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World War II

Aftermath of World War II
Events following the conclusion of World War II
Air raids on Japan
Aerial bombing of Japan during World War II
Air warfare of World War II
Major component in all theaters
Aktion T4
Nazi German euthanasia programme
Allied invasion of Sicily
1943 military campaign of World War II on the island of Sicily, Italy
Allies of World War II
Grouping of the victorious countries of World War II
Anglo-Iraqi War
Campaign during World War II
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Joint invasion of Iran by the United Kingdom and Soviet Union during World War II
Anschluss
1938 annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Use of nuclear weapons in World War II
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the United States
Auschwitz concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Poland during World War II
Axis powers
Alliance of countries in World War II
Babi Yar
Ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv
Balkans campaign (World War II)
Series of offensives in 1940 and 1941
Bandenbekämpfung
Aspect of war fighting
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War II
Battle of Britain
WWII air battle fought between German and British air forces
Battle of France
German invasion of France in 1940
Battle of Hong Kong
One of the first battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II
Battle of Iwo Jima
Major World War II battle in the Pacific Theater
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle in the Soviet Union; largest tank battle in history
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Largest naval battle of World War II
Battle of Midway
1942 major naval battle in World War II
Battle of Okinawa
Major 1945 battle of the Pacific War
Battle of Stalingrad
Major battle of World War II
Battle of the Atlantic
Attempt by Germany during World War II to cut supply lines to Britain
Battle of the Bulge
German offensive through the Ardennes forest on the Western Front towards the end of World War II
Burma campaign
Series of battles fought during World War II
Causes of World War II
Continuation War
1941–1944 Finnish war against USSR
Defence of the Reich
Strategic defensive aerial campaign fought by the Luftwaffe over German-occupied Europe and Germany itself during World War II
Eastern Front (World War II)
Theatre of war of European Axis and Soviet Union blocs
Einsatzgruppen
Nazi paramilitary death squads, part of the SS
Fall of Singapore
World War II battle; decisive Japanese victory
Final Solution
Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jews
Finland in World War II
Period of Finnish history from 1939 to 1945
Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
Population transfers
Free France
Government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War
Generalplan Ost
Nazi racial plan of enslavement and genocide of Slavic people living in Central and Eastern Europe
German invasion of Greece
Invasion of Allied Greece by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during World War II
German-occupied Europe
European countries occupied by the military forces of Nazi Germany
Guadalcanal campaign
U.S. military campaign in World War II
Holocaust denial
Antisemitic conspiracy theory
Holocaust trains
Railway use under the supervision of the German Nazis for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaust to Nazi concentration camps
Invasion of Poland
German and Soviet attack on Poland that marked the beginning of World War II
Italian campaign (World War II)
1943–1945 military campaign of World War II
Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany
Areas of Jewish imprisonment during the Holocaust
Jewish question
Debate in European society pertaining to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews in society
Kokoda Track campaign
Part of the Pacific War of World War II
Lend-Lease
WW2 program to provide US allies with free armaments
Malayan campaign
1941–1942 World War II military campaign
Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
Major theatre of operations during the Second World War
Munich Agreement
1938 cession of German-speaking Czechoslovakia to the Nazis
Nazi concentration camps
Concentration camps operated by Nazi Germany
Normandy landings
First day of the Allied invasion of France in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II
North African campaign
Major military campaign of WWII fought in North Africa
Occupation of Japan
United States-led Allied occupation of Japan following WWII
Oder–Neisse line
German-Polish border since the end of World War II
Operation Bagration
Large Soviet military offensive in WW2
Operation Barbarossa
1941 Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII
Operation Market Garden
1944 World War II military operation
Operation Reinhard
Code name for the creation of German extermination camps in Poland in World War II
Operation Torch
Allied landing operations in French North Africa during World War II
Operation Weserübung
Code name for Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway during the Second World War
Pacific War
Theater of World War II
Polish population transfers in 1944–1946
Post WWII resettlement
Potsdam Conference
Meeting of the Allied heads of state near the end of World War II
Romani Holocaust
Genocide against Romani in Europe during World War II
Siege of Leningrad
Blockade by the Axis powers, 1941–1944
Siege of Malta (World War II)
Soviet invasion of Manchuria
1945 Soviet campaign of World War II
Soviet partisans
Coordinated resistance movements in German-occupied Soviet territory during WWII
Soviet–Japanese War
1945 Soviet invasion of Manchukuo
Strategic bombing during World War II
Airborne warfare throughout World War II
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
Title held by General Douglas MacArthur during the Allied occupation of Japan
Surrender of Japan
End of World War II
Syria–Lebanon campaign
1941 British offensive in World War II
The Blitz
1940–41 German bombing of Britain during WW2
The Holocaust
Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
Treaty of San Francisco
1952 Japan–Allies peace treaty
Tunisian campaign
Series of battles in Tunisia during the Second World War
Vichy France
Client state of Nazi Germany (1940–1944)
Warsaw Ghetto
Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland
Western Allied invasion of Germany
1945 offensive in the European theatre of World War II
Western Desert campaign
Campaign fought in Libya and Egypt during WWII
Western Front (World War II)
Theatre of World War II fought in the Western front of Europe
Winter War
1939–1940 war between the Soviet Union and Finland
World War II
1939–1945 global conflict
Yalta Conference
World War II allies discussing postwar reorganization