List of theaters and campaigns of World War II

The List of theaters 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

• Second Italo-Abyssinian War
• Spanish Civil War
• Second Sino-Japanese War
• Soviet-Japanese Border War (1939)
• Italian invasion of Albania
• Slovak-Hungarian War
• Winter War
• Franco-Thai War

Campaigns and theatres of World War II

European Theatre

Western Front

• Phony War
• Invasion of Finland (November 1939-March 1940)
• Invasion of Denmark and Norway (April–June 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)
  • 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

• 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

• Sino-Japanese 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 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

Air wars

• Battle of Britain
• Strategic bombing during World War II
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Contemporary wars

• Chinese Civil War (April 12, 1927 – May 1, 1950)
• Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945)
• Soviet-Japanese Border War (May 11, 1939 – September 16, 1939)
• French-Thai War (September 1, 1940 – May 9, 1941)
• Continuation War (June 25, 1941 – September 19, 1944)
• Ecuadorian-Peruvian War (July 5, 1941 – February 13, 1942)
• Lapland War (October 1, 1944 – April 25, 1945)
• Greek Civil War (December 3, 1944 – October 16, 1949)
• Seven Enemy Offensive (September 27, 1941 – June 6, 1944)
• Anglo-Iraqi War (May 2 – 31, 1941)

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