What are some major battles fought in world war 2?

Question

I m trying to find some important and major battles in world war 2. there are many of them but i just need some of them maybe like 5-6. Important battles include from like D-Day and others which are really important for some countries for like Australia, NewZealand, South Africa. I am trying to create a timeline of important battles and their consequences. Please give me some names of Important Battles. Below are some which i know already, it would be better if have more:

D-Day
Battle of Atlantic
Pearl Harbour (event which lead US join the war)
Normady Beaches
Dieppe

I need some more so please help me out

Answer 1

Too many. However, I'll mention important campaigns with a few stand-alone battles (however, some campaigns are named battles although they're not battles) and pick the important battles out the campaigns, if any.

1) Invasion of Poland (1939)

2) Phoney War (1939-1940)

3) Winter War (1939-1940)

4) Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)

5) Operation Weserübung (1940)

6) Battle of France (1940)

7) Battle of Britain (1940)

8) Western Desert Campaign (1940-1943)

9) Italian conquest of British Somaliland (1940)

10) Occupation of the Baltic States (1940-1991; two occupiers; two wars)

11) Soviet Occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940)

12) Invasion of French Indochina (1940)

13) Greco-Italian War (1940-1941)

14) Operation Compass (1940-1941)

15) East Africa Campaign (1940-1941)

16) Invasion of Yugoslavia (1941)

17) Yugoslav Front (1941-1945)

18) Battle of Greece (1941)

19) Battle of Crete (1941)

20) Operation Barbarossa (1941)

21) Continuation War (1941-1944)

22) Middle East Campaign (no battles among allied v. axis fought there)

23) Battle of Kiev (1941)

24) Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944)

25) Battle of Moscow (1941-1942)

26) Siege of Sevastopol (1941-1942)

27) Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)

28) Battle of the Coral Sea (1942)

29) Battle of Midway (1942)

30) Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943)

31) Second Battle of El Alamein (1942)

32) Operation Torch (1942)

33) Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-1943)

34) Tunisia Campaign (1942-1943)

35) Battle of Kursk (1943)

36) Battle of Smolensk (1943)

37) Solomon Islands Campaign (1942-1945)

38) Invasion of Sicily (1943)

39) Lower Dnieper Offensive (1943)

40) Invasion of Italy (1943)

41) Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign (1943-1944)

42) Battle of Monte Cassino (1944)

43) Operation Shingle (1944)

44) Battle of Narva (1944)

45) Invasion of Normandy (1944)

46) Mariana and Palau Islands campaign (1944)

47) Operation Bagration (1944)

48) Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive (1944)

49) Warsaw Uprising (1944)

50) Jassy–Kishinev Offensive (1944)

51) Belgrade Offensive (1944)

52) Liberation of Paris (1944)

53) Gothic Line (1944)

54) Operation Market Garden (1944)

55) Operation Crossbow (1943-1945)

56) Operation Pointblank (1943-1944)

57) Lapland War (1944-1945)

58) Budapest Offensive (1944-1945)

59) Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944)

60) Battle of the Bulge (1944-1945)

61) Vistula–Oder Offensive (1945)

62) Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)

63) Battle of Okinawa (1945)

64) Spring 1945 offensive in Italy (1945)

65) Battle of Berlin (1945)

66) Prague Offensive (1945)

67) Siege of Budapest (1944-1945)

68) Soviet invasion of Manchuria (1945)

69) Battle of Manila (1945)

70) Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)

Answer 2

The German in N France, before the evacuation of Dunkerque. The Germans in n France after D Day June 1940, the invasion of normandy. The advance to Berlin, through the Ardennes (battle of the Bulge winter 44-45) In between there were a few encounters around the world, with the Japanese in the far east, italians in Italy and Greece.... ....and the Germans in North Africa!

Answer 3

Here is a great paper on D-Day.



http://www.nationscrier.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71%3Athe-101st-at-normandy&Itemid=62



Other important battles:

Midway, Stalingrad, Kiosk, El Alimien...

Answer 4

The battle of kursk (soviet v. Germany)

The battle of Stalingrad (soviet v. Germany)

The battle of Midway (America v. Japan)

The battle of Berlin (soviet v. Germany)

The battle of Britain (Britain v. Germany)

The battle of El Alamein

Answer 5

The Battle of Tarawa (U.S. against Japs)