The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to World War II:
World War II, or the Second World War – global military conflict from 1939 to 1945, which was fought between the Allied powers of the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union against the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan, with their respective allies. Over 60 million people, the majority of them civilians, were killed, making it the deadliest conflict in human history.
Adolf Hitler
Axis vs. Allies
The Holocaust
European Theater
Pacific Theater
Mechanized warfare
Modern warfare
Total war
World War
Adolf Hitler
Events preceding World War II in Asia
Events preceding World War II in Europe
Imperialism
Expansionism
Expansionist nationalism
Lebensraum
Nazi Party
Treaty of Versailles
Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany
Diary of Anne Frank
Nazi book burnings
Nazi concentration camps
Nazi concentration camps in Norway
Nazi eugenics
Nazi human experimentation
Racial policy of Nazi Germany
Auschwitz concentration camp
Allies of World War II (see also Allies)
Major Allied powers
United Kingdom
Soviet Union (June 1941 – 1945)
France (September 1939 – June 1940) / Free French (June 1940 to end of war)
United States (December 1941 – 1945)
Greece
Poland
China
Canada
Minor Allied powers
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Brazil
Axis powers
Major Axis powers
Nazi Germany
Glossary of the Third Reich
Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)
Empire of Japan
Minor Axis powers
Bulgaria
Croatia
Hungary
Romania
Slovak Republic
Kingdom of Yugoslavia (for two days)
Thailand
(For co-belligerents, puppet states, and collaborator states, see Axis Powers).
Invasion of Poland (September 1-October 6, 1939)
Phoney War
Winter War (30 November 1939 – 13 March 1940)
Battle of the Atlantic (September 3, 1939 – May 7, 1945)
Invasion of Denmark and Norway (April 9–June 10, 1940)
Invasion of the Low Countries and the fall of France (May 10-June 25, 1940)
Dunkirk evacuation (May 26-June 4, 1940)
Battle of Britain (September 1940)
Operation Barbarossa (Invasion of the Soviet Union, commencing on June 22, 1941)
Siege of Leningrad (September 8, 1941 – January 27, 1944)
Battle of Moscow (October 2, 1941 – January 7, 1942)
Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
Fall of Singapore (February 8–15, 1942)
Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4–8, 1942)
Battle of Midway (June 4–7, 1942)
First Battle of El Alamein (July 1–27, 1942)
Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942 – February 2, 1943)
Dieppe Raid (August 19, 1942)
Second Battle of El Alamein (October 23-November 5, 1942)
Operation Torch (November 8–10, 1942)
Battle of Kursk (July 4-August 23, 1943)
Allied invasion of Sicily (July 9-August 17, 1943)
Allied invasion of Italy (September 3–16, 1943)
Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces (Signed on September 3, declared on September 8, 1943)
Battle of Monte Cassino (January 17-May 18, 1944)
Landings at Anzio (January 22-June 5, 1944)
D-day (June 6, 1944)
Destruction of Army Group Centre (June 22-August 19, 1944)
Invasion of Southern France (August 15, 1944)
Gothic Line (August 25-December 17, 1944)
Operation Market Garden (September 17–25, 1944)
Battle of Hürtgen Forest (September 19, 1944 – February 10, 1945)
Battle of Aachen (October 2–21, 1944)
Battle of the Scheldt (October 2-November 8, 1944)
Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945)
Battle of Berlin (April 16-May 2, 1945)
Victory in Europe Day (May 8, 1945)
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and 9, 1945)
Victory over Japan Day (August 15, 1945)
Timeline of World War II (1939–1945)
Timeline of events preceding World War II
Events preceding World War II in Asia
Events preceding World War II in Europe
Timeline of the invasion of Poland (1939)
Timeline of the Second Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945)
Timeline of the Winter War (1939–1940)
Timeline of the Norwegian Campaign (1940)
Timeline of the North African Campaign (1940–1943)
Timeline of World War II (1939)
Timeline of World War II (1940)
Timeline of World War II (1941)
Timeline of World War II (1942)
Timeline of World War II (1943)
Timeline of World War II (1944)
Timeline of World War II (1945)
Free World (World War II)
World War II theatres, fronts, and campaigns
African campaigns of World War II
Home front during World War II
Mediterranean Theatre of World War II
Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
Timeline of the Eastern Front of World War II
U.S. campaigns in WWII
Western Front (World War II)
Campaigns of World War II
East African Campaign (World War II)
Eastern Front (World War II)
Italian Campaign (World War II)
West Africa Campaign (World War II)
European Theatre of World War II
South-East Asian Theatre of World War II
Attacks on Australia during World War II
Attacks on North America during World War II
Australian home front during World War II
List of Military operations on the Eastern Front European Theater during WW2
United States home front during World War II
Arctic convoys of World War II
Albania
Australia
Belarus
Bulgaria
Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II
Burma
Carpathian Ruthenia
Egypt
Estonia
Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany
Finland
France
Germany
Nazi Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Axis occupation of Greece during World War II
Greenland
Hungary
India
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany
Leningrad Oblast
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Axis naval activity in New Zealand waters
Philippines
Romania
South Africa
Southern Rhodesia
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
Vietnam
Yugoslavia
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Occupation of Baltic republics by Nazi Germany
Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany
Occupation of Denmark
German occupation of the Channel Islands
Orders, decorations, and medals of Nazi Germany
Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany
Nazi plunder
Propaganda during World War II
American propaganda during World War II
Walt Disney's World War II propaganda production
List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
British propaganda during World War II
Nazi propaganda
Soviet propaganda during World War II
Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
History of the Jews during World War II
List of individuals and groups assisting Jews during the Holocaust
American Minority Groups in World War II
Hispanic Americans in World War II
Allied leaders of World War II
Axis Leaders of World War II
Commanders of World War II
List of World War II aces by country
List of World War II air aces
British 51st (Highland) Infantry Division (World War II)
British Army Groups in WWII
British Brigades in World War II
British Corps in World War II
17th Airborne Division
German military technology during World War II
Allied technological cooperation during World War II
Technological escalation during World War II
Equipment losses in World War II
List of World War II military vehicles by country
List of World War II military vehicles of Germany
List of World War II ship classes
List of World War II ships
List of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons
List of WW2 Luftwaffe aircraft by manufacturer
List of aircraft of Italy, World War II
List of aircraft of Japan, World War II
List of aircraft of Russia, World War II
List of aircraft of World War II
List of aircraft of the French Air Force during World War II
List of aircraft of the British, World War II
List of aircraft of the Luftwaffe, World War II
List of aircraft of the U.S. military, World War II
List of armoured fighting vehicles of World War II
List of broadsides of major World War II ships
List of undersea-carried planes during World War II
List of weapons on Japanese combat aircraft
List of prototype WWII combat vehicles
List of foreign vehicles used by Nazi Germany in World War II
List of helicopters used in World War II
List of jet aircraft of World War II
List of limited service World War II combat vehicles
Nazi chocolate bar bomb
Nazi belt buckle pistol
Hero of the Soviet Union
Order of Lenin
Order of Suvorov
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner
Order of Victory
Medal of Honor
Silver Star
Bronze Star
Distinguished Flying Cross
Air Medal
World War II Victory Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
American Campaign Medal
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
Iron Cross
End of World War II in Europe
End of World War II in the Pacific
Allied war crimes during World War II
Axis war criminals
Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles
Nazi gold
Post–World War II baby boom
Pursuit of Nazi collaborators
Cold War
Emergence of superpowers
Fiction based on World War II
History of the Second World War
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