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World War II
- European Theatre
  - European-Atlantic Theatre of World War II
    - Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatre of World War II
      - North African Campaign
        Western Desert Campaign
        Operation Battleaxe
- Asia-Pacific Theatre

Soviet-German War

Phase	Start date	End date	Actions
Operation Barbarossa	1941-06-22	1941-12-04	Białystok-Minsk (Jun 22 – June 29) Finnish offensive (Jun 25 – Dec 6) Raseiniai (Jun 23 – Jun 27) Brody (Jun 26 – Jun 30) Smolensk (Jul 6 – Aug 5) Uman (Jul 15 – Aug 8) Odessa (Aug 8 – Oct 16) Kiev (Aug 23 – Sep 26) Yelna (Aug 30 – Sep 8) Leningrad (Sep 8 – Jan 27 1944) Moscow (Oct 2 – Jan 7 1942) Sevastopol (Oct 30 1941 – Jul 4 1942) Rostov (Nov 21 - Nov 27)
First Soviet winter counter-offensive	1941-12-05	1942-05-07	Moscow (Oct 2 1941 – Jan 7)
German offensive of 1942	1942-05-08	1942-11-18	Sevastopol (Oct 30 1941 – Jul 4) Kerch Peninsula (May 8 - May 18) Kharkov (May 12 - May 28) Case Blue (Jun 28 - Sep 3) Operation Edelweiss (Jul 23 - Oct 16) Stalingrad (Sep 3 - Feb 2 1943)
Second Soviet winter counter-offensive	1942-11-19	1943-07-03	Operation Uranus (Nov 19 — Feb 2) Operation Mars (Nov 25 - Dec 20) Operation Winter Storm (Dec 12 - Dec 29) Operation Little Saturn (Dec 16 - Dec 30) Operation Spark (Jan 12 — Jan 30) Operation Star (Feb 2 — Mar 23) Operation Polar Star (Feb 15 - Mar 19)
Third German offensive and Soviet counter-offensive	1943-07-04	1944-06-08	Battle of Kursk (Jul 4 – Aug 23) Dnieper (Aug 24 — Dec 23) Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket (Jan 24 – Feb 16) Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket (March 25 – Apr 15) Battle of Târgul Frumos (May 2 – May 7)
Soviet push to Germany	1944-06-09	1945-01-11	Fourth strategic offensive (Jun 9 — Aug 4) Operation Bagration (Jun 22 — Aug 19) Lvov-Sandomierz (Jul 13 – Jul 29) Lublin-Brest (18 Jul – 2 Aug) Iassy-Kishinev (Aug 20 – Sep 7) Battle of Debrecen (Oct 6 – Oct 28) Battle of Budapest (Oct 29 – Feb 13)
Soviet invasion of Germany	1945-01-12	1945-05-11	Vistula-Oder (Jan 12 - Feb 2) East Prussia (Jan 13 – May 9) East Pomerania (Feb 10 - Apr 4) Solstice (Feb 15 - Feb 18) Operation Spring Awakening (Mar 6 - Mar 16) Vienna (Apr 2 — Apr 13) Berlin (Apr 16 – May 2) Prague (May 5 - May 11)

