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Theatres and Campaigns of World War II

Pre–World War II
  • Second Italo-Abyssinian War
  • Spanish Civil War
  • Second Sino-Japanese War
  • Soviet-Japanese Border War (1939)
  • Italian invasion of Albania
  • Slovak-Hungarian War

World War II

European Theatre
Western Front
  • Phony War
  • Invasion of Denmark and Norway (April–June 1940)
  • Battle of France (with Benelux countries/Fall Gelb) (May–June 1940)
  • Battle of Britain ( + Operation Sea Lion Unternehmen Seelöwe ) (July–October 1940)
  • Western Front (1944–1945)
    • Battle of Normandy (June–August 1944)
    • Northern France Campaign (July–September 1944)
    • Southern France Campaign (Operation Dragoon) (August–September 1944)
    • Battle of the Siegfried Line (Rhineland Campaign, Ardennes-Alsace Campaign) (August–December 1944)
    • Central Europe Campaign (March–May 1945)
Eastern Front
  • Battle of Poland (Operation Fall Weiss) (1939)
  • Eastern Front (initially Operation Barbarossa) (June 1941 to May 1945)
  • Finland (June 1941-September 1944)
  • Warsaw Uprising



Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre
  • East African Campaign
  • North African Campaign
    • Western Desert Campaign
    • Tunisia Campaign
  • Invasion of Yugoslavia (Operation Punishment) (April 1941)
  • Battle of Greece (Operation Marita) (October 1940 to April 1941)
  • Battle of Crete (Operation Mercury) (May–June 1941)
  • Yugoslav Front (April 1941 to May 1945)
  • Anglo-Iraqi War
  • Syria-Lebanon campaign
  • Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
  • Italy (July 1943-May 1945)



Pacific Asian Theatre
  • Sino-Japanese War
  • American-British-Dutch-Australian Command
  • Pacific Theater of Operations
    • Pacific Ocean Areas
    • South West Pacific Area
  • South-East Asian Theatre
    • Burma Campaign
    • China Burma India Theatre
  • Japan
  • Soviet Manchurian Campaign 1945



Other Theatres
  • North America
  • Latin America
  • Australia
  • Arctic and Antarctica
  • West Africa 1940
  • Battle of Madagascar 1942



Naval wars
  • Battle of the Atlantic
    • Arctic Convoys (operation Rösselsprung)
  • Battle of the Mediterranean
  • Battle of the Indian Ocean



Air wars
  • Battle of Britain
  • Strategic Bombing During World War II
  • Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki



Contemporary wars
  • Chinese Civil War (April 12, 1927 – May 1, 1950)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945)
  • Soviet-Japanese Border War (May 11, 1939 – September 16, 1939)
  • Winter War (Russo-Finnish War) (November 30, 1939 – March 13, 1940)
  • French-Thai War (September 1, 1940 – May 9, 1941)
  • Continuation War (June 25, 1941 – September 19, 1944)
  • Ecuadorian-Peruvian War (July 5, 1941 – February 13, 1942)
  • Lapland War (October 1, 1944 – April 25, 1945)
  • Greek Civil War (December 3, 1944 – October 16, 1949)
  • Seven Enemy Offensive (September 27, 1941 – June 6, 1944)
  • Anglo-Iraqi War (May 2 – 31, 1941)


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