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This is a list of World War II battles.

African & Middle Eastern Front[]

Battles of Fort Capuzzo: June 1940-November 1942
East African Campaign: June 1940-November 1942
- Italian conquest of British Somaliland
- Battle of Keren
- Battle of Keren June 1940
- Battle of Gondar
Battle of Dakar: September 1940
Battle of Gabon: November 1940
Operation Compass: December 1940-February 1941
Battle of Keren: February 1941-April 1941
Siege of Tobruk: April–November 1941
Iraq Campaign: May 22, 1941
Operation Brevity: May 1941
Operation Skorpion: May 1941
Operation Battleaxe: June 1941
Syria–Lebanon Campaign: June–July 1941
Iran Campaign: June–July 1941
Battle of Gondar: November 1941
Operation Crusader: November–December 1941
Battle of Gazala: May–June 1942
- Battle of Bir Hakeim:
Battle of Madagascar: May–November 1942
First Battle of El Alamein: July 1942
Battle of Alam el Halfa: August–September 1942
Second Battle of El Alamein: October–November 1942
Battle of El Agheila: December 1942
Operation Torch: November 1942
- Operation Terminal
- Battle of Casablanca
Tunisia Campaign: November 1942-May 1943
- Battle of the Kasserine Pass
- Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
- Battle of Medenine
- Operation Pugilist
- Battle of El Guettar
- Battle of Hill 609
- Operation Vulcan

Mediterranean Front[]

Attack on Mers-el-Kébir: 3 July 1940
Siege of Malta: June 1940-December 1942
Battle of Yugoslavia: April 1941
Battle of Greece: April 1941
Battle of Crete: May 1941
Operation Strangle: March 1943 - June 1944
Battle of Sicily: July–August 1943
- Operation Ladbroke
- Operation Fustian
- Battle of Troina
Allied invasion of Italy: September 1943
- Operation Slapstick
Dodecanese Campaign: September–October 1943
- Battle of Leros
- Battle of Kos
Battle of Naples: September 1943
Volturno Line: October–November 1943
Barbara Line: October–November 1943
Air Raid on Bari: December 1943
Battle of Ortona: December 1943
Bernhardt Line: December 1943-January 1944
Moro River Campaign: December 1943
Battle of Monte Cassino: January–May 1944
- Operation Diadem
Battle of Anzio: January–June 1944
- Battle of Cisterna
Trasimene Line: June–July 1944
Battle of Ancona: June–July 1944
Gothic Line: August–December 1944
- Battle of Gemmano
- Battle of Rimini
Battle of San Marino: September 1944
Battle of Garfagnana: December 1944
Battle of Monte Castello: November 1944 - February 1945
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy: April–May 1945
- Battle of Bologna:
- Battle of Collecchio:
- Battle of the Argenta Gap:

Western Front[]

Saar Offensive September 1939
Operation Weserübung: April–June 1940
- Norwegian Campaign
  - Battles of Narvik
Battle of the Netherlands: May 1940
- Battle of Rotterdam
- Battle of Zeeland
- Battle of The Afsluitdijk
- Battle of the Grebbeberg
- Battle for the Hague
- Battle of Maastricht
Battle of Belgium: May 1940
- Battle of Fort Eben-Emael
- Battle of Hannut
- Battle of Gembloux
Battle of France: May–June 1940
- Battle of Sedan
- Battle of Arras
- Siege of Calais
- Siege of Lille
- Operation Paula
- Battle of Dunkirk
- Battle of Saumur
Battle of Britain: July–October 1940
- The Hardest Day
- Battle of Britain Day
- Battle of Graveney Marsh
The Blitz: September 1940-May 1941
Operation Cerberus: February 1942
Operation Donnerkeil: February 1942
St. Nazaire Raid: March 1942
Dieppe Raid: August 1942
Battle of Berlin (air): November 1943-March 1944
Operation Overlord: June–August 1944
- Battle of Normandy
Battle for Brest: August–September 1944
Operation Dragoon: August–September 1944
- Operation Romeo
- Battle of Port Cros
- Battle of La Ciotat
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine: August–September 1944
Clearing the Channel Coast: September–November 1944
- Operation Astonia
- Siege of Dunkirk (1944)
- Operation Wellhit
- Operation Undergo
Operation Market Garden: September 1944
- Battle of Arnhem
Lorraine Campaign: September–December 1944
Battle of Metz: September–December 1944
Battle of Nancy: September 1944
Battle of Moerbrugge: September 1944
Battle of Hürtgen Forest: September 1944-February 1945
- Battle of Hill 400
Battle of Overloon: October 1944
Battle of Aachen: October 1944
- Battle of Crucifix Hill
Battle of the Scheldt: October–November 1944
Operation Queen: November–December 1944
Operation Clipper: November 1944-January 1945
Battle of the Bulge: December 1944-January 1945
- Battle of Vianden
- Battle of St. Vith
- Battle of Kesternich
- Battle of Foy
- Battle of Lanzerath Ridge
- Losheim Gap
- Battle of Clervaux
- Elsenborn Ridge
- Operation Stösser
- Siege of Bastogne
- Operation Bodenplatte
Operation Nordwind: January 1945
Operation Blackcock: January 1945
Colmar Pocket: January–February 1945
Western Allied invasion of Germany: February–May 1945
- Operation Veritable
- Operation Grenade
- Operation Lumberjack
- Operation Plunder
- Operation Varsity
- Operation Undertone
- Operation Amherst
- Battle of Kassel
- Battle of Heilbronn
- Ruhr Pocket
Battle of Groningen: April 1945

