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April 16 – May 2: Battle of Berlin – Nine days of street-by-street fighting; April 24 – May 1: Battle of Halbe – Elements of German 9th Army escape to the west; April 30: Death of Adolf Hitler; May 7: Unconditional surrender of Germany in Rheims; May 8: End of World War II in Europe; May 6 – May 11: Prague Offensive
Eastern Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...
Battles and operations of World War II involving the Soviet Union (9 C, 26 P) Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War (13 C, 168 P) Battle of Stalingrad (4 C, 29 P)
Timeline of Sweden during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II (1939–1945) Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II; Chronology of the liberation of Belgian cities and towns during World War II; Timeline of the Manhattan Project (1939–1947) Timeline of air operations ...
This is a list of military operations in Europe on the Eastern Front of World War II. These were operations by Germany and its allies on one side and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other and were a consequence of the German invasion in 1941. The geographic boundaries have blurred edges.
World War II, or the Second World War was a global military conflict that was fought between September 1, 1939, and September 2, 1945. The war pitted two major military alliances against each other: the Allies of the United States, Soviet Union , United Kingdom, China and others against the Axis of Germany , Japan , Italy and others .
[1] Iran declared war on Japan retroactive to the previous day. [2] The German XXIV (24th) Panzer Corp launched a counteroffensive on the Eastern Front around Lauban. [3] The Ninth United States Army captured Mönchengladbach. [4] The horror-drama film The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Albert Lewin, George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield premiered ...
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 [update] this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states.