List of military engagements of World War II

USS Lexington explodes during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

An RAF Spitfire shortly before World War II.

This is a list of military engagements of World War II encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localised to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war. Another misnomer is the Battle of Britain, which by all rights should be considered a campaign, not a mere battle.

Battles 1
- 1939 1.1
- 1940 1.2
- 1941 1.3
- 1942 1.4
- 1943 1.5
- 1944 1.6
- 1945 1.7
Sieges 2
Naval engagements 3
Major bombing campaigns 4
Operations 5
- Raids 5.1
Defensive lines 6
Contemporaneous wars 7
See also 8

Battles

1939

• Invasion of Poland Battle of the Bzura Battle of Mława Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski Battle of Kock Battle of Warsaw	Poland invaded by Nazi Germany.
• Soviet invasion of Poland Battle of Lwów Battle of Wilno Battle of Grodno Battle of Szack Battle of Wytyczno	Poland invaded by Soviet Union.
• Saar Offensive	French attack on Saarland.
• Winter War Battle of Tolvajärvi Battle of Suomussalmi	Finland invaded by the Soviet Union and, initially, resists successfully.
• First Battle of Changsha	First Japanese attempt to take Changsha in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• 1939–40 Winter Offensive	First large-scale Chinese counter-offensive operation.
• Battle of the River Plate	The Admiral Graf Spee chased into Montevideo harbour and later scuttled.

1940

• Battle of the Atlantic	Name given to the conflicts in the Atlantic Ocean between 1940 and 1945.
• Winter War Battle of Kollaa Battle of Honkaniemi	The only tank battle during the Winter War.
• Battle of Drøbak Sound	Took place on the first day of the German invasion of Norway.
• Battles of Narvik	Minor Allied victory in Norway.
• Battle of Namsos	Failed Allied attempt to halt the Germans in Norway.
• Battle of the Netherlands	Germany defeats the Dutch in Europe during the opening stages of the first operation of the Battle of France, "Case Yellow" (Fall Gelb).
• Battle of Belgium	Germany defeats Belgium during the continuation of Fall Gelb.
• Battle of France	Germany defeats France and the British Expeditionary Force in the culmination of Fall Gelb. The remainder of France is defeated in the second operation of the Battle of France, "Case Red" (Fall Rot).
• Battle of Dunkirk	Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force.
• Attack on Mers-el-Kébir	Operation "Catapult", the Royal Navy destroys most of the French Navy to avoid ships falling in German hands.
• Battle of Britain	The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) fails to defeat the British Royal Air Force as the precondition for the invasion of Britain.
• British Somaliland	Italian conquest of British Somaliland
• First Battle of French Indochina	The forces of Imperial Japan successfully invade French Indochina but leave the Vichy French forces in control.
• Battle of Dakar	An unsuccessful attempt by the Allies to capture the strategic port of Dakar from Vichy French control.
• Greco-Italian War Battle of Pindus	Italian forces invade Greece from Albania and are repelled. Greek counter-attack drives Italians back into Albania.
• Battle of Gabon	Free French forces under General Charles De Gaulle take Libreville, Gabon, from Vichy French forces.
• Battle of Taranto	British carrier-based planes destroy the Italian fleet in Taranto Harbor.
• Hundred Regiments Offensive	Major offensive by the Chinese Red Army against the Imperial Japanese Army.

