entered 1939 Poland UK India France Australia New Zealand South Africa Canada
entered 1940 Norway Belgium Netherlands Greece
entered 1941 Yugoslavia USSR USA Czechoslovakia
entered 1942 Mexico Brazil
entered 1943 Italy
entered 1944 Romania Bulgaria Finland
• others
• Allied Leaders • Axis Leaders • Commanders
Austria · Baltic1 · Bessarabia1 · Czech lands · Denmark · Ethiopia · France · Germany · Greece · Italy · Jewish · Korea · Netherlands · Moldavia1 · Norway · Poland · Thailand · USSR · Slovakia4 · Ukraine3 · Vietnam · Yugoslavia · others
at war from 1937 Japan Manchukuo
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
1 Anti-Soviet. 2 Anti-Soviet and anti-Nazi. 3 Anti-Nazi, anti-Polish, and anti-Soviet. 4 Anti-Magyar, anti-Nazi, and anti-Soviet. 5 Lasted to May 1945.
Prelude • Causes • in Asia • in Europe
1937 • Invasion of China
1938 • Annexation of Austria • Occupation of Czechoslovakia
1939 • Invasion of Poland • Phoney War • Winter War • Battle of the Atlantic5
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 • 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 Italy5 • Gilbert and Marshall Islands
1944 • Cassino and Anzio • Invasion of Normandy • Mariana and Palau Islands • Belorussia and Ukraine • 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 • Possible World War III
• 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