The Atlantic[]

Battle of the Atlantic: 1939-1945

Eastern Front[]

Invasion of Poland: September–October 1939
- Battle of Tanner
- Battle of Mokra
- Battle of Mlawa
- Battle of Tuchola Forest
- Battle of Jordanów
- Battle of Borowa Góra
- Battle of Wizna
- Battle of Piotrków Trybunalski
- Battle of Hel
- Battle of the Bzura
- Siege of Warsaw
- Battle of Lwów
- Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski
- Battle of Krasnobród
- Battle of Kock
Soviet invasion of Poland: September–October 1939
- Battle of Wilno
- Battle of Grodno
- Battle of Szack
- Battle of Wytyczno
Winter War: November 1939-March 1940
- Battle of Suomussalmi
- Battle of Summa
- Battle of Raate Road
- Battle of Kollaa
- Battle of Petsamo
Operation Barbarosa: June–December 1941
Battle of Białystok-Minsk: June 1941
Operation Arctic Fox: July–November 1941
Operation Bagration: June–August
Bobruysk Offensive: June 1944
Battle of the Bay of Viipuri: June–July 1944
Belostock Offensive: July 1944
Battle of Berlin: April–May 1945
Battle of Bautzen (1945): April 1945
Battle at Borodino Field: October 1941-January 1942
Operation Braunschweig: July–November 1942
Defense of Brest Fortress: June 1941
Siege of Breslau: February–May 1945
Battle of Brody (1941): June 1941
Battle of Bryansk (1941): October 1941
Battle of Roy: November 1941
Budapest Offensive: October 1944-February 1945
Siege of Budapest: December 1944-February 1945
Operation Büffel: March 1943
Case Blue: June–November 1942
Battle of the Caucasus
Concert (operation)
Continuation War
Courland Pocket
Battle of the Crimea (1941)
Battle of the Crimea (1944)
Battle of Debrecen
Demyansk Pocket
Operation Doppelkopf
Battle of the Dnieper
Battle of the Transdanubian Hills
Battle of the Dukla Pass
East Pomeranian Offensive
East Prussian Offensive
Operation Edelweiss
Operation Frühlingserwachen
Gumbinnen Operation
Battle of Halbe
Battle of Hel
Heiligenbeil Pocket
Operation Iskra
Jassy-Kishinev Operation
Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket
Kaunas Offensive
Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
Kerch-Eltigen Operation
First Battle of Kharkov
Second Battle of Kharkov
Third Battle of Kharkov
Fourth Battle of Kharkov
Occupation of Kharkov
Battle of Kiev (1941)
Battle of Kiev (1943)
Battle of Kolberg
Battle of Königsberg
Operation Konrad
Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket
Battle of Krasny Bor
Operation Kremlin
Battle of Kursk^[1]
Operation Kutuzov
Battle of Leningrad
Battle of Lenino
Lower Silesian Offensive
Lublin–Brest Offensive
Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive
Lötzen decision
Operation Margarethe
Battle of Memel
Minsk Offensive
Mogilev Offensive
Moonzund Landing Operation
Battle of Moscow^[2]
Malaya Zemlya
Operation Mars
Nagykanizsa–Kermend Offensive
Battle of Narva (1944)
Battle for Narva Bridgehead
Battle of Tannenberg Line
Nevsky Pyatachok
Battle of Nikolayevka
Operation Nordlicht
Battle of the Oder-Neisse
Siege of Odessa (1941)
Osovets Offensive
Ostrogozhsk-Rossosh Operation
Operation Panzerfaust
Operation Platinum Fox
Polotsk Offensive
Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda
Battle of Porkuni
Battle of Poznań (1945)
Prague Offensive
Pripyat swamps (punitive operation)
Battle of Prokhorovka
Battle of Radzymin (1944)
Battle of Raseiniai
Operation Renntier
Riga Offensive (1944)
Battle of Rostov
Battles of Rzhev
Operation Saturn
Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead
Sea of Azov coastal advance
Battle of the Seelow Heights
Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)
Shyaulyay Offensive
Silesian Offensives
Operation Silver Fox
Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Battle of Smolensk (1943)
Operation Solstice
Battle of Someri
Battle of Stalingrad^[3]
Battle of Studzianki
Bombing of Tallinn in World War II
Evacuation of Tallinn (1941)
Tallinn Offensive
Battle of Târgul Frumos
Tatsinskaya Raid
Toropets-Kholm Operation
Battle of Uman
Upper Silesian Offensive
Operation Uranus
Battle for Velikiye Luki (1943)
Vienna Offensive
Vilnius Offensive
Vistula–Oder Offensive
Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive
Battle of Voronezh (1942)
Battle of Voronezh (1943)
Warsaw Uprising
Battle of Westerplatte
Operation Wintergewitter
Battle of Wizna
Operation Wotan
Yelnya Offensive
Zemland Offensive
Operation Valkyrie

