle of Timor (1942–43) Battle of the Java Sea (1942) Battle of Sunda Strait (1942) Battle of Java (1942) Second Battle of the Java Sea (1942) Japanese Invasion of Rabaul, January–February 1942. Japanese attacks on Australia: February–June 1942. Bombing of Darwin: February 1942. Attack on Broome: March 1942.
During World War II more than 100,000 [164] Koreans were mandatorily drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. [165] Independence movements during the colonial era included the March 1st Movement. Koreans created an official, formal government to prepare for independence. The Provisional Government of Republic of Korea was established in 1919.