World Wars
Thirty years that reshaped the modern world — from the assassination in Sarajevo to the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri. Both world wars, both fronts, both sides, in 102 sortable events.
What's in this category
World Wars covers the global conflicts of 1914–1918 and 1939–1945 in depth: the prewar tensions and assassinations, the major declarations of war, the campaigns and battles on the Western, Eastern, Pacific, and African fronts, the home-front shifts, the technological turning points, the major conferences, the resistance and collaboration stories, the Holocaust, and the surrenders that ended each war. Naval, land, and air operations from all major combatants.
What it's not: not a strictly military category — the political, economic, and cultural shifts that came with the wars are in scope. Postwar events (Nuremberg, the founding of the UN, decolonisation aftermath) live in European History and US History.
Sample events
- Germany Declares War on Russia — 1914
- Britain Declares War on Germany — 1914
- Battle of the Somme Begins — 1916
- Germany Invades Poland — 1939
- Pearl Harbor Attack — 1941
- D-Day Landings in Normandy — 1944
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings — 1945
- Japanese Formal Surrender — 1945
+ 94 more events. New events added through corrections and ongoing verification.
How to play this category
Free for everyone. Open Sorting History, tap Play, select World Wars, choose a game length (5, 10, 15, 20, or 30 events), and sort. No subscription needed. Free users see ads between rounds; Explorer and Historian subscribers play ad-free.
Related categories
- US History
- European History
- German History
- Japanese History