1941

• Battle of Ko Chang	Vichy French naval victory against naval forces of Thailand during French-Thai War.
• Battle of the Litani River	Australian forces cross the Litani River to begin the Syria-Lebanon Campaign against Vichy French forces.
• Battle of Damascus	Commonwealth and Allied forces take Damascus from the Vichy French.
• Battle of Beirut	Commonwealth and Allied forces take Beirut and the Vichy French surrender all forces in Syria and Lebanon.
• Battle of Keren	Commonwealth and Allied forces defeat Italian forces at Keren in the decisive battle of the East African Campaign.
• Battle of Cape Matapan	British fleet defeats Italian fleet.
• Battle of Denmark Strait	The German battleship Bismarck sinks HMS Hood.
• Invasion of Yugoslavia	Germany and Axis allies invade Yugoslavia via Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Albania.
• Battle of Greece	Germany and Axis allies invade Greece via Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania.
• Battle of Crete	German paratroopers capture Crete, but suffer many casualties.
• Operation Barbarossa Battle of Smolensk Battle of Kiev Battle of Moscow	German invasion of the Soviet Union. The German advance is halted, albeit temporarily. The German Army Group Centre is driven back from Moscow.
• Battle of Gondar	The final defeat of organized Italian forces in Italian East Africa by Commonwealth and Allied forces.
• Attack on Pearl Harbor	Surprise Japanese attack destroys almost all the US Pacific Fleet.
• Second Battle of Changsha	Japan's second unsuccessful attempt to take Changsha in China.
• Battle of Shanggao	Japanese 11th army attacked the headquarters of the Chinese 19th army.
• Battle of Thailand	Japan successfully invades and occupies Thailand.
• Battle of Hong Kong	Japan captures the British colony of Hong Kong.
• Battle of Guam (1941)	Japan successfully capture the American territory of Guam.
• Battle of Wake Island	Japan captures the atoll of Wake Island.
• Battle of Malaya	Japan successfully invades and occupies Malaya.

1942

• Battle of Dražgoše	First direct engagement between Slovenian partisans and German occupying forces.
• Battle of Makassar Strait	Japanese aircraft raid an American and Dutch convoy.
• Battle of Singapore	Japan takes Singapore.
• Battle of the Java Sea	Japanese forces wipe out an Allied naval squadron.
• Battle of Badung Strait	Heavily outnumbered Japanese forces defeat an Allied night-time naval attack.
• Battle of Java	Japanese forces invade the island of Java
• Indian Ocean raid	Allied naval forces and shipping incur heavy losses during Japan's Fast Carrier Strike Force sortie.
• Battle of Christmas Island	The Japanese occupy Christmas Island without any resistance.
• Battle of Corregidor	Philippines lost to Japan.
• Japanese capture of Burma	Burma lost to Japan.
• Battle of Nanos	Eight hundred Italian soldiers lay siege to fifty Slovene partisans.
• Doolittle Raid	First air raid on Tokyo.
• Battle of the Coral Sea	First aircraft-carrier vs. aircraft-carrier battle. Japan wins tactically, but loses strategically.
• Battle of Bir Hakeim	The First Free French Brigade buys Allied forces enough time to prevent a German breakthrough to the Suez Canal.
• Battle of Midway	Key defeat of Japanese naval forces in the Pacific; the Japanese lose four aircraft-carriers.
• Convoy PQ-17	A convoy of thirty-five ships leaves Iceland on June 17, bound for Murmansk. Eleven arrive on July 5.
•Battle of the Aleutian Islands	Japanese invade and occupy two islands of Alaska's Aleutian archipelago as part of a feint designed to cover the Imperial Fleet's intended trap at Midway. Foreign troops are not expelled from US soil until the following
•Attack on Sydney Harbour	Japanese midget submarines attack Sydney harbour.
•First Battle of El Alamein	British Eighth Army stops Rommel's Axis forces invading Egypt.
•Second Battle of El Alamein	Montgomery's Eighth Army forces Rommel out of Egypt.
•Battle of Sevastopol	Captured by Germans after eight-month siege.
•Battle of Changsha (1942)	Chinese claim victory over Japanese.
•Kokoda Track Campaign	Australians and U.S. for the first time in World War II stop a Japanese offensive, this one to capture Port Moresby.
•Battle of Guadalcanal	Beginning of Allied action in Solomon Islands.
•Battle of Savo Island	Japanese sink four US cruisers.
•Battle of Dieppe	"Operation Jubilee" was an Allied amphibious raid on the German occupied port of Dieppe in France. A tactical disaster for the Allies. However lessons learned applied to later amphibious operations including D-Day.
•Battle of Stalingrad	City besieged by Paulus' German Sixth Army; from November 23 the Sixth Army is surrounded and destroyed by Soviets; bloodiest battle in history, 1.8 millions dead approx.
•Battle of the Eastern Solomons	Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō sunk.
•Battle of Milne Bay	First time Japanese landing force had been driven back into sea.
•Battle of Buna-Gona	Australians and U.S. defeat Japanese on north coast of New Guinea.
•Battle of Wau	Australians defeat Japanese attempts to capture Wau, New Guinea.
•Battle of the Bismarck Sea	U.S. and Royal Australian Air Force planes attacked and sink most of a Japanese convoy carrying troops to reinforce Lae, New Guinea.
•Salamaua-Lae campaign	Australian and U.S. forces capture two major Japanese bases at Lae and at Salamaua.
•Operation Cartwheel	Operation to neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul.
•Battle of Cape Esperance	near Guadalcanal
•Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands	near Guadalcanal, USS Hornet (CV-8) sunk.
•Operation Torch	Allied landings in North Africa and successful Putsch of French Resistance in Algiers to prevent Vichyist forces opposition.
•Naval Battle of Guadalcanal	US defeats Japan, a turning point.
•Battle of Tassafaronga	off Guadalcanal
•Second Battle of Kharkov	Failed Soviet attempt to retake Kharkov.
•Battle of Changsha (1942)	Second Sino-Japanese War
•Battle of Madagascar	Allies capture Madagascar from Vichy France.

