World War II

Battles 37

Battle sites 43

• Attack on Pearl Harbor Honolulu · 21.31, -157.86
• Battle of Midway Midway Atoll · 28.2, -177.38
• Battle of Britain London · 51.5, -0.12
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Hiroshima · 34.385, 132.455
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nagasaki · 32.75, 129.87
• Invasion of Poland ,
• Invasion of Poland ,
• Battle of France ,
• Battle of France ,
• Battle of Britain ,
• Operation Barbarossa ,
• Operation Barbarossa ,
• Attack on Pearl Harbor ,
• Battle of Midway ,
• Battle of Stalingrad ,
• Operation Overlord ,
• Operation Overlord ,
• Operation Overlord ,
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ,
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ,
• Battle of the Atlantic Battle of the Atlantic · 45.0, -30.0
• Operation Weserübung Invasion of Norway · 64.0, -12.0
• Siege of Tobruk Tobruk · 32.0761, 23.9614
• Battle of Crete Crete · 35.5, 24.0611
• Siege of Leningrad Siege of Leningrad · 59.9303, 30.3192
• Siege of Leningrad Soviet Union · ,
• Battle of Monte Cassino Monte Cassino · 41.4833, 13.8167
• Battle of Anzio Anzio · 41.443, 12.625
• Operation Bagration Operation Bagration · 53.9006, 27.559
• Operation Dragoon Operation Dragoon · 43.2275, 6.6625
• Operation Dragoon France · ,
• Operation Market Garden Market Garden · 51.4356, 5.4806
• Battle of Berlin Battle of Berlin · 52.5186, 13.3761
• Battle of Berlin Germany · ,
• Operation Torch Operation Torch · 35.085, -2.029
• Burma campaign Burma campaign · 21.0, 96.0
• Kokoda Track campaign Kokoda Track · -8.8778, 147.7375
• Guadalcanal campaign Guadalcanal · -9.4456, 160.0203
• Battle of Tarawa Tarawa · 1.4269, 172.9756
• Battle of Saipan Saipan · 15.1833, 145.75
• Battle of Saipan United States · ,
• Battle of Okinawa Okinawa · 26.5, 128.0
• Battle of Okinawa Japan · ,

Axis 15

Hermann Göring · 1893–1946 Joseph Stalin Ordered Soviet Invasion · 1878–1953 Adolf Hitler Ordered German invasion · 1889–1945 Hideki Tojo Prime Minister who presided over the decision for war · 1884–1948 Erwin Rommel Field Marshal, Commander of the Afrika Korps and Army Group B · 1891–1944 Joachim von Ribbentrop Foreign Minister, Nazi Germany · 1893–1946 Karl Dönitz Grand Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine · 1891–1980 Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer-SS, Nazi Germany · 1900–1945 Hirohito Emperor, Japan · 1901–1989 Benito Mussolini Prime Minister, Italy · 1883–1945 Isoroku Yamamoto · 1884–1943 Doihara Kenji · 1883–1948 Yoshijirō Umezu military commander · 1882–1949 Wilhelm Keitel · 1882–1946 Emilio De Bono · 1866–1944

Allies 18

Neville Chamberlain Declared war, British Prime Minister · 1869–1940 Dwight D. Eisenhower military commander · 1890–1969 Joseph Stalin head of state/government · 1878–1953 Winston Churchill belligerent leader · 1874–1965 Raymond A. Spruance military commander · 1886–1969 Frank Jack Fletcher military commander · 1885–1973 Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan the next day · 1882–1945 Georgy Zhukov coordinated the Operation Uranus counteroffensive · 1896–1974 Bernard Montgomery Field Marshal, Commander of the British Eighth Army and 21st Army Group · 1887–1976 Nikita Khrushchev Commissar, Soviet Union · 1894–1971 Chester W. Nimitz · 1885–1966 Chiang Kai-shek · 1887–1975 Douglas MacArthur military commander · 1880–1964 George C. Marshall Chief of Staff of the Army, United States · 1880–1959 Omar Bradley · 1893–1981 Rodion Malinovsky · 1898–1967 Semyon Timoshenko · 1895–1970 Kliment Voroshilov · 1881–1969

Other 21

Chester W. Nimitz · 1885–1966 Isoroku Yamamoto · 1884–1943 Semyon Timoshenko · 1895–1970 Kliment Voroshilov · 1881–1969 Baldur von Schirach · 1907–1974 Lee Teng-hui · 1923–2020 Kurt Daluege Perpetrator · 1897–1946 Adolf Hitler Ordered killings · 1889–1945 Wilhelm Keitel · 1882–1946 Alfred Jodl · 1890–1946 Erich von Manstein · 1887–1973 Omar Bradley · 1893–1981 Gerd von Rundstedt · 1875–1953 Douglas MacArthur military commander · 1880–1964 Dwight D. Eisenhower military commander · 1890–1969 George S. Patton military commander · 1885–1945 Manuel Ávila Camacho · 1897–1955 Courtney Hodges military commander · 1887–1966 Joseph Stalin belligerent leader · 1878–1953 Raymond A. Spruance military commander · 1886–1969 Frank Jack Fletcher military commander · 1885–1973