European-Atlantic Theatre of World War II

Phase	Start date	End date	Actions
German Blitzkrieg on Europe	1939-09-01	1940-06-25	German invasion of Poland (Sep 1 – Oct 6) Saar (Sep 7 – Sep 12) Norway (Apr 9 – Jun 10) France (May 10 – Jun 25) Malta (Jun 11 - Nov 20 1942) Mers-el-Kébir (Jul 3)
Axis triumphant	1940-06-26	1940-11-07	First Happy Time (July – Oct) Calabria (Jul 9) Britain (Jul 10 – Oct 31) Italian conquest of British Somaliland (Aug 3 – Aug 17) Italian invasion of Egypt (Sep 13 – Sep 17) Dakar (Sep 23 – Sep 25) Italian invasion of Greece (Oct 28 – Nov 9)
Ebb and flow	1940-11-08	1942-10-22	Gabon (Nov 8 – Nov 12) Taranto (Nov 12) Greek counter-offensive (Nov 14 – Jan 10) Operation Compass (Dec 10 – Feb 9) Stalemate in Greece (Jan 11 – Apr 5) British capture of Italian East Africa (Jan 18 – May 18) Axis desert offensive (Mar 24 – Apr 15) Cape Matapan (Mar 27 – Mar 29) Greece (Apr 6 – Apr 30) Tobruk (Apr 10 - Nov 27) Anglo-Iraqi War (Apr 18 – May 30) Operation Brevity (May 15 - May 26) Crete (May 20 – Jun 1) Syria-Lebanon (Jun 8 – Jul 14) Operation Battleaxe (Jun 15 – Jun 17) Operation Crusader (Nov 18 – Dec 30) Second Happy Time (Jan 14 – Apr 14) 2nd Axis desert offensive (Jan 21 – Jul 27) St. Nazaire Raid (Mar 28) Battle of Madagascar (May 5 – Nov 6) Operation Pedestal (Aug 9) Dieppe Raid (Aug 19) Alam el Halfa (Aug 30 – Sep 5)
The Western Allies take the initiative	1942-10-23	1944-06-04	Second Battle of El Alamein (Oct 23 – Nov 5) Operation Torch (Nov 8) Tunisia Campaign (Nov 17 – May 13) Allied invasion of Sicily (Jul 9 – Aug 17) Allied invasion of Italy (Sep 3 – Sep 16) Allied advance to Rome (Sep 17 – Jun 4) Dodecanese (Sep 8 – Nov 22) Big Week (Feb 20 – Feb 25)
The Axis crumble	1944-06-05	1945-05-08	Allied push to northern Italy (Jun 5 – Apr 29) Operation Overlord (Jun 6 – Aug 25) Operation Dragoon (Aug 15) Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine (Aug 26 – Dec 15) Battle of the Bulge (Dec 15 – Jan 25) Allied advance from the Siegfried Line into Central Europe (Jan 25 – May 8)

Battle of the Atlantic

Phase	Start date	End date	Actions
Initial skirmishes	1939-09	1940-05	Battle of the River Plate (13 Dec) Altmark Incident (16 Feb)
First Happy Time	1940-06	1941-03	Convoy SC-7 (Oct 16) Operation Berlin (Jan 22 - Mar 21)
Ebb and flow	1941-04	1941-12	Operation Rhine Exercise (May 18 - 27)
Second Happy Time	1942-01	1942-08	Operation Cerberus (Feb 11 - 13) Convoy PQ-17 (June - July)
Axis lose the advantage	1942-09	1943-05	Battle of the Barents Sea (Dec 31) Black May (1943)
Allies control the ocean	1943-06	1945-05	Battle of North Cape (Dec 26, 1943)

Mediterranean-Middle East-Africa Theatre of World War II

Battle of the Mediterranean

Phase	Start date	End date	Actions
The Commonwealth take the advantage	1940-06-11	1941-01-05	Battle of the Espero Convoy (Jun 28) Attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Jul 3) Battle of Calabria (Jul 9) Battle of Cape Spada (Jul 19) Battle of Taranto (Nov 11) Battle of Cape Spartivento (Nov 27)
Germany comes to Italy's assistance	1941-01-06	1942-11-07	Operation Excess (Jan 6 - 11) Battle of Cape Matapan (Mar 27) Battle of the Tarigo Convoy (Apr 16) Battle of Crete (May 20 – Jun 1) Operation Substance (Jul 23) Operation Halberd (Sep 24 - 28) Battle of the Duisburg Convoy (Nov 8) Battle of Cape Bon (Dec 13) First Battle of Sirte (Dec 17) Alexandria raid (Dec 19) Second Battle of Sirte (Mar 22) Operation Harpoon (1942) (Jun 12) Operation Vigorous (Jun 12) Operation Pedestal (Aug 9) Operation Agreement (Sep 13)
The Allies take control of the Mediterranean	1941-11-08	1943-11-07	Operation Torch (Nov 8) Operation Stone Age (Nov 20) Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon (Nov 27) Battle of Skerki Bank (Dec 1) Operation Portcullis (Dec 5) Battle of the Cigno Convoy (Apr 16) Allied invasion of Sicily (Jul 9)