1943

• Battle of Osankarica	About 2000 Germans massacred all 69 men and women of the Pohorje battalion. Germans lost 19 men and had 31 wounded.
• Battle of Rennell Island	Japanese bombers sink a cruiser.
• Battle of Guadalcanal	Allies take the island.
• Third Battle of Kharkov	Germans retake Kharkov.
• Battle of the Kasserine Pass	Battle between US and German armored forces in Tunisia.
• Battle of Neretva	German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) offensive in southern Bosnia. Offensive launched to encircle and destroy the Yugoslavian Communist Partisan forces found there. Supporting the German forces in this effort were Italian, Croatian, Ustaše, and Yugoslavian Royalist Chetnik units. The partisans were badly mauled but managed to escape encirclement.
• Battle of the Komandorski Islands	Naval engagement between US and Japan in the Bering Sea.
• Battle of Bismarck Sea	United States sinks Japanese transports.
• Battle of the Bering Sea	United States and Japanese navies fight an inconclusive battle.
• Battle of Attu	United States troops defeat and drive the Japanese off the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	5,000 Jews and 2,000 Germans die, Jews confined.
• Battle of Sutjeska	Another attempt by German forces in Yugoslavia, this time supported by Italian, Bulgarian, Croatian, and Cossack units, to encircle and destroy the Yugoslavian Communist Partisan forces in southern Bosnia. Again, the partisans were mauled but escaped.
• Battle of Castle Turjak	Slovene partisans took the castle guarded by the Slovene village sentries.
• Battle of Kursk	Germans attack Kursk salient at Orel and Belgorod, Russians drive them back. Arguably the largest tank battle ever fought.
• Allied invasion of Sicily	Allies take Sicily from the Italians and German armies.
• Allied invasion of Italy	Landings at Calabria, Taranto and Salerno.
• Dodecanese Campaign Battle of Kos Battle of Leros	Allied and German scramble to occupy the Dodecanese Islands. German amphibious and airborne operation to capture Kos. German amphibious and airborne operation to capture Leros.
• Battle of Smolensk	The Soviets attack 850,000 German troops near Smolensk fortified region, drive them back inflicting severe losses.
• Battle of Kiev (1943)	Kiev retaken by Soviets.
• Raid on Schweinfurt	milestone air battle between the Luftwaffe and the USAAF known as "Black Thursday."
• Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission	another major daylight air battle, first shuttle mission.
• Battle of Tarawa	First major American amphibious landing in the Pacific.
• Battle of Makin	Americans capture the atoll of Makin Atoll.
• Battle of the Bernhardt Line	U.S. 5th Army sustains 16,000 casualties fighting through the Mignano Gap to reach the Cassino defenses.

