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People's General, or PeG as it is commonly known, followed SSI's successful 5 Star General Series of World War II war games (Panzer General, Allied General, Pacific General) and their sequel, Panzer General II (PG2). It uses the same game dynamics as these earlier games—turn-based movement & fighting with military units on a hex based map.
World War II Combat: Iwo Jima (aka. The Heat of War) (2006) Wolfschanze 1944: The Final Attempt (2006) Battlestrike: Force of Resistance (aka. Mortyr 3) (2007) Operation Thunderstorm (aka. Mortyr: Operation Thunderstorm) (2008) Royal Marines Commando (2008) Battlestrike: Shadow of Stalingrad (2009)
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 ...
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.
On October 29, 2021, a five-year-old boy discovered a British hand grenade from World War II on the playground of his kindergarten "An der Beverbäke" in Oldenburg. He took it home in his backpack. [155] The kindergarten is located on a former barracks site used by the Bundeswehr until 2007, which was converted into a residential area. [156]
The Soviet Union suffered the greatest number of casualties in the war, losing more than 20 million citizens, about a third of all World War II casualties. The full demographic loss to the Soviet people was even greater. [4] The German Generalplan Ost aimed to create more Lebensraum (lit. ' living space ') for Germany through extermination.
On 25–26 June 1944 the Battle of Osuchy – one of the largest battles between the Polish resistance and Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II – was fought, in what was essentially a continuation of the Zamość Uprising. [ 56] In 1943 the Home Army built up its forces in preparation for a national uprising.
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat [nb 22] during World War II.It saw heavy fighting across Europe for almost six years, starting with Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ending with the Western Allies conquering most of Western Europe, the Soviet Union conquering most of Eastern Europe including the German capital Berlin, and ...