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Operation München. Operation München (Romanian: Operațiunea München) was the Romanian codename of a joint German-Romanian offensive during the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II, with the primary objective of recapturing Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region, ceded by Romania to the Soviet Union a year before (Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern ...
Attacks in 1945 (2 C, 1 P) Attacks in 1946 (2 C) A. Arson in the 1940s ... Attacks on military installations in the 1940s (3 C, 47 P) T. Terrorist incidents in the ...
Operation Barbarossa [g] was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on 22 June 1941, during World War II. More than 3.8 million Axis troops invaded the western Soviet Union along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with the main goal of capturing territory up to a line between ...
Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940–1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-648-3. Sadkovich, James (1990). Reevaluating Major Naval Combatants of World War II. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-26149-0. Smith, Peter Charles (1980).
Siege of Calais (1940) Battle of Cape Spada; Case Brown; Central Hubei Operation; 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya; Bombing of Chongqing; Battle of Clos du Doubs; 1940 Cochinchina uprising; Operation Collar (commando raid) Convoy HX 47; Convoy HX 49; Operation Cycle; Czortków uprising
The United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany in 1939, following the German invasion of Poland, but no major land operations occurred in Western Europe during the period known as the Phoney War in the winter of 1939–1940. During this time, the British and French built up their forces in expectation of a long war, and the Germans ...
Allied air and naval attacks against Japanese shipping in the South China Sea were expanded during early 1945 as additional USAAF units moved into bases in the Philippines. [89] Land-based patrol aircraft and medium bombers operated over the sea from liberated areas of the Philippines and Dutch East Indies from February.
Operation Compass (also Italian: Battaglia della Marmarica) was the first large British military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during the Second World War.