List of theaters and campaigns of World War II
The List of theatres and campaigns of World War II subdivides military operations of World War II and contemporary wars by war, then by theater and then by campaign.
Pre–World War II
Asia
- Japanese invasion of Manchuria (September 18, 1931 – February 26, 1932)
- January 28 incident (January 28 – March 3, 1932)
- Defense of the Great Wall (January 1 – May 31, 1933)
- Action in Inner Mongolia (May 26 – October, 1933)
- Suiyuan campaign (October – November 1936)
- Soviet-Japanese Border War (May 11 – September 16, 1939)
- Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – December 7, 1941)
Europe and Africa
- Second Italo-Abyssinian War (October 3, 1935 – February 19, 1937)
- Spanish Civil War (July 17, 1936 – April 1, 1939)
- S-Plan (January 16, 1939 – March 1940)
- Slovak-Hungarian War (March 23 – 31, 1939)
- Italian invasion of Albania (April 7–12, 1939)
Campaigns
European Theatre
Nordic Front
- List of military operations in the Nordic countries during World War II
- Invasion of Finland (November 1939-March 1940)
- Invasion of Denmark and Norway (April–June 1940)
- Continuation war (June 25, 1941 – September 19, 1944)
- Lapland War (October 1, 1944 – April 25, 1945)
Western Front
- Phony War (Oct 1939-April 1940)
- Battle of France (with Benelux countries/Fall Gelb) (May–June 1940)
- Battle of Britain ( + Operation Sea Lion Unternehmen Seelöwe ) (July–October 1940)
- Western Front (1944–1945)
- Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) commanded Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until May 1945.
- Battle of Normandy (June–August 1944)
- Northern France Campaign (July–September 1944)
- Southern France Campaign (Operation Dragoon) (August–September 1944)
- Battle of the Siegfried Line (Rhineland Campaign, Ardennes-Alsace Campaign) (August–December 1944)
- Central Europe Campaign (March–May 1945)
Eastern Front
- Battle of Poland (Operation Fall Weiß) (1939)
- Winter War (Russo-Finnish War) (November 30, 1939 – March 13, 1940)
- Eastern Front (initially Operation Barbarossa) (June 1941 to May 1945)
- Continuation War (Finland) (June 1941-September 1944)
Mediterranean, African and Middle East Theatre
- Allied Force Headquarters (AFHQ), controlled all forces in the Mediterranean Theatre late 1942 to May 1945.
- East African Campaign
- North African Campaign
- Western Desert Campaign
- Tunisia Campaign
- 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)
- World War II in Yugoslavia (April 1941 to May 1945)
- Anglo-Iraqi War
- Syria-Lebanon campaign
- Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
- Italy (July 1943-May 1945)
Pacific-Asian Theatre
- Second Sino-Japanese War (December 8, 1941 – September 9, 1945)
- Pacific War
- 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
- Japan
- Soviet-Japanese War (1945)
- Soviet Manchurian Campaign (1945)
Other theatres
- Americas
- Australia
- Arctic and Antarctica
- West Africa (1940)
- Madagascar (1942)
Naval wars
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Arctic Convoys (Operation Rösselsprung)
- Battle of the Mediterranean
- Battle of the Indian Ocean
Contemporary wars
- Chinese Civil War (April 12, 1927 – May 1, 1950)
- Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – December 7, 1941)
- S-Plan (January 16, 1939 - March, 1940)
- Soviet-Japanese Border War (May 11, 1939 – September 16, 1939)
- French-Thai War (September 1, 1940 – May 9, 1941)
- Ecuadorian–Peruvian War (July 5, 1941 – January 31, 1942)
- Northern Campaign (September 2, 1942 - December, 1944)
- Greek Civil War (December 3, 1944 – October 16, 1949)
- Afghan tribal revolts (April 1944 – 11 January 1947)
See also
- Theaters and campaigns of World War II
- Campaigns of World War II
- Military operations of World War II
- World War II-related lists
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