Prelude
? Causes
? in Asia
? in Europe

1939
? Invasion of Poland
? Phoney War
? Winter War
? Battle of the Atlantic ⁵

1940
? Denmark and Norway
? Battle of France
? Battle of Britain
? Libya and Egypt
? British Somaliland
? Baltic Occupation
? Bessarabia and Bukovina
? Invasion of Indochina
? Invasion of Greece

1941
? East Africa Campaign
? Invasion of Yugoslavia
? Invasion of the USSR
? Middle East campaign
? Siege of Leningrad
? Battle of Moscow
? Attack on Pearl Harbor

1942
? Battle of Midway
? Battle of Stalingrad
? 2nd Battle of El Alamein
? Operation Torch
? Guadalcanal Campaign

1943
? End in Africa
? Battle of Kursk
? Solomon Islands
? Invasion of Sicily
? Invasion of Italy ⁵
? Gilbert and Marshall Islands

1944
? Cassino and Anzio
? Invasion of Normandy
? Mariana and Palau Islands
? Operation Bagration
? Battle of the Dnieper
? Warsaw Uprising
? Iassy-Kishinev Operation
? Liberation of Paris
? Operation Market Garden
? Operation Crossbow
? Operation Pointblank
? Battle of Leyte Gulf

1945
? Battle of Iwo Jima
? Battle of Okinawa
? Battle of Berlin
? Germany surrenders
? Hiroshima and Nagasaki
? Japan surrenders

? List of military engagements of World War II

Aftermath and Consequences
? Effects / Casualties
? Expulsion of Germans
? Operation Paperclip
? Occupation of Germany
? Morgenthau plan
? Territorial changes
? Occupation of Japan
? Franco-Vietnamese War
? Cold War
? in contemporary culture

? Attacks on North America
? Blitzkrieg
? Comparative military ranks
? Cryptography
? Home front
? Military awards
? Military equipment
? Military production
? Nazi plunder
? Resistance
? Technology
? Total war

Civilian impact and atrocities
? Allied war crimes
? German war crimes
? Italian war crimes
? Japanese war crimes
? Soviet war crimes
? The Holocaust
? Bombing of civilians

at war from 1937
  China

entered 1939
  Poland
?лг?:Country data UK   UK
  India
  France
  Australia
  New Zealand
  South Africa
  Canada

entered 1940
  Norway
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Greece

entered 1941
  Yugoslavia
  USSR
  USA
  Czechoslovakia

at war from 1937
?лг?:Country data Empire of Japan   Japan

entered 1939
  Germany
  Slovakia

entered 1940
  Italy   (to 1943)

entered 1941
  Bulgaria   (to 1944)
Croatia
Finland   (to 1944)
  Hungary
  Iraq   (to 1941)
  Romania   (to 1944)

entered 1942
  Thailand

entered 1943
  RSI

? others

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