The first state to withdraw from the Union in the year 1860 was South Carolina. It was one of the originating constituent lands of the Confederacy in February 1861. On 12th April 1861, the attack of the beleaguered United States' army at Fort Sumter, is commonly identified as the preeminent military action of the war.
Adolf Hitler´s goal was to defeat and conquer the Soviet Union in order to incorporate its vast territory into his planned empire, securing "Lebensraum" or living space, for the glorious domination of the German race, the superior race according to Nazi propaganda.
