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The following is a list of battles World War II History -- Military history -- Lists of battles This is a partial list of battles that have entries in Wikipedia. ...
World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: Immense human sacrifice, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons - the atom bomb being the ultimate. ...
1938 Battle of Lake Khasan 1939 Battle of Halhin Gol 1939 Poland September 1 - October 6 - Start of World War II in Europe (see: Polish September Campaign for details) 1939 Battle of the River Plate December 13 - Admiral Graf Spee 1939 Battle of Suomussalmi December 8 - January 7 , 1940 - Winter War 1939 Battle of Tolvajärvi December 12 - Winter War 1940 - 1945 Battle of the Atlantic - the name given to the conflicts in the Atlantic Ocean throughout World War II.1940 Battle of Honkaniemi February 26 - Only tank action of the Winter War .1940 Battle of Narvik April 9 - June 10 - A minor Allied victory in the arctic.1940 Battle at the Afsluitdijk May 10 - May 14 1940 Battle of France May 9 - May 15 - Germany take France, Expeditionary Force and French Army Defeated1940 Battle of Dunkirk May 27 - June 5 - Escape of defeated British Expeditonary Force1940 Battle of Britain July 9 - October 31 Germans try to bomb Britain into submission - RAF answers with fighters1940 Battle of Taranto November 11 -November 12 - British carrier based planes destroy Italian fleet in Taranto Harbor.1940 Battle of Hundred Regiments - Major engagement of the Chinese Communist Army against the Japanese Imperial Army in August and September.1941 Battle of Cape Matapan March 28 - British fleet defeats Italian fleet.1941 Battle of Denmark Strait May 23 - Bismarck Hood 1941 Battle of Greece April 6 - April 24 - Germany takes the Balkan Peninsula after Italian Stalemate.1941 Battle of Crete May 20 - June 1 - Paratroops capture Crete, suffer many casualties.1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22 - German invasion of the Soviet Union1941 Battle of Smolensk July 10 -September 10 First major, temporary, German reverses before Soviet counterattacks.1941 -1942 Battle of Moscow Soviet defenders drive back German Army Group Centre1941 Battle of Pearl Harbor December 7 - Japanese destroy US Fleet in surprise attack1941 Battle of Singapore December 10 - Japanese torpedo craft sunk HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.1942 Battle of Macassar Strait January - US and Dutch forces attack Japanese convoy1942 Dražgoše January 9 - First frontal engagement on Slovenian soil with the German occupier1942 Battle of the Java Sea February 4 - March 1 Japanese wipe out Allied naval squadron1942 Japanese Raids into Indian Ocean March 31 - Japanese Raids against the British Eastern Fleet. Heavy British losses.1942 Battle of Corregidor April 9 - General Wainwright 's troops surrender, forced on Bataan Death March1942 Battle of Nanos April 18 - 800 Italian soldiers lay siege to 50 Slovene partisans.1942 Battle of the Coral Sea May 4 - First aircraft-carrier on aircraft-carrier battle. US loses USS Lexington ; Japanese win tactically but lose strategically.1942 Battle of Bir-Hakeim May 26 -June 11 - Battle during which 1st Free French Brigade of general Koenig, stopped during 14 days in Libyan desert 4 Axis Divisions, and so prevented Rommel offensive towards Suez success, by giving routed 8th British Army time enough to stop retreat on El Alamein fortified line.1942 Battle of Midway June 3 - US loses USS Yorktown ; Japanese lose four aircraft carriers1942 Convoy PQ-17 - 27 ships leave Iceland on June 17 for Murmansk – on July 5 10 ships reach Murmansk1942 First Battle of El Alamein July 1 - British Eighth Army stops Rommel 's Axis forces invading Egypt1942 Battle of Sevastopol July 2 - Captured by Germans after eight month siege1942 Battle of Changsha - Chinese claim victory over Japanese1942 Kokoda Track Campaign July 22 - 13 November - Australians slow down Japanese offensive against Port Morsby , cause Japanese overextension and attrition losses; drive them back.1942 Battle of Guadalcanal August 8 - Beginning of Allied action in Solomon Islands 1942 Battle of Savo Island August 9 - Japanese sink four US cruisers1942 Battle of Dieppe August 19 - "Operation Jubilee" was an Allied attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe in France. Allied Failure ,Information used for D-Day.1942 Battle of Stalingrad August 22 - February 2 , 1943 - 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.1942 Battle of the Eastern Solomons August 24 - Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho sunk1942 Battle of Milne Bay , Papua New Guinea August 25 First time japanese landing force had been driven back into sea.1942 Battle of Bloody Ridge September 12 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance October 11 - near Guadalcanal1942 Second Battle of El Alamein October 23 - November 4 - Montgomery 's Eighth Army forces Rommel out of Egypt1942 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands October 25 - near Guadalcanal, USS Hornet sunk, but Japanese withdraw victorious1942 Operation Torch November 8 - Allied landings in North Africa and successfull Putsch of French Resistance in Algiers to prevent vichyst