Military awards of World War II

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Military awards of World War II were presented by most of the combatants.

The following is from the article World War II, removed from that article for clarity, and represents an incomplete list of some of the awards.

[edit] Allied Powers

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

Allies (Leaders)	Australia Belgium Brazil Canada China Czechoslovakia Ethiopia Finland (1944-1945) France Greece India Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines Poland South Africa Soviet Union United Kingdom United States Yugoslavia

Axis and Axis-aligned (Leaders)	Bulgaria Reorganized National Government of China Croatia Finland Germany Hungary Iraq Italy Italian Social Republic Japan Manchukuo Romania Slovakia Thailand Vichy France

Resistance	Albania Austria Baltic States Belgium Czech lands Denmark Estonia Ethiopia France Germany Greece Hong Kong India Italy Jewish Korea Latvia Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Philippines Poland (Anti-communist) Romania Thailand Soviet Union Slovakia Western Ukraine Vietnam Yugoslavia

Prelude	Africa Asia Europe

1939	Invasion of Poland Phoney War Winter War Atlantic Changsha (1939) China

1940	Weserübung Netherlands Belgium France UK North Africa British Somaliland Baltic States Moldova Indochina Greece Compass

1941	East Africa Invasion of Yugoslavia Yugoslav Front Greece Crete Soviet Union (Barbarossa) Finland Lithuania Middle East Kiev Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran Leningrad Moscow Sevastopol Pearl Harbor Hong Kong Philippines Changsha (1941) Malaya Borneo

1942	Burma Changsha (1942) Coral Sea Gazala Midway Blue Stalingrad Dieppe El Alamein Guadalcanal Torch

1943	End in Africa Kursk Smolensk Solomon Islands Sicily Lower Dnieper Italy Gilbert and Marshall Changde

1944	Monte Cassino and Shingle Narva Cherkassy Tempest Ichi-Go Normandy Mariana and Palau Bagration Western Ukraine Tannenberg Line Warsaw Eastern Romania Yugoslavia Paris Gothic Line Market Garden Estonia Crossbow Pointblank Lapland Hungary Leyte Bulge Burma

1945	Vistula-Oder Iwo Jima Okinawa Surrender of Italy Berlin Czechoslovakia Budapest West Hunan Surrender of Germany Manchuria Philippines Borneo Atomic bombings Surrender of Japan

Aspects

General	Air warfare of World War II Attacks on North America Blitzkrieg Comparative military ranks Cryptography Home front Manhattan Project Military awards Military equipment Military production Nazi plunder Technology Total war Strategic bombing Bengal famine of 1943

Aftermath	Effects Expulsion of Germans Operation Paperclip Operation Keelhaul Occupation of Germany Morgenthau Plan Territorial changes Soviet occupations (Romania, Poland, Hungary, Baltic States) Occupation of Japan First Indochina War Indonesian National Revolution Cold War Decolonization Popular culture

War crimes	German and Wehrmacht war crimes The Holocaust Italian war crimes Japanese war crimes Unit 731 Allied war crimes Soviet war crimes United States war crimes

War rape	German military brothels Camp brothels Rape during the occupation of Japan Comfort women Rape of Nanking Rape during the occupation of Germany

Prisoners	Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union German prisoners of war in the United States Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Japanese prisoners of war in World War II Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union