1944

• Battle of Cisterna	Part of Operation Shingle, the 1st, 3rd, and 4th US Army Ranger battalions attempted to capture the town of Cisterna.
• Battle of Monte Cassino	Four battles in Italy Jan - May. Allies finally breakthrough towards Rome.
• Battle of Monte Castelo	Also called Operation Encore, 25 November 1944 - 22 February 1945. The battle marked the Brazilian Expeditionary Force's entry into the land war in Europe.
• Battle of Anzio	American forces assault the Beaches of Anzio.
• Battle of Kwajalein	American forces assault the islands of Kwajalein and Roi-Namur.
• Battle of the Admin Box	Japanese attempt a local counter-attack against an Allied offensive.
• Battle of Eniwetok	Battle between American and Japanese on Eniwetok Atoll.
• Battle of Imphal and Battle of Kohima	Attempted Japanese invasion of India fails with heavy losses.
• Operation Ichi-Go	Successful Japanese campaign to capture American air bases in China capable of sending bombers to Japan.
• Operation Rösselsprung	German attempt to capture Tito using airborne troops.
• Battle of Normandy	Allies invade northern France (Operation Overlord), hard fighting from Cherbourg to Caen, Germans surrounded and destroyed at Falaise.
• Battle of Saipan	The battle was fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands and resulted disastrous for Japanese forces since most died.
• Battle of Guam	American forces capture back Guam.
• Battle of Tinian	American forces capture Tinian.
• Operation Bagration	Soviet offensive destroys German Army Group Center on the Eastern Front.
• Battle of Philippine Sea	Major carrier battle; US lose 123 planes and destroy 315 Japanese planes.
• Battle of Tali-Ihantala	Finnish stop Soviet offensive.
• Warsaw Uprising	20,000 armed Poles against 55,000 Wehrmacht and SS. 90% of city destroyed, more than 250,000 casualties.
• Operation Dragoon	Allied invasion of Southern France.
• Battle of Debrecen	Soviets gain ground in Hungary but German and Hungarian forces manage to withdraw relatively intact after both sides suffer similar losses.
• Gothic Line offensive	British 8th Army and U.S. 5th Army attempt unsuccessfully to break into the north Italian plains.
• Battle of Arnhem	The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed.
• Battle of Peleliu	A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific.
• Battle of Aachen	Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during World War II.
• Battle of the Scheldt	Decisive Canadian victory, solved the logistical problems of the Allies, and opened the port of Antwerp for supplies directly to the front.
• Battle of Crucifix Hill	The 18th Infantry, U.S. 1st Infantry Division take Crucifix Hill, a crucial position to help surround Aachen. Cpt. Bobbie E. Brown is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroics.
• Battle of Angaur	American forces capture an island in Palau.
• Battle of Hurtgen Forest	Stubborn German defense, appalling losses to US army.
• Battle of Leyte	American and Filipino guerrillas forces capture Leyte.
• Battle of Leyte Gulf	The largest air-sea battle in history.
• Operation Queen	was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the Western Front between Aachen and the Rur river.
• Battle of the Bulge	German counterattack in Ardennes; General McAuliffe says "NUTS" at Bastogne.

1945

• Operation Elephant	Allied offensive against a German bridgehead at Kapelsche Veer in the Netherlands.
• Raid at Cabanatuan	US Army Rangers rescue Bataan and Corregidor POWs from Japanese prison camp.
• Prague Offensive	1st, 4th, and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts of the Soviet Army crushed the last concentration of German troops (over 1,000,000 men in two army groups) in southeastern Germany and Czechoslovakia. These troops were Army Group Centre and the remnants of Army Group Ostmark.
• Operation Spring Awakening	The last desperate German offensive of the war, launched around Lake Balaton, in Hungary.
• Battle of Bataan	U.S. and Philippine Forces retake the historic Bataan Peninsula.
• Battle of Manila	City totally devastated after month-long battle between the American, Filipino and Japanese forces; 100,000 civilians killed.
• Battle of Luzon	The battle where Mexico entered World War II, contributing pilots to help the United States and the Philippines defeat Japan in the South Pacific, with a loss of 37,870 Allied soldiers and 217,000 Japanese soldiers, resulting in an Allied victory
• Battle of Corregidor	Spectacular combined U.S. and Philippine assault retakes island bastion from Japanese forces.
• Raid at Los Baños	U.S. Airborne Task Force rescues more than 2,000 Allied POWs and civilian internees held by Japanese.
• Battle of Mindanao	U.S. Eighth Army together with the Philippine Commonwealth troops completes the recapture of Southern Philippines.
• Operation Varsity	134 Allied gliders land troops in Weisel.
• Battle of the Visayas	U.S. Eighth Army together with the Philippine Commonwealth troops retakes central Philippine islands.
• Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay	Japanese defeated in decisive battle in Central Burma
• Battle of Iwo Jima	After a month, U.S. Forces take main offshore Japanese island.
• Battle of West Henan–North Hubei	Indecisive battle between China and Japan. Japan controls airbases after battle.
• Battle of Halbe	Part of Battle of Berlin, Germans unable to break out.
• Battle of Berlin	Soviet forces encircle and capture German capital; Hitler commits suicide.
• Battle of Triest	British army and Yugoslav capture the city.
• Battle of Tarakan	Allied attack as part of the Borneo campaign.
• Battle of Poljana	(14–15 May 1945) Battle between Yugoslav partisans and HOS (Croatia), German wehrmacht, Slovene Home Guard...
• Battle of Odžak	Last battle of World War II in Europe. Between Yugoslav partisans and HOS (Croatia) from 19 April to 25 May 1945.
• Battle of West Hunan	Chinese victory in final battle to expel Japan.
• Battle of Okinawa	US takes Japanese Island in the Ryūkyūs; many casualties to both sides.
• Battle of North Borneo	Australian victory during final stages of World War II in the Pacific.
• Battle of Balikpapan	Allied victory over Japan.
• Battle of Manchuria	Soviet forces liberate Manchuria.

