Allies United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Rep. of China Poland France Free France Netherlands Belgium Canada Norway Greece Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia Philippines India Australia New Zealand South Africa Brazil
Axis Powers Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Finland Croatia Slovakia Thailand
• Category • Topics • Conferences
Prelude • Causes · in Europe · in Asia
1939 • Invasion of Poland • Winter War
1940 • Invasion of Denmark and Norway • Battle of France • Battle of Britain
1941 • Invasion of the Soviet Union • Battle of Moscow • Attack on Pearl Harbor
1942 • Battle of Midway • Battle of Stalingrad • Second Battle of El Alamein
1943 • Battle of Kursk
• Guadalcanal campaign • Invasion of Italy
1944 • Battle of Normandy • Operation Bagration • Battle of Leyte Gulf • Battle of the Bulge
1945 • Battle of Okinawa • Battle of Berlin • End in Europe • Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Surrender of Japan
• more military engagements...
Aftermath • Effects • Casualties • Expulsion of Germans • Cold War • In contemporary culture
• Attacks on North America • Blitzkrieg • Comparative military ranks • Cryptography • Home front • Military awards • Military equipment • Military production • Resistance • Technology • Total war
Civilian impact and atrocities • Allied war crimes • Bengal famine of 1943 • Comfort women • Dutch famine of 1944 • German war crimes • Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Holocaust • Japanese war crimes • Nanking Massacre • Siege of Leningrad • Strategic bombings • Unit 731
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