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Pacific War
Part of World War II
Clockwise from top left:
Date7 December 1941 – 2 September 1945
(3 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)[c][2]
Location
Result Allied victory
Territorial
changes
Allied occupation of Japan
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
George C. Marshall
Ernest J. King
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Jiang Jieshi
He Yingqin
Chen Cheng
Xu Yongchang
Winston Churchill
Archibald Wavell
Louis Mountbatten
John Curtin
Thomas Blamey
Peter Fraser
A. T. van Starkenborgh
Iosif Stalin
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Hirohito
Tojo Hideki
Koiso Kuniaki
Shimada Shigetaro
Sugiyama Hajime
Nagano Osami
Terauchi Hisaichi
Hata Shunroku
Yamamoto Isoroku 
Toyoda Someu
Puyi
Wang Jingwei
P. Phibunsongkhram
Ba Maw
José P. Laurel
Subhas Chandra Bose
  1. ^ Since July 1937
  2. ^ a b From August 1945
  3. ^ Although Japan had been invading China since 1937, war was not officially declared. Japan would later attack Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, which brought the contained war in China into the wider global conflict.[1]



Vietnam War
Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War
Clockwise from top left:
Date1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975
(19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)[A 1][7]
Location
Result

North Vietnamese and Viet Cong victory

Territorial
changes
Reunification of North Vietnam and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Belligerents
 North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Pathet Lao
Khmer Rouge
Khmer Rumdo
Supported by:
 China
 Soviet Union
 North Korea
 United States
 South Vietnam
 Laos
 Khmer Republic
 South Korea
 Australia
 New Zealand
Thailand
Supported by:
 Philippines
 Taiwan
Commanders and leaders
Ho Chi Minh
Le Duan
Le Duc Tho
Vo Nguyn Giap
Van Tien Dung
Nguyen Chi Thanh 
Nguyen Huu Tho
Tran Van Tra
Hoang Van Thai
Souphanouvong
Saloth Sar
Norodom Sihanouk
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Robert McNamara
William Westmoreland
Creighton Abrams
Ngo Dinh Diem 
Nguyen Van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Cao Van Vien
Souvanna Phouma
Lon Nol
Park Chung Hee
Chae Myung-shin
Robert Menzies
Harold Holt
Thanom Kittikachorn









Hinrich Lohse
Hans-Adolf Prützmann
Friedrich Jeckeln
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
Estonia:
Karl-Siegmund Litzmann
Hinrich Möller
Walther Schröder
Hjalmar Mäe
Johannes Soodla
Arnold Sinka [et]
Latvia:
Otto-Heinrich Drechsler
Walther Schröder
Oskars Dankers
Voldemārs Veiss 
Rūdolfs Bangerskis [lv]
Lithuania:
Adrian von Renteln
Lucian Wysocki
Hermann Harm
Kurt Hintze
Petras Kubiliūnas
Antanas Špokevičius
Povilas Plechavičius
Belarus:
Wilhelm Kube 
Curt von Gottberg
Jakob Sporrenberg
Carl Zenner
Karl Schäfer
Erich Ehrlinger
Radasłaŭ Astroŭski
Francišak Kušal
Ivan Yermachenka

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hsi-sheng1992 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Sun, Youli (15 September 1996). China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931–41. Palgrave MacMillan. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-31216454-6.
  3. ^ "Name of Technical Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon to be added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial". Department of Defense (DoD). Archived from the original on 20 October 2013.
  4. ^ Lawrence, A.T. (2009). Crucible Vietnam: Memoir of an Infantry Lieutenant. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4517-2.
  5. ^ Olson & Roberts 2008, p. 67.
  6. ^ "Chapter 5, Origins of the Insurgency in South Vietnam, 1954–1960". The Pentagon Papers (Gravel Edition), Volume 1. Boston: Beacon Press. 1971. Section 3, pp. 314–346. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2008 – via International Relations Department, Mount Holyoke College.
  7. ^ The Paris Agreement on Vietnam: Twenty-five Years Later (Conference Transcript). Washington, DC: The Nixon Center. April 1998. Archived from the original on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2012 – via International Relations Department, Mount Holyoke College.


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