Sieges

Naval engagements

General

Arctic Convoys
Battle of the Atlantic - the name given to the conflict in the Atlantic Ocean between 1939 and 1945.
- see also Timeline of the Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)
Battle of the Mediterranean
Battle of the Indian Ocean

Specific
1939

The Battle of the River Plate

1940

1941

1942

1943

Battle of the Komandorski Islands

1944

Battle of Leyte Gulf

1945

Operation Ten-Go

Major bombing campaigns

General

Strategic bombing during World War II
Strategic bombing survey for the overall impact of the bombing.

Specific

Baedeker raids
Chungking
Coventry
Operation Retribution (1941) - bombing of Belgrade during 1941.
Broome - Japanese raid on the town of Broome, targeting the airfield.
Dresden
Darwin - Japanese target the harbour.
Hamburg
Helsinki - February 1944, was mostly ineffective due to air defence and deception.
Hiroshima - One nuclear weapon, Little Boy dropped from a B-29, devastating a city.
Kassel
London - "The Blitz" and the V-1 and V-2 campaigns
Lübeck
Nagasaki - One nuclear weapon, Fat Man dropped from a B-29, devastating a city.
Narva - March 1944. Evacuated town was destroyed by Soviet ADD.
Pearl Harbor
Rostock - Heinkel Airplane Construction Plant, Seaport, and City
Rotterdam
Stalingrad - 23 August 1942
Tallinn - February - March 1944. Bombed by Soviet ADD. Large-scale damage.
Tokyo - Several devastating raids.
Warsaw

Operations

Raids

Small to medium-sized raiding operations were carried out by both Allied and Axis armies during World War II. The modus operandi used included guerrilla attacks by partisans in occupied territory and/or combined operations involving the landing and removal of specialised light infantry, such as commandos, by means of small boats.

Allied
- Operation Colossus
  - 10 February 1941
  - Experimental raid by 38 British Commandos on a fresh water aqueduct near Calitri in southern Italy.
- Operation Claymore
  - 4 March 1941
  - 1000 Men from the British Commandos and belonging to the Norwegian Independent Company 1 destroy fish oil factories on the remote islands off the coast of Norway.
- Operation Archery
  - 27 December 1941
  - 570 men from the British Commandos and belonging to the Norwegian Independent Company 1 raid and attack German positions on Vågsøy Island in Norway.
- Battle of Timor
  - 19 February 1942 – 10 February 1943
  - Continuous raids from Australian commandos against the occupying Japanese.
- Operation Chariot
  - 28 March 1942
  - 196 Royal Navy and Army Commando units raid and destroy the heavily defended docks of St. Nazaire in occupied France.
- Dieppe Raid
  - 19 August 1942
  - Over 6,000 infantrymen, mostly Canadian attempted to seize and hold the port of Dieppe.
- Makin Island raid, 17–18 August 1942
- Operation Jaywick, September 1943
- Operation Jedburgh, 1944
- Operation Roast, April 1945
Axis
- Operation Greif, December 1944

