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Battle of Timor (1942–43) Battle of the Java Sea (1942) Battle of Sunda Strait (1942) Battle of Java (1942) Second Battle of the Java Sea (1942) Japanese Invasion of Rabaul, January–February 1942. Japanese attacks on Australia: February–June 1942. Bombing of Darwin: February 1942. Attack on Broome: March 1942.
January 28 incident (January 28 – March 3, 1932) Defense of the Great Wall (January 1 – May 31, 1933) Action in Inner Mongolia (May 26 – October, 1933) Suiyuan campaign (October – November 1936) Soviet-Japanese Border War (May 11 – September 16, 1939) Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – December 7, 1941)
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War [j] in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War[k] in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland. It encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe ...
689 British tanks lost [i] The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the ...
The Battle of Stalingrad[Note 8] (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) [27][28][29][30] was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in southern Russia.
The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II. [f] After the Vistula–Oder offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line 60 km (37 mi) east ...
c. 500 killed. 17 submarines lost [ 10 ] The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign [ 11 ][ 12 ] in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration ...
The "Bulge" was the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in World War II [20] [21] [22] and the third-deadliest campaign in American history. It was one of the most important battles of the war, as it marked the last major offensive attempted by the Axis powers on the Western front.