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)