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Soviet-German War

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Phase Start date End date Actions
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 1941-12-04
First Soviet winter counter-offensive 1941-12-05 1942-05-07
  • Moscow (Oct 2 1941 – Jan 7)
German offensive of 1942 1942-05-08 1942-11-18
Second Soviet winter counter-offensive 1942-11-19 1943-07-03
Third German offensive and
Soviet counter-offensive
1943-07-04 1944-06-08
Soviet push to Germany 1944-06-09 1945-01-11
Soviet invasion of Germany 1945-01-12 1945-05-11

European-Atlantic Theatre of World War II

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Phase Start date End date Actions
German Blitzkrieg on Europe 1939-09-01 1940-06-25
Axis triumphant 1940-06-26 1940-11-07
Ebb and flow 1940-11-08 1942-10-22
The Western Allies take the initiative 1942-10-23 1944-06-04
The Axis crumble 1944-06-05 1945-05-08

Battle of the Atlantic

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Phase Start date End date Actions
Initial skirmishes 1939-09 1940-05 Battle of the River Plate (13 Dec)
Altmark Incident (16 Feb)
First Happy Time 1940-06 1941-03 Convoy SC-7 (Oct 16)
Operation Berlin (Jan 22 - Mar 21)
Ebb and flow 1941-04 1941-12 Operation Rhine Exercise (May 18 - 27)
Second Happy Time 1942-01 1942-08 Operation Cerberus (Feb 11 - 13)
Convoy PQ-17 (June - July)
Axis lose the advantage 1942-09 1943-05 Battle of the Barents Sea (Dec 31)
Black May (1943)
Allies control the ocean 1943-06 1945-05 Battle of North Cape (Dec 26, 1943)

Mediterranean-Middle East-Africa Theatre of World War II

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Phase Start date End date Actions
The Commonwealth take the advantage 1940-06-11 1941-01-05 Battle of the Espero Convoy (Jun 28)
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Jul 3)
Battle of Calabria (Jul 9)
Battle of Cape Spada (Jul 19)
Battle of Taranto (Nov 11)
Battle of Cape Spartivento (Nov 27)
Germany comes to Italy's assistance 1941-01-06 1942-11-07 Operation Excess (Jan 6 - 11)
Battle of Cape Matapan (Mar 27)
Battle of the Tarigo Convoy (Apr 16)
Battle of Crete (May 20 – Jun 1)
Operation Substance (Jul 23)
Operation Halberd (Sep 24 - 28)
Battle of the Duisburg Convoy (Nov 8)
Battle of Cape Bon (Dec 13)
First Battle of Sirte (Dec 17)
Alexandria raid (Dec 19)
Second Battle of Sirte (Mar 22)
Operation Harpoon (1942) (Jun 12)
Operation Vigorous (Jun 12)
Operation Pedestal (Aug 9)
Operation Agreement (Sep 13)
The Allies take control of the Mediterranean 1941-11-08 1943-11-07 Operation Torch (Nov 8)
Operation Stone Age (Nov 20)
Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon (Nov 27)
Battle of Skerki Bank (Dec 1)
Operation Portcullis (Dec 5)
Battle of the Cigno Convoy (Apr 16)
Allied invasion of Sicily (Jul 9)
Phase Start date End date Actions
Initial raids and the Italian invasion of Egypt 1940-06-11 1940-09-17
Operation Compass 1940-12-10 1941-02-09
Axis western desert offensive (1941) 1941-03-24 1941-04-15
Stalemate 1941-04-16 1941-11-17 Siege of Tobruk
Operation Brevity
Operation Battleaxe
Operation Crusader 1941-11-18 1941-12-30
Axis western desert offensive (1942) 1942-01-21 1942-09-05 Advance to the Gazala Line (Jan 21 - Feb 4)
Battle of Gazala (May 26 - June 21)
First Battle of El Alamein (July 1 – July 27)
Battle of Alam el Halfa (Aug 30 – Sep 5)
Allied western desert offensive (1942-1943) 1942-10-23 1942-01-26 Second Battle of El Alamein (Oct 23 – Nov 5)
Axis withdrawal to Tunisia (Nov 6 - Jan 26)

Strategic bombing

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Raiding operations

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Action Date
St. Nazaire Raid 1942-03-28
Dieppe Raid 1942-08-19

Asia-Pacific Theatre of World War II

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Phase Start date End date Actions
Japanese invasion of China 1937-07-07 1938-10-27
Stalemate in China 1938-10-28 1941-12-06
Japanese expansion 1941-12-07 1942-05-26
The Allies take the initiative 1942-05-27 1943-02-09
Allies close in 1943-02-10 1944-10-19
Japan defeated 1944-10-20 1945-09-02