List of World War II topics - Definition

Military engagements

Major Campaigns

• September Campaign, "Fall Weiss"
• Operation Weserübung
• Fall of France, "Fall Gelb"
• Balkans Campaign, "Unternehmen Marita"
• Operation Barbarossa , the huge "Unternehmen Barbarossa"
• North African Campaign
• Italian Campaign
• Operation Overlord

Battles

• Battle of the border
• Battle of Bory Tucholskie
• Battle of Bzura
• Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski
• Battle of Kock
• Battle of France, "Fall Gelb"
• Battle of Dunkirk, "Dynamo"
• Battle of Britain
• Battle of Crete
• Battle of Smolensk
• Battle of Minsk
• Battle of Kiev
• Battle of Moscow
• Second Battle of Kharkov
• Battle of Stalingrad
• Third Battle of Kharkov
• Battle of Kursk
• Operation Bagration
• First Battle of El Alamein
• Second Battle of El Alamein
• Battle of Normandy, "D-Day" or "Operation Overlord"
• Battle of Tali-Ihantala
• Operation Market Garden, "Battle of Arnhem"
• Battle of Monte Cassino
• Battle of Warsaw, "Warsaw Uprising"
• Battle of Ardennes, "Battle of the Bulge"
• Battle of Hurtgen Forest
• Battle of Seelow Heights
• Battle of Berlin
• Battle of Leyte
• Battle of Peleliu
• Battle of Iwo Jima
• Battle of Okinawa
• Battle of Lugou Bridge
• Battle of Tai er zhuang
• Battle of Changsha
• Battle of Hundred Regiments
• Battle of Milne Bay
• Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan

Sieges

• Siege of Warsaw
• Siege of Leningrad
• Siege of Lwów
• Siege of Modlin
• Siege of Novorossiysk
• Siege of Odessa
• Siege of Sevastopol
• Siege of Tobruk

Naval engagements

• The Battle of the River Plate
• First Battle of Narvik
• Second Battle of Narvik
• Battle of the Atlantic
• Battle of Cape Matapan
• Battle of Pearl Harbor
• Battle of the Coral Sea
• Battle of Midway
• Battle of the Komandorski Islands
• Battle of Guadalcanal
• Battle of Leyte Gulf

Major bombing campaigns

• Warsaw
• Rotterdam
• Coventry
• London "The Blitz" and the V1 and V2 campaigns
• Baedeker raids
• Pearl Harbor
• Stalingrad 23 August 1942
• Helsinki February 1944, was mostly ineffective due to air defence and deception.
• Tallinn February - March 1944. Bombed by Soviet ADD. Large-scale damage.
• Narva March 1944. Evacuated town was destroyed by Soviet ADD.
• Tokyo bombed several times
• Hamburg
• Kassel
• Rostock Heinckel Airplane Construction Plant, Seaport, and City
• Lübeck
• Dresden
• Hiroshima One nuclear weapon dropped from a B-29, devastating a city.
• Nagasaki One nuclear weapon dropped from a B-29, devastating a city.
• Chungking

See also

• Strategic bombing survey for the overall impact of the bombing.

Defensive lines

• Atlantic Wall
• Gustav Line
• Maginot Line
• Mannerheim Line
• Siegfried Line
• GHQ Line
• Taunton Stop Line

Political and social aspects of the war

• Appeasement
• Occupation of Denmark
• Netherlands in World War II
• German children 1933-1945
• Nazi children in the times of peace
• Gold Star Mothers Club for those mothers who lost their children, KIA
• United States Political Leadership in World War II

Production and logistics

The Axis lost, at least partly because the Allies, after the USA's and the Soviet Union's entrance into the war, had greater productive resources, and were able to turn these resources into greater numbers of soldiers and weapons than the Axis. This was further compounded by the comparative lack of equipment standardization among the Axis forces and its failure to use its large territorial (and associated resources) gains in an economy on war footing. For instance Nazi Germany was the only war economy which largely didn't make use of the labour of women.

• American tank production during World War II
• German tank production during World War II
• Soviet tank production during World War II
• WW2 aircraft production
• US weapon production (1942-1945)

Common military awards

Soviet Union

• Hero of the Soviet Union
• Order of Lenin
• Order of Suvorov
• Order of the October Revolution
• Order of the Red Banner
• Order of Victory

In Soviet Union orders and medals were also awarded to cities and military divisions.

United States

• Medal of Honor
• Silver Star
• Bronze Star Medal
• Distinguished Flying Cross
• Air Medal
• World War II Victory Medal
• Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
• European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
• American Campaign Medal

United Kingdom

• Victoria Cross
• Air Force Cross
• Order of the Bath
• Order of the British Empire
• Distinguished Flying Cross
• Africa Star
• Pacific Star

France and Belgium

• Croix de Guerre

Poland

• Cross of the Valorous
• Order of Polonia Restituta
• Virtuti Militari

Nazi Germany

• Iron Cross

Related articles

• Axis Powers
• British Women's Land Army
• The Dambusters raid
• Continuation War
• Deutsches Afrika Korps
• Devil's Brigade
• Female roles in the world wars
• Free French Forces
• Generalplan Ost
• Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei)
• Holocaust
• Italian aircraft production 1935 to 1945
• Lapland War
• Operation Shingle
• Polish contribution to World War II
• Potsdam Agreement
• Pursuit of Nazi collaborators
• Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
• Sonderaktion Krakau
• Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.)
• Timeline of the Second World War
• World War

Lists

• List of World War II Theatres and Campaigns
• List of countries involved in World War II
• List of World War II casualties by country
• List of people associated with World War II
• List of World War II Veterans
• List of equipment used in World War II
• List of units using the B-26 Marauder during World War II
• List of World War II aces by country
• Glossary of WWII German military terms
• List of Italian fighter aces of World War II