forces opposition.1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal November 12 - US defeats Japan. Turning Point1942 Battle of Tassafaronga November 30 - off Guadalcanal1943 Battle of Osankarica January 8 - Over 200 Germans massacred all 69 men and women of the Pohorje battalion. Germans lost 19 men and had 31 wounded1943 Battle of Rennell Island January 29 -30 - Japanese bombers sink a cruiser1943 Battle of Guadalcanal February 8 - Allies take the island1943 Battle of the Kasserine Pass February 14 - 25 - Battle between US and German armored forces in Tunisia 1943 Battle of Bismarck Sea March 2 - US sinks Japanese transports1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 18 - 5000 Jews and 5000 Germans die, Jews confined1943 Battle of Castle Turjak September 19 - Slovene partisans took the castle guarded by the Slovene village sentries1943 Battle of Kursk July - Germans attack Kursk salient at Orel and Belgorod; Russians drive them back; arguably the largest tank battle ever fought. Heavy Losses1943 Raid on Schweinfurt October 14 - The greatest Air battle among the Luftwaffe and the USAF. The famous Air Battle known as "Black Thursday."1944 Battle of Cisterna January 29 - Part of Operation Shingle - the 1st, 3rd, and 4th US Army Ranger battalions attempted to capture the town of Cisterna.1944 Battle of Monte Cassino May 11 - 18 1944 Battle of Normandy June 6 - August 25 - Allies invade northern France across the Normandy beaches (Operation Overlord ); hard fighting from Cherbourg to Caen; Germans surrounded and destroyed at Falaise1944 Battle of Philippine Sea June 19 - Major carrier battle; US lose 123 planes and destroy 315 Japanese planes1944 Marianas Campaign - US invasions of Saipan , June 15 , Guam July 21 , and Tinian July 24 1944 Operation Bagration June 22 - Eastern Front - Soviet offensive destroys German Army Group Center.1944 Battle of Fontenay June 25 1944 Battle of Tali-Ihantala June 25 - July 10 - Finnish stop Soviet offensive1944 Warsaw Uprising August 1 - October 5 - 20.000 armed Poles against 55.000 Wehrmacht and SS . City destroyed in 90%, more than 250.000 casualties.1944 Operation Dragoon (a.k.a. Operation Anvil ) August 15 - Allied invasion of Southern France1944 Battle of Peleliu September 17 - A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific .1944 Battle of Arnhem September 17 - 26 - The major battle of Operation Market Garden ; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed1944 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.1944 Hürtgen Forest October 6 - Stubborn German defence, appalling loses to US army1944 Battle of Aachen - October. Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during WW II.1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf October 23 - 26 - The largest air-sea battle in history.1944 Operation Queen November 16 1944 Battle of Monte Castello November 25 - February 12 , 1945 - Brazilian troops fight Germans in Italy1944 Battle of the Bulge December 16 - January 27 , 1945 - German counterattack in Ardennes ; General McAuliffe says "NUTS" at Bastogne1945 Operation Elephant January 26 - Allied offensive in Netherlands 1945 Operation Spring Awakening March 6 - March 15 - German counterattack in Hungary 1945 Battle of Mindanao March 10 - US invasion of the Philippines1945 Battle of Iwo Jima March 26 - After a month, US takes the island1945 Operation Varsity March 17 - 134 Allied gliders land troops in Weisel1945 Battle of Berlin April 26 - May 2 - Soviet forces encircle and capture German capital; Hitler commits suicide1945 Battle of Triest April 30 - May 2 - British army and Yugoslav capture the city1945 Battle of Poljana - Last battle of World War II in Europe1945 Battle of Okinawa June 21 - US takes Japanese Island in the Ryukyus; many casualties to both sides.1945 Battle of Manchuria August Soviet forces liberate manchuria
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BIGpedia - World War II - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online (6395 words)
World War II was a global conflict that started in 7 July 1937 in Asia and 1 September 1939 in Europe and lasted until 1945 , involving the majority of the world's states and every inhabited continent. On which date the war began is also debated, cited as either the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 , the Japanese invasion of China on 7 July 1937 (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War ), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The belligerents of the Second World War are usually considered to belong to either of the two blocks: the Axis and the Allies.
World War II (2935 words)
World War II , also known as the Second World War , was a war fought from 1939 to 1945 in Europe and, during much of the 1930s and 1940s, in Asia. The war was also fought in Africa, and included a handful of incidents in the Americas along with several naval battles in the world's various oceans. It was the largest armed conflict in history, spanning the entire world and involving more countries than any previous war , as well as introducing powerful new weapons, culminating in the first use of atomic bombs, whose very existence had been a tightly-held secret.
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