Wikipedia:World War II wikireader/articles
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This page lists articles to be included in the World War II wikireader. Articles will be classified by how necessary they are. For example, some articles must be in any respectable World War II encyclopedia - these are "must have" articles.
Make sure to use a numbered list (using the #) for ease of counting later on, and please keep each section alphabetical (to prevent listing the same article twice). Names should be done by first letter of first name.
Most of the articles here should come from Category:World War II.
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[edit] Must-have articles
- Adolf Hitler
- Atlantic Wall
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Balkans Campaign
- Battle of Berlin
- Battle of Britain
- Battle of Dunkirk
- Battle of France
- Battle of Guadalcanal
- Battle of Iwo Jima
- Battle of Kursk
- Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Monte Cassino
- Battle of Moscow
- Battle of Normandy
- Battle of Okinawa
- Battle of Peleliu
- Battle of Savo Island
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Battle of Taranto
- Battle of Tarawa
- Battle of Tunisia
- Battle of the Bulge
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- Battle of the Kasserine Pass
- Battle of the Philippine Sea
- Benito Mussolini
- Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- Blitzkrieg
- Casablanca Conference
- Causes of World War II
- Charles de Gaulle
- Chester Nimitz
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Deutsches Afrikakorps
- Dieppe Raid
- DKM Bismarck
- Doolittle Raid
- Douglas MacArthur
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Eastern Front (WWII)
- Erich von Manstein
- Erwin Rommel
- European Theatre of World War II
- First Battle of El Alamein
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- George Patton
- German AFVs of World War II
- Gestapo
- Harry S. Truman
- Hirohito
- Hitler Youth
- The Holocaust
- Island-hopping
- Italian Campaign
- Joseph Stalin
- July 20 Plot
- Karl Doenitz
- Konstantin Rokossovsky
- Manhattan Project
- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- Nazi Germany
- North African Campaign
- Nuremberg Trials
- Operation Bagration
- Operation Barbarossa
- Operation Downfall
- Operation Husky
- Operation Market Garden
- Operation Mars
- Operation Sealion
- Operation Shingle
- Pacific Theater of Operations
- Invasion of Poland
- Potsdam Conference
- Second Battle of El Alamein
- Second Battle of the Atlantic
- Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
- SS
- The Blitz
- Timeline of the Second World War
- Treaty of Versailles
- Ultra
- V-2 rocket
- Vichy France
- Warsaw Uprising
- Wehrmacht
- Western Front (WWII)
- Winston Churchill
- World War II
- World War II casualties
- Yalta Conference
- Yamamoto Isoroku
- Yamato
[edit] Should-have articles
- Albert Speer
- Allied campaign in Norway
- Appeasement
- Atlantic Charter
- Battle of Crete
- Battle of the Java Sea
- Bombing of Dresden in World War II
- Bombing of Tokyo in World War II
- Continuation War
- Curtis LeMay
- Enigma machine
- Erich Raeder
- Europe first
- Flying Tigers
- Free French Forces
- French Resistance
- George Marshall
- Georgy Zhukov
- Gerd von Rundstedt
- Heinrich Himmler
- Heinz Guderian
- Henry H. Arnold
- Hermann Göring
- Hideki Tojo
- Ivan Koniev
- Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Joseph Goebbels
- Kamikaze
- Karl Dönitz
- Katyn Massacre
- Luftwaffe (possibly just an excerpt?)
- M4 Sherman
- Maginot Line
- Marshall Plan
- Mitsubishi Zero
- Neville Chamberlain
- Omar Bradley
- Operation Paperclip
- Operation Tempest
- P-51 Mustang
- Reichstag fire
- Red Army
- Red Orchestra
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Rudolf Hess
- Siege of Leningrad
- Spanish Civil War
- Strategic Bombing During World War II
- Stavka
- Tobruk
- Tokyo Rose
- V1 flying bomb
- Vidkun Quisling
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- Waffen-SS
- Wilhelm Keitel
- William Halsey, Jr.
- Winter War
[edit] Would-be-nice articles
- 88 mm gun
- Alan Turing
- America First
- Anne Frank
- Anschluss
- Army Group Centre
- Army Group South
- Avro Lancaster
- Axis Powers
- B-17 Flying Fortress
- B-29 Superfortress
- Baldur von Schirach
- Battle of Singapore
- Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
- Bazooka
- Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
- Bletchley Park
- Browning Automatic Rifle
- Chindits
- Claude Auchinleck
- Code talkers
- DKM Tirpitz
- Eighth Air Force
- Erich Hartmann
- Ernest King
- Ernie Pyle
- FG42
- First Battle of Kharkov
- Focke-Wulf Fw 187
- Francisco Franco
- Frank Knox
- Franz von Papen
- Geheimfernschreiber
- Gothic Line
- Hero City
- HMS Hood
- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
- Husband E. Kimmel
- Ilse Koch
- International Military Tribunal for the Far East
- Iron Cross
- James Forrestal
- Japanese American Internment
- Jean Moulin
- Kilroy was here
- Klaus Barbie
- Korsun Pocket
- Leslie Groves
- London Charter of the International Military Tribunal
- Lord Haw-Haw
- Lidice
- Lorenz cypher
- Magic (cryptography)
- Malmedy massacre
- Martin Bormann
- Maquis (WW2)
- Messerschmitt Bf 109
- Messerschmitt Me 210
- Messerschmitt Me 262
- Morgenthau Plan
- MP40
- Musachi
- Night of the Long Knives
- Nobutake Kondo
- Norwegian resistance movement
- Occupation of Denmark
- ODESSA
- Onoda Hiroo
- Operation Cobra
- Operation Dragoon
- Operation Torch
- Operation Weserübung
- Otto Skorzeny
- PURPLE
- Phony War
- Second Battle of Kharkov
- Sepp Dietrich
- Siege of Malta
- Siegfried Line
- Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.
- Sturmgewehr 44
- T-34 tank
- Thompson submachine gun
- Tuskegee Airmen
- V3
- Victor's justice
- Z3
- White Rose
- William Leahy
[edit] Do not include
- Potsdam Agreement (covered by Potsdam Conference)
- Potsdam Declaration (covered by Potsdam Conference)
- Operation Dynamo (covered by Battle of Dunkirk)
- D-Day (covered by Battle of Normandy)
- Final solution - (covered by Holocaust)
- Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Covered by Wehrmacht)
- Oberkommando des Heeres (Covered by Wehrmacht)
- Panther tank (covered by German AFVs of World War II)
- Claus von Stauffenberg (Covered by July 20 plot)