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Table of Contents
Timeline of World War II
Battles of 1939
Battles of 1940
Battles of 1941
Battles of 1942
Battles of 1943
Battles of 1944
Battles of 1945
Appendix - Winter War, Second Sino-Japanese War
Battles of 1941
Battle of South Henan - Chinese Nationalists led by Li Zongren defeat Japanese.
Battle of Shanggao (March 14 - April 9) - Chinese victory.
Battle of Cape Matapan March 28 - British Royal Navy task force defeats Italian fleet.
Battle of Greece (April 6 - April 24) - Germany takes the Balkan Peninsula after Italian Stalemate.
Battle of South Shanxi (May 7 - May 27) - Japanese victory in China.
Battle of Denmark Strait May 23 - Bismarck sinks HMS Hood
Sinking of the Bismarck May 27 - Famous German Battleship is lost.
Battle of Crete May 20 - June 1 - German paratroopers capture Crete, suffer many casualties.
Operation Barbarossa June 22 - German invasion of the Soviet Union
Armaments
PPSh-41 submachine gun
T-34
KV
DP machine gun
Panzer II
Battle of Bialystok-Minsk (June 22 - June 29) - German victory in Belarus.
Battle of Brody June 24 - June 26 - One of the largest tank battles of the World War II
Battle of Kiev July 7 - September 26 - The largest encirclement battle of the World War II
Battle of Smolensk July 10 - September 10 - Soviet attempt to block Wehrmacht's advance on Moscow
Battle of Borodino - July - 7 day battle between the Soviet and the German armies
Battle of Uman August 8 - German victory over Soviet Union.
Siege of Leningrad (September 8 - January 18, 1944) - City endures three-year Nazi siege.
Second Battle of Changsha (September 6 - October 8) - Failed Japanese attempt to take city.
Siege of Tobruk (March 31 - November 27) - Erwin Rommel defeated in North Africa.
Battle of Rostov November 27.
Armaments
Machine pistol
Battle of Pearl Harbor December 7 - Japanese carrier task force destroys U.S. Fleet in surprise attack
Armaments
B-17 Flying Fortress
Aichi D3A
USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS California (BB-44)
USS Cassin (DD-372)
USS Downes (DD-375)
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
Japanese battleship Hiei
Japanese cruiser Chikuma
Japanese submarine I-25
Kagero class destroyer
Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku
Battle of Malaya December 8 - Japan invades Malaysia.
Naval Battle of Singapore December 10 - Japanese torpedo craft sunk HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.
Battle of Cape Bon December 13 - Italian naval defeat.
First Battle of Sirte December 17 - Angelo Iachino defeats Andrew Cunningham in a naval battle.
Battle of Wake Island (December 8 - December 23) - Japanese forces capture the Pacific Island.
Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan (December 8 - December 23) - Japan conquers Thailand.
Battle of Hong Kong (December 8 - December 25) - Japanese drive British forces from their Chinese territory.
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