History on Maps

In 1967, Israel defeated Egypt, Syria and Jordan in just 6 days and captured Sinai, Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

Six years later, on October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria struck back in a surprise attack on Yom Kippur. Egyptian troops crossed the Suez Canal, Syrian tanks rolled into the Golan Heights, and Israel came closer to defeat than ever before.

How did two wars only 6 years apart end so differently?

Our new video shows both the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War every day on an animated map

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History on Maps

On 22 June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union with three million troops. What followed was nearly four years of the largest and deadliest land war in history.

Here’s how it unfolded:

1941: Operation Barbarossa smashes the Red Army, Leningrad is besieged, and the German advance is stopped at the gates of Moscow
1942: Germany drives toward the Caucasus oil fields and reaches Stalingrad, where the Soviets encircle the 6th Army
1943: The surrender at Stalingrad and the failed German offensive at Kursk turn the tide for good
1944: The siege of Leningrad is lifted and Operation Bagration destroys Army Group Centre
1945: The Red Army storms Berlin, Hitler dies, and Germany surrenders on 8 May

An estimated 27 million Soviet lives were lost, and the map of Europe was changed for decades.

Watch full video here
#history #germany #soviet #ww2

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History on Maps

On April 9, 1940, Nazi Germany launched Operation Weserübung, a lightning invasion of Northern Europe.

Denmark, with its flat terrain and shared land border with Germany, fell within mere hours. To spare civilian lives against the overwhelming war machine, the Danish government surrendered the very same day, allowing German forces to swiftly sweep across the map.

Norway, however, was a different story. Aided by rugged mountains and deep fjords, the Norwegians put up a fierce fight. Although German forces quickly seized key ports like Oslo and Narvik, the Norwegian army retreated inland. Allied forces British, French, and Polish troops soon landed to assist, sparking brutal battles and briefly pushing the Germans back in the north.

However, the Allied success was short lived. Due to the deteriorating situation in France, the Allies were forced to withdraw in early June. Left alone and outgunned, Norway surrendered on June 10, 1940. In just two months, the map of Scandinavia was completely repainted, beginning a five year occupation.

Watch the full video here

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History on Maps

Step back in time and witness the dramatic unfolding of the Peninsular War (1807-1814).

This captivating video from conflict that shaped Europe during the Napoleonic Wars. Watch as borders shift and alliances change in this detailed map animation.


In 1807, Napoleon's seemingly invincible forces poured into the Iberian Peninsula, expecting a swift and glorious victory. Instead, they awoke a sleeping giant. The Peninsular War was not merely a clash of massive armies on open fields it was a brutal, desperate, and deeply personal struggle for survival.

Watch the full video here

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1 month ago |[YT] | 21

History on Maps

Battle of Cannae (216 BC) | Hannibal Destroyed 70,000 Romans in a Single Day

The Battle of Cannae in 216 BC was one of the most devastating defeats in Roman history and one of the greatest tactical victories ever achieved by Hannibal Barca.

In this video, we recreate the battle using an animated historical map in new style, showing how the armies of Carthage and Rome moved, maneuvered, and fought across the battlefield.

After crossing the Alps and winning a series of major victories in Italy, Hannibal faced one of the largest Roman armies ever assembled. Despite being heavily outnumbered, he turned the Roman army's numerical advantage against itself.

The battle began with a Roman advance against the Carthaginian center. Hannibal deliberately allowed his center to fall back while his infantry on both flanks held their positions. Meanwhile, Carthaginian cavalry drove away the Roman horsemen and returned to strike the Roman army from behind.

The result was a devastating double envelopment. Thousands of Roman soldiers became trapped with nowhere to escape as Hannibal's forces closed the circle around them.

By the end of the battle, tens of thousands of Romans were dead or captured, making Cannae one of the bloodiest single day defeats of the ancient world.

🎬 Watch the battle unfold on the map and see exactly how Hannibal turned Cannae into a military masterpiece.

P/S: I'm still producing the "EveryDay" map based videos, so stay tuned for the next one!

2 months ago |[YT] | 11

History on Maps

The Sino-Vietnamese War & The Third Indochina War

Once united by revolutionary ideals, Vietnam, China, and Cambodia were soon pulled into one of Asia’s most complex and devastating conflicts.

This animated map traces the Third Indochina War from 1978 to 1991, showing how military operations, shifting front lines, and regional rivalries transformed mainland Southeast Asia.

3 months ago |[YT] | 21

History on Maps

Spring, 1775. Tension between Britain and its American colonies had been building for years.

On April 19th, British troops marched to seize a colonial arms cache at Concord. At Lexington, someone fired "the shot heard round the world" and by the time the British staggered back to Boston, they'd taken hundreds of casualties. What began as a skirmish became an 8-year war across the entire eastern seaboard.


Britain held every advantage on paper a professional army, the world's strongest navy. Washington's Continental Army lost far more battles than it won, and by the winter at Valley Forge, it was starving and on the verge of collapse.


Then came Saratoga in 1777, an entire British army surrendered, convincing France to join the war on America's side. By 1781, Washington and French forces trapped General Cornwallis at Yorktown, with the French navy sealing off any escape by sea. He surrendered. Two years later, Britain formally recognized American independence. 🔗

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History on Maps

Spring, 1940. France believed it was ready.

Behind the fortified Maginot Line, one of Europe's most respected armies waited for a slow, grinding war like the one their fathers fought in 1914.


But on May 10th, Germany didn't attack where everyone expected. They pushed through the Ardennes forest terrain considered "impassable" for tanks and tore through French lines at Sedan within days.


While Allied forces rushed north to meet a decoy invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands, the real German armored spearhead was quietly racing to the coast, cutting off the entire British and French force from the rest of the country.


By late May, hundreds of thousands of soldiers were trapped on a single beach at Dunkirk. The evacuation "Operation Dynamo" became one of the most remarkable rescues in military history. But it was also proof that France had already lost.


On June 14th, German troops marched into Paris without firing a shot. Just 8 days later, France signed an armistice. A major European power had become an occupied nation in just 6 weeks.

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3 months ago |[YT] | 22

History on Maps

In May 1919, Greek troops landed at Smyrna and Allied fleets sat in the harbour of a defeated, occupied empire. Three years later, the map of Anatolia looked completely different. This is the Turkish War of Independence fought one day at a time.

From Mustafa Kemal's landing at Samsun and the birth of the National Movement, to the Grand National Assembly in Ankara and the partition imposed by the Treaty of Sèvres every advance and retreat is tracked on the map as it happened.


The war was fought on three fronts at once. It all builds to the Great Offensive of August 1922, the rout at Dumlupınar, and the dramatic recapture of İzmir the campaign that drew the borders of modern Turkey and brought an end to over 600 years of Ottoman rule.

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History on Maps

Between the fall of the Provisional Government in late 1917 and the consolidation of Soviet power in 1922, the former Russian Empire splintered into one of the most tangled conflicts of the twentieth century.

Seen one day at a time, the sheer instability of the period comes into focus: cities changing hands repeatedly, fronts collapsing within weeks, and a patchwork of competing authorities that static textbook maps tend to flatten into a single tidy narrative.

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