North African Campaign

Western Desert Campaign

Phase	Start date	End date	Actions
Initial raids and the Italian invasion of Egypt	1940-06-11	1940-09-17
Operation Compass	1940-12-10	1941-02-09
Axis western desert offensive (1941)	1941-03-24	1941-04-15
Stalemate	1941-04-16	1941-11-17	Siege of Tobruk Operation Brevity Operation Battleaxe
Operation Crusader	1941-11-18	1941-12-30
Axis western desert offensive (1942)	1942-01-21	1942-09-05	Advance to the Gazala Line (Jan 21 - Feb 4) Battle of Gazala (May 26 - June 21) First Battle of El Alamein (July 1 – July 27) Battle of Alam el Halfa (Aug 30 – Sep 5)
Allied western desert offensive (1942-1943)	1942-10-23	1942-01-26	Second Battle of El Alamein (Oct 23 – Nov 5) Axis withdrawal to Tunisia (Nov 6 - Jan 26)

Strategic bombing

Raiding operations

Action	Date
St. Nazaire Raid	1942-03-28
Dieppe Raid	1942-08-19

Asia-Pacific Theatre of World War II

Phase	Start date	End date	Actions
Japanese invasion of China	1937-07-07	1938-10-27	Marco Polo Bridge (Jul 7 - Jul 8) Shanghai (Aug 13 - Nov 26) Taiyuan (Sep 1 - Nov 9) Xinkou (Sep 13 - Nov 11) Nanking (Dec 9 - Dec 13) Xuzhou (Mar 24 - May 1) 1938 Yellow River flood (Jun 9) Wuhan (Jun 11 – Oct 27) Lake Khasan (Jul 29 - Aug 11)
Stalemate in China	1938-10-28	1941-12-06	Nanchang (Mar 17 - May 9 1939) Khalkin Gol (May 11 - Sep 16) Changsha (Sep 13 – Oct 8 1939) Hundred Regiments Offensive (Aug 20 – Dec 5 1940) French Indochina (Sep 22 – Sep 26 1940)
Japanese expansion	1941-12-07	1942-05-26	Pearl Harbor (Dec 8) Guam (Dec 8) Gilbert Islands (Dec 8 - Dec 10) Wake Island (Dec 8 - Dec 23) Thailand (Dec 8) Malaya (Dec 8 - Jan 31) Hong Kong (Dec 8 - Dec 25) Philippines (Dec 8 – May 8) Burma (Dec 12 - May 26) Netherlands East Indies (Dec 16 – Mar 8) Rabaul (Jan 23) Singapore (Feb 7 - Feb 15) Darwin (Feb 19) Doolittle Raid (Apr 18) Tulagi (May 3 – May 4) Coral Sea (May 4 – May 8)
The Allies take the initiative	1942-05-27	1943-02-09	Midway (Jun 4 – Jun 7) Japanese invasion of the Aleutians (Jun 6) Kokoda Track (Jul 21 - Jan 22) Guadalcanal (Aug 7 – Feb 9)
Allies close in	1943-02-10	1944-10-19	Allied recapture of the Aleutians (May 11 - Aug 7) Operation Cartwheel (Jun 30 1943 – Mar 20 1944) Renewed fighting in Burma (Mid-Nov 43 - Aug 3 44) Gilbert and Marshall Islands (Nov 20 1943 - Feb 23 1944) Operation Hailstone (Feb 17 - Feb 18) Operation Ichi-Go (Apr 17 – Dec 10 1944) Mariana and Palau Islands (Jun 15 – Sep 30 1944) Allied re-conquest of Burma (Aug 4 44 - Aug 14 45)
Japan defeated	1944-10-20	1945-09-02	Operation Ichi-Go (Apr 17 – Dec 10 1944) Allied re-conquest of Burma (Aug 4 44 - Aug 14 45) Philippines (Oct 20 1944 – Sep 2 1945) Iwo Jima (Feb 16 - Mar 26 1945) Second French Indochina (Mar 9) Okinawa (Apr 1 - Jun 21) Operation Ten-Go (Apr 7) Tokyo Bay (Jul 22 - Jul 23) Atomic bombings (Aug 6 - Aug 9) Operation August Storm (Aug 8 – Sep 2) Surrender of Japan (Sep 2)