List of theaters and campaigns of World War II

List of theaters and campaigns of World War II

Pre-World War II

* Second Italo-Abyssinian War
* Spanish Civil War
* Soviet-Japanese Border War (1939)

Campaigns and theatres of World War II


= European Theatre =

* Blitzkrieg
** Battle of Poland ("Operation Fall Weiss") (1939)
** Phony War
** Invasion of Denmark and Norway (April-June 1940)
** Battle of France ("Fall Gelb") (May-June 1940)
** Battle of Britain ( + Operation Sealion "Unternehmen Seelöwe" ) (July-October 1940)
** 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)
* Eastern Front ("initially Operation Barbarossa") (June 1941 to May 1945)
* Western Front (1944–1945)
** Battle of Normandy (ETO: "Normandy Campaign") (June-August 1944)
** Northern France Campaign (July-September 1944)
** Southern France Campaign ("Operation Dragoon") (August-September 1944)
** Battle of the Siegfried Line (ETO: "Rhineland Campaign", "Ardennes-Alsace Campaign") (August-December 1944)
** Central Europe Campaign (March-May 1945)


=Pacific Asian Theatre=

* Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
* 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
* Soviet Manchurian Campaign 1945


=Middle East Theatre=

* Middle East Campaign
**Anglo-Iraqi War
**Syria-Lebanon campaign
**Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
* East African Campaign
* Western Desert Campaign

Mediterranean Theatre

* North African Campaign
** Tunisia Campaign
* Italian Campaign (World War II)

African Theatre

* East African Campaign
* North African Campaign
* West African campaign 1940
* Battle of Madagascar 1942

Naval wars

* Battle of the Atlantic
** Arctic Convoys ("operation Rösselsprung")
* Battle of the Mediterranean
* Battle of the Indian Ocean

trategic Air Campaigns

* Strategic Bombing During World War II

Contemporary wars

* Chinese Civil War
* Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
* Soviet-Japanese Border War (1939) (May 11 - September 16, 1939)
* Winter War ("Russo-Finnish War") (November 30, 1939March 13, 1940)
* Anglo-Iraqi War (18 April30 May 1941)
* French-Thai War (October, 1940 - May 9, 1941)
* Continuation War (25 June 194119 September 1944)
* Lapland War (October 1 1944April 25 1945)
* Greek Civil War (December 1944 - October 16, 1949)

ee also

* Campaigns of World War II
* List of operations and projects (military and non-military)


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