The Indian Ocean[]

The Pacific[]

Battle for Australia
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- Battle of Rabaul
- New Guinea campaign
- Attack on Broome
- Battle of Darwin
Battle of Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941
Philippines Campaign (1941–42): December 1941-May 1942
- Battle of Bataan
- Battle of Corregidor
Battle of Hong Kong: December 1941
Dutch East Indies campaign: December 1941-March 1942
Battle of Guam (1941): December 1941
Battle of Wake Island: December 1941
Battle of Midway: June 1942
Guadalcanal Campaign: August 1942-February 1943
Battle of Savo Island: August 1942
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands: October 1942
Battle of Attu: May 1943
Battle of Tarawa: November 1943
Battle of Cape Gloucester: December 1943–April 1944
Battle of Saipan: June–July 1944
Battle of Noemfoor: July–August 1944
Battle of Guam (1944): July–August 1944
Battle of Peleliu: September 15 - November 17, 1944
Battle of the Philippine Sea: September–October 1944
Battle of Morotai: September–October 1944
Philippines Campaign (1944–45): October 1944 - September 1945
- Battle of Leyte: October–December 1944
- Battle of Leyte Gulf: October 1944
  - Battle off Samar: 25 October 1944
- Battle of Luzon: January–August 1945
- Battle of Manila (1945): February–March 1945
Battle of Iwo Jima: February–March 1945
Battle of Okinawa: April–June 1945

China[]

