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World War II
Western Europe · Eastern Europe · China · Africa · Mediterranean · Asia and the Pacific · Atlantic
Major participants			Timeline		Aspects
To 1945 unless otherwise indicated. Principal co-belligerents in italics.			Prelude • Causes • in Asia • Invasion of China • in Europe 1939 • Invasion of Poland • Phoney War • Invasion of Finland • Battle of the Atlantic³ 1940 • Denmark and Norway • Battle of France • Battle of Britain • Occupation of Baltic states • Bessarabia and Bukovina • Invasion of Indochina • Invasion of Greece 1941 • Invasion of Yugoslavia • Invasion of the USSR • Invasion of Iran • Attack on Pearl Harbor 1942 • Battle of Midway • Battle of Stalingrad • 2nd Battle of El Alamein	1943 • End in Africa • Battle of Kursk • Guadalcanal campaign • Allied invasion of Italy 1944 • Battle of Normandy • Operation Bagration • Battle of Romania • Liberation of Paris • Operation Market Garden • Battle of Leyte Gulf 1945 • Battle of Okinawa • Battle of Berlin • Surrender of Germany • Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Surrender of Japan • more military engagements Aftermath • Effects • Casualties • Expulsion of Germans • Division of Germany • Morgenthau plan • Territorial changes • Occupation of Japan • Cold War • in contemporary culture	• Attacks on North America • Blitzkrieg • Comparative military ranks • Cryptography • Home front • Military awards • Military equipment • Military production • Resistance • Technology • Total war Civilian impact and atrocities • Allied war crimes • Bataan Death March • Bengal famine of 1943 • Comfort women • Dutch famine of 1944 • German war crimes • Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Hibakusha • Himeyuri Students • Holocaust • Japanese war crimes • Nanking Massacre • Siege of Leningrad • Sook Ching massacre • Soviet war crimes • Strategic bombings • Unit 731 • Vietnamese famine of 1945
Allies		Axis
at war from 1937 China entered 1939 Poland UK France Australia New Zealand South Africa Canada entered 1940 Norway Belgium Netherlands Greece	entered 1941 Yugoslavia USSR USA entered 1942 Brazil entered 1943 Italy entered 1944 Romania Bulgaria Finland • others	at war from 1937 Japan entered 1939 Germany Slovakia entered 1940 Italy (to 1943) entered 1941 Bulgaria (to 1944) Hungary Romania (to 1944) Finland (to 1944) entered 1942 Thailand • others
Resistance movements Austria · Baltic¹ · Czechoslovakia · Denmark · Ethiopia · France · Germany · Greece · Italy · Jewish · Netherlands · Norway · Poland · Thailand · USSR · Ukraine² · Vietnam · Yugoslavia · others
			¹ Anti-Soviet. ² Anti-German, anti-Soviet, and anti-Polish. ³ Lasted the entire war (to May 1945).

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