Raiding units

Allied
Axis
- Nazi Germany
  - Brandenburger Regiment
  - Waffen-SS (commando force led by Otto Skorzeny).
- Fascist Italy
  - Decima Flottiglia MAS
- Empire of Japan
  - Special Naval Landing Forces

Defensive lines

Contemporaneous wars

Anglo-Iraqi War
Chinese Civil War
Greek Civil War
Second Italo-Abyssinian War
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Soviet-Japanese Border War (1939)
Spanish Civil War
Winter War (Russo-Finnish War), Continuation War, Lapland War

Allies (leaders)	Australia Belgium Brazil Canada China Cuba Czechoslovakia Denmark Ethiopia Lapland War against Germany (1944–45) France Free France (from June 1940) Greece India Italy (from September 1943) Campaign Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines (Commonwealth) Poland South Africa Southern Rhodesia Soviet Union United Kingdom United States Puerto Rico Yugoslavia

Axis and Axis-aligned (leaders)	Bulgaria Reorganized National Government of China Independent State of Croatia Finland Germany Hungary Free India Iraq Italy (until September 1943) Italian Social Republic Japan Manchukuo Philippines (Second Republic) Romania Slovakia Thailand Vichy France (armed neutrality)

Resistance	Albania Austria Belgium Czech lands Denmark Estonia Ethiopia France Germany Greece Hong Kong Italy Japan Jewish Korea Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Philippines Poland (Anti-communist) Romania Thailand Soviet Union Slovakia Western Ukraine Vietnam Yugoslavia

Timeline

Prelude	Africa Asia Europe

1939	Poland Phoney War Winter War Atlantic Changsha China

1940	Weserübung Netherlands Belgium France Second Armistice at Compiegne Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Baltic States Moldova Indochina Greece Compass

1941	East Africa Yugoslavia Greece Crete Iraq Soviet Union (Barbarossa) Finland Lithuania Syria and Lebanon Kiev Iran Leningrad Moscow Sevastopol Pearl Harbor Hong Kong Philippines Changsha Malaya Borneo (1941–42)

1942	Burma Changsha Java Sea Coral Sea Gazala Midway Blue Stalingrad Dieppe El Alamein Guadalcanal Torch

1943	Tunisia Kursk Smolensk Solomon Islands Sicily Lower Dnieper Italy Armistice of Cassibile Gilbert and Marshall Islands Changde

1944	Monte Cassino / Shingle Narva Korsun–Cherkassy Tempest Ichi-Go Overlord Neptune Normandy Mariana and Palau Bagration Western Ukraine Tannenberg Line Warsaw Eastern Romania Belgrade Paris Dragoon Gothic Line Market Garden Estonia Crossbow Pointblank Lapland Hungary Leyte Ardennes Bodenplatte Philippines (1944–1945) Burma (1944–1945)

1945	Vistula–Oder Iwo Jima Western invasion of Germany Okinawa Italy (Spring 1945) Syrmian Front Berlin Czechoslovakia Budapest West Hunan Surrender of Germany Project Hula Manchuria Manila Borneo Atomic bombings Kuril Islands Shumshu Surrender of Japan

Aspects

General	Air warfare of World War II Blitzkrieg Comparative military ranks Cryptography Diplomacy Home front United States Australian United Kingdom Lend-Lease Manhattan Project Military awards Military equipment Military production Nazi plunder Opposition Technology Total war Strategic bombing Bengal famine of 1943 Chinese famine of 1942-43 Puppet states Women

Aftermath	Expulsion of Germans Operation Paperclip Operation Keelhaul Occupation of Germany Territorial changes of Germany Soviet occupations Romania Poland Hungary Baltic States Occupation of Japan First Indochina War Indonesian National Revolution Cold War Decolonization Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Popular culture

War crimes	Allied war crimes Soviet war crimes British war crimes United States war crimes German (Forced labour) / Wehrmacht war crimes Holocaust Aftermath Response Prosecution Italian war crimes Japanese war crimes Unit 731 Prosecution Croatian war crimes against the Serbs against the Jews Serbian war crimes

War rape	German military brothels Camp brothels Rape during the occupation of Japan Comfort women Rape of Nanking Rape during the occupation of Germany Rape during the liberation of France Rape during the liberation of Poland

Prisoners	Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union German prisoners of war in the United States Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Japanese prisoners of war in World War II German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union

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