Germans marched into France through the low land countries with the attempt to brush the British islands with an elbow while marching, as stated in Von Schlieffen plan in World War I. Soon Hitler appeared victorious in Western Europe and forced the French to surrender in the same piece of railway train carriage, in which German surrendered in World War I. Then Hitler, as martial as he was, blew up the carriage being afraid of more treaty could be signed in that particular boxcar.

To the disappointment or surprise of the Germans, those stubborn British gene sets in, the same kind that worked miracles in Agincourt, or Dunkirk, weathered Nazi storm during the Battle of London. The "finest hour" of the British people had the same ring to it as the Roman who put a hand into the fire; or the American rhetoric of "cook and eat my left arm and fight with my right one" under starvation and siege; or 要离 of the Chinese old times.

After the Battle of London, the impatient and gluttonous Hitler occupied Scandinavia countries and then Balkan ones before invading USSR. He met his matches near Moscow, by the Red Amy and it was said that Russian had two most powerful generals, General January and General February, but this year, there was another powerful general joined in whose name was General December.

The impatient Japanese bombed Perl Harbor and the Pacific Fleet of the United States, while attacking Philippines and other Asian strategic points simultaneously. American/Germany soon declared war against each other and it was said by Sir Churchill, that was the night he had his best beauty sleep during the World War II.

After Stalingrad and Midway, the tide of the war soon turned. Although there were many bloody battles still left to fight, but the outcome of the war was never in doubt. It was merely a matter of "when" not "if". North Africa, Sicily, Southern Italy, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Poland, Berlin, each of the battles were still hard fought because the German genes contained certain ingredient that was very mechanic and no-nonsensical. Over in Pacific, there were battles of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and finally two atomic bombs and waves of Russian Red Army from the "Russian Stream Roller" forced Japanese to accept the unconditional surrender. But in reality, it was not a surrender without any conditions. In Japan, it was not called "surrender", but rather "终战", which literally meant "fighting stopped".

In the victorious China, people celebrated with Nationalists celebrated harder than many other groups. They were at the height of their power in the country, and apparently overdone their celebration with numerous officials 接收大员 regarding the properties on their own soil as spoils of war and regarded their own citizens as would-be slaves. Such excess spilled over many years later in areas such as 台湾, but in mainland China, it soon spelled the doom of the Nationalist party reign after the liberation war 解放战争 triggered by mis-administration of the Nationalists.

After World War II, there was another organization formed to avoid further armed conflicts in the world, and it was named the United Nation. America as the leader of the English-speaking people started to view themselves as the next Roman Empire of the world.

Europe celebrated the victory of World War II with joys and tears, along with shocks of discovering the holocaust. Soon the grim reality of the state of economy set in. After touring Greece and countries of Western Europe, General Marshall felt that if American did not finance these countries to rebuild their economy, poor workers over there would soon turn to Communism. Compounded with the debate of "who lost China" and fear of "spread of communism", events followed suit included: beginning of Cold War, Marshall Plan, Berlin Air-lift.

Christians in the world like to point out that Israel had been at war since the beginning of its establishment, to convince others that Bible prophecies are real, and not a coincidental. The reality was that after World War II, many newly found countries were immediately dragged into war with someone else. Among all the people living in the world, there are always some wanting peace and some others wanting war. But most of the people wanting other people to fight wars so they can benefit. And there are many other people either do not care, or even interested in watching with amusement, if wars were raging in somebody else's backyard - speaking of media tycoons for instance. It is again the Machiavellian thinking of the human nature that man are always selfish that love would be soon forgotten, but fear would not be.

China was also in many wars soon after the establishment of People's Republic of China 中华人民共和国. In the international stage, the first time that newly established United Nation authorized use of force against anybody was against Korea. Such passage of the authorization was done with a little luck while one of the permanent security console member with vetoing power - Russia - was taking a rage break out of the conference room. Inside China, there were many bandits, and remnants of the Nationalists to put down 剿匪, and a war conducted by so many European powers in a country so close to China, as close as Canada is to US, threatened all the Chinese psychologically, financially and physically.

So Chinese and North Koreans joined hands together in another war 抗美援朝 backed by a permanent member of the security console of the United Nations against the United Nations. National unity was strong among all in China. Even the still poor (by Western standard) Chinese actors/actresses donated money to buy airplanes to support their troops. Two sides fought the Korean War into a stalemate that hasn't technically ended, but rather in a state of truce. The stalemate was later described by some as those of Western front of World War I or Italian front of the World War II

When countries were at peace internationally, some other things would come up in the domestic front. In China, there were such activities such as: 反右 大跃进 . In the greater socialist family, among one side of the Cold War allies, there were activities such as: 反帝反修 Hungarian Revolt. In the West, things like MacArthur, McCarthy happened along with Elvis and the Beatles.

When things didn't go very well in China, due to natural and man made disasters 灾害, one group of politician was able to gain upper hand temporarily against Mao 毛泽东. But being a veteran in class struggle himself, Mao was quick to recover and regained power with help of his not-so-dearly-loved wife 炮打司令部/文革/阶级斗争 like the family of Clinton's. After Mao died, the new slogan by his successor was 抓刚治国, which was supposedly trying to keep China along the track it was in. But drastic changes were brewing, as China could not afford to be standing still like Kennedy once said to Nixon about the United States.

While Cultural Revolutions were happening in China, a similar generation gap oriented cultural revolution was also happening in the West. Taking a look carefully, such culture revolution in the West had something to do with that of the East and the Cold War. Vietnam had been trying to gain independence after the World War II along with everybody else in the Asia and Africa that had been belittled and oppressed for a long time. French had no resources to support its colonization in the area and Americans were afraid of the spread of communism into this newly formed power vacuum. Therefore US government started sending in more and more spies, advisers and then military personnel to the country, until eventually sending in troops after troops outright.