Atlas Of Conflicts

The Korean War describes the conflict between communist North Korea and U.S.-supported South Korea for control of the Korean peninsula.

World War I describes how the major power struggles of Europe (supported by various colonial holdings and the British alliance with Japan) erupted into a global war that was marked by new forms of combat that included trench warfare, strategies of attrition, and the first use of airpower.

The Vietnam War explores the long and costly civil war pitting South Vietnamese and U.S. forces against communist guerrillas and North Vietnamese troops.

World War II: Europe describes the European and North African theaters of the horrific conflict that was loosed upon the world as a result of the actions and alliances of an aggressive Germany under the Nazi leadership of the charismatic but evil Adolph Hitler.

World War II: The Pacific concentrates on how events unfolded in the Far East in the titanic struggle between Japan and the forces of the United States and its allies.