My Trip To India

 Indian-Pakistani War Introduction The  Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948 , also known as the  first Kashmir war ,  was a war fought between  India  and  Pakistan  over the  princely state  of  Jammu and Kashmir  from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four  Indo-Pakistani wars  between the two  newly independent nations . Pakistan precipitated the war a few weeks after its independence by launching tribal  lashkar  (militias) from  Waziristan ,  in an effort to capture  Kashmir  and to preempt the possibility of its ruler joining India. Facts the  Maharaja  of Jammu and Kashmir, was facing an  uprising by his Muslim subjects  in  Poonch , and lost control in portions of the western districts. On 22 October 1947, Pakistan's  Pashtun tribal militias  crossed the border of the state. These local tribal militias and irregular Pakistani forces moved to tak...

World War II How Did The War Start? World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939  with the  German invasion of Poland  and the  United Kingdom  and  France 's declaration of war on Germany two days later on 3 September 1939. Dates for the beginning of the  Pacific War  include the start of the  Second Sino-Japanese War  on 7 July 1937,  or the earlier  Japanese invasion of Manchuria , on 19 September 1931.  Others follow the British historian  A. J. P. Taylor , who stated that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously, and the two wars became World War II in 1941.  Other theorised starting dates for World War II include the  Italian invasion of Abyssinia  on 3 October 1935.  The British historian  Antony Beevor  views the beginning of World War   II as the  Battles of Khalkhin Gol  fought between  Japan  and the forc...