1939–1945 global conflict
Documented facts
- Date
- 1 September 1939 (Gregorian) — 2 September 1945 (Gregorian)
- Precision
- Day
- Referenced location
- Russia
- Source coordinates
- 66.4167°, 94.2500°
Referenced participants
- Axis Powers ↗
- Allies of World War II ↗
- Nazi Germany ↗
- Australia ↗
- United Kingdom ↗
- Taiwan ↗
- Egypt ↗
- Mexico ↗
- United States ↗
- Republic of China ↗
Documented participation does not establish opposing sides. Alliances absent from the sources are not reconstructed.
People and command
- Cesare Maria De Vecchi — documented participation · Source ↗
- Gustavo Pesenti — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wallace Duffield Wright — documented participation · Source ↗
- Philippe Pétain — documented participation · Source ↗
- André-Gaston Prételat — documented participation · Source ↗
- Petar Bojović — documented participation · Source ↗
- Winston Churchill — documented participation · Source ↗
- Dragutin Gavrilović — documented participation · Source ↗
- Max Valentiner — documented