Battaglie della seconda guerra mondiale

Da La mia Seconda Guerra Mondiale.

This is a list of military engagements of World War II encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localised to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war. Another misnomer is the Battle of Britain, which by all rights should be considered a campaign, not a mere battle.

Indice

Major campaigns

European Theatre

Asian and Pacific Theatre

Middle East Theatre

African and Mediterranean Theatre

Battles

1939

• Invasion of Poland
Battle of Bzura
Battle of Mława
Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski
Battle of Kock
Battle of Warsaw
Battle of Modlin
Poland invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union.
 
 
 
 
 
 
• Saar Offensive French attack on Saarland.
• Winter War
Battle of Tolvajärvi
Battle of Suomussalmi
 
 
 
• Battle of Changsha (1939) First Japanese attempt to take Changsha during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• Battle of the River Plate The Admiral Graf Spee chased into Montevideo harbour and later scuttled.

1940

• Battle of the Atlantic Name given to the conflicts in the Atlantic Ocean between 1940 and 1945.
• Winter War
Battle of Kollaa
Battle of Honkaniemi
 
 
The only tank battle during the Winter War.
• Battle of Narvik Minor Allied victory in Norway.
• Battle of Namsos Failed Allied attempt to halt the Germans in Norway.
• Battle of the Netherlands Germany defeats the Dutch in Europe during Operation Fall Gelb.
• Battle of Belgium Germany defeats Belgium during Operation Fall Gelb.
• Battle of France Germany defeats France and the British Expeditionary Force at the culmination of Operation Fall Gelb.
• Battle of French Indochina (1940) Japan successfully invades French Indochina.
• Battle of Dunkirk Successful evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (Operation Dynamo).
• Battle of Britain The German Luftwaffe fails to defeat the Royal Air Force as the precondition for the invasion of Britain.
• Greco-Italian War
Battle of Pindus
Italian forces invading Greece from Albania are repelled.
 
• Battle of Taranto British carrier-based planes destroy the Italian fleet in Taranto Harbor.
• Hundred Regiments Offensive Major offensive by the Chinese Red Army against the Imperial Japanese Army.

1941

• Battle of Cape Matapan British fleet defeats Italian fleet.
• Battle of Denmark Strait The German battleship Bismarck sinks HMS Hood.
• Invasion of Yugoslavia Germany and allies invade Yugoslavia.
• Battle of Greece Germany invades Greece via Bulgaria.
• Battle of Crete German paratroopers capture Crete, but suffer many casualties.
• Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Smolensk
Battle of Kiev
Battle of Moscow
German invasion of the Soviet Union.
The German advance is halted, albeit temporarily.
 
The German Army Group Centre is driven back from Moscow.
• Attack on Pearl Harbor Surprise Japanese attack destroys almost all the US Pacific Fleet.
• Battle of Singapore Japan takes Singapore.
• Battle of Changsha (1941) Japan's second unsuccessful attempt to take Changsha.
• Japanese Invasion of Thailand Japan successfully invades Thailand.

1942

• Battle of Makassar Strait US and Dutch forces attack a Japanese convoy.
• Battle of Dražgoše First direct engagement between Slovenian partisans and German occupying forces.
• Battle of the Java Sea Japanese forces wipe out an Allied naval squadron.
• Battle of Badung Strait Heavily outnumbered Japanese forces defeat an Allied night-time naval attack.
• Indian Ocean raid Allied naval forces and shipping incur heavy losses during Japan's Fast Carrier Strike Force sortie.
• Battle of Corregidor Philippines lost to Japan.
• Battle of Nanos Eight hundred Italian soldiers lay siege to fifty Slovene partisans.
• Battle of the Coral Sea First aircraft-carrier vs. aircraft-carrier battle. Japan wins tactically, but loses strategically.
• Battle of Bir Hakeim The First Free French Brigade buys Allied forces enough time to prevent a German breakthrough to the Suez Canal.
• Battle of Midway Key defeat of Japanese naval forces in the Pacific; the Japanese lose four aircraft-carriers.
• Convoy PQ-17 A convoy of twenty-seven ships leaves Iceland on June 17, bound for Murmansk. Ten arrive on July 5.

1943

1944

1945

Sieges

Naval engagements

General

Specific
1939

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

Major bombing campaigns

General'

Specific'

Operations

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Raids

Small to medium-sized raiding operations were carried out by both Allied and Axis armies during World War II. The modus operandi used included guerrilla attacks by partisans in occupied territory and/or combined operations involving the landing and removal of specialised light infantry, such as commandos, by means of small boats.

Raiding units

Defensive lines

Contemporaneous wars


See also

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