Mukden: September 1931
Invasion of Manchuria: September 1931
- Jiangqiao Campaign: October 1931
- Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge: November 1931
- Jinzhou: December 1931
- Defense of Harbin: January 1932
Shanghai (1932): January 1932
Pacification of Manchukuo: March 1932
Defense of the Great Wall: January 1933
- Battle of Rehe: February 1933
Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933-36)
- Suiyuan Campaign: October 1936
Battle of Lugou Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge Incident): July 1937
Battle of Beiping-Tianjin: July 1937
Chahar: August 1937
'Battle of Shanghai: August 1937
Beiping–Hankou: August 1937
Tianjin–Pukou: August 1937
Battle of Taiyuan: September 1937
Battle of Pingxingguan: September 1937
- Battle of Xinkou: September 1937
Battle of Nanjing: December 1937
Battle of Xuzhou: December 1937
Battle of Taierzhuang: March 1938
Northern and Eastern Honan 1938: January 1938
- Battle of Lanfeng: May 1938
Xiamen: May 1938
'Battle of Wuhan: June 1938
- Battle of Wanjialing
Guangdong: October 1938
Hainan Island: February 1939
Battle of Nanchang: March 1939
- Battle of Xiushui River: March 1939
Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang: May 1939
Shantou: June 1939
Battle of Changsha (1939): September 1939
Battle of South Guangxi: November 1939
- Battle of Kunlun Pass: December 1939
1939-40 Winter Offensive: November 1939
- Battle of Wuyuan: March 1940
Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang: May 1940
Hundred Regiments Offensive: August 1940
Vietnam Expedition: September 1940
Central Hupei: November 1940
Battle of South Henan: January 1941
Western Hopei: March 1941
Battle of Shanggao: March 1941
Battle of South Shanxi: May 1941
Battle of Changsha (1941): September 1941
Battle of Changsha (1942): January 1942
Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road: March 1942
- Battle of Toungoo
- Battle of Yenangyaung
Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi: April 1942
Battle of West Hubei: May 1943
Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan: October 1943
Battle of Changde: November 1943
Operation Ichi-Go
- Operation Kogo Battle of Central Henan: April 1944
- Operation Togo 1 Battle of Changsha (1944)
- Operation Togo 2 and Operation Togo 3 Battle of Guilin-Liuzhou: August 1944
Battle of West Hunan: April–June 1945
Second Guangxi Campaign: April–July 1945
Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation: August–September 1945

Southeast Asia[]

Invasion of French Indochina: September 1940
Franco-Thai war : 1940 - 1941
Malayan Campaign: December 1941-January 1942
Japanese conquest of Burma: January–May 1942
Battle of Singapore: February 1942
Arakan Campaign 1942–1943: December 1942–May 1943
Burma Campaign 1944: January–November 1944
India Campaign: 1944-1945
- Battle of Imphal
- Battle of Kohima
Burma Campaign 1944–1945: November 1944–July 1945
Battle of the Malacca Strait: May 1945
Operation Tiderace: September 1945

Citations and notes[]

Western Europe • Eastern Europe • Mediterranean and Middle East • Asia and the Pacific • West Africa • East Africa • Atlantic • Americas • Casualties • Military engagements • Conferences • Commanders

Allies (leaders)	Australia • Belgium • Brazil • Canada • China • Czechoslovakia • Ethiopia • Finland (1944–1945) • France • Greece • India • Italy (from September 1943) • Luxembourg • Mexico • Netherlands • New Zealand • Norway • Philippines (Commonwealth) • Poland • South Africa • Soviet Union • United Kingdom • United States • Yugoslavia

Axis and Axis-aligned (leaders)	Bulgaria • 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

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

Prelude	Africa • Asia • Europe

1939	Poland • Phoney War • Winter War • Atlantic • Changsha • China

1940	Weserübung • Netherlands • Belgium • France • Britain • North Africa • West Africa • British Somaliland • Baltic States • Moldova • Indochina • Greece • Compass

1941	• East Africa • Yugoslavia • Yugoslav Front • 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 • Coral Sea • Gazala • Midway • Blue • Stalingrad • Dieppe • El Alamein • Guadalcanal • Torch

1943	Tunisia • Kursk • Smolensk • Solomon Islands • Sicily • Lower Dnieper • Italy • 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 • Gothic Line • Market Garden • Estonia • Crossbow • Pointblank • Lapland • Hungary • Leyte • Ardennes • Philippines (1944–1945) • Burma (1944–1945)

1945	• Bodenplatte • Vistula–Oder • Iwo Jima • 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 • Attacks on North America • Blitzkrieg • Comparative military ranks • Cryptography • Home front • Lend-Lease • Manhattan Project • Military awards • Military equipment • Military production • Nazi plunder • Technology • Total war • Strategic bombing • Bengal famine of 1943

Aftermath	• Effects • Expulsion of Germans • Operation Paperclip • Operation Keelhaul • Occupation of Germany • Morgenthau Plan • Territorial changes of Germany • Soviet occupations • • Romania • • Poland • • Hungary • • Baltic States • Occupation of Japan • First Indochina War • Indonesian National Revolution • Cold War

War crimes	Allied war crimes • • Soviet war crimes • • British war crimes • • United States war crimes • German / Wehrmacht war crimes • • Holocaust • Italian war crimes • Japanese war crimes • • Unit 731 • 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 • Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs • Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union • Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union

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