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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
o PPSh-41 submachine gun
o T-34
o KV
o DP machine gun
o 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
o Machine pistol
* Battle of Pearl Harbor December 7 - Japanese carrier task force destroys U.S. Fleet in surprise attack
* Armaments
o B-17 Flying Fortress
o Aichi D3A
o USS Arizona (BB-39)
o USS California (BB-44)
o USS Cassin (DD-372)
o USS Downes (DD-375)
o USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
o Japanese battleship Hiei
o Japanese cruiser Chikuma
o Japanese submarine I-25
o Kagero class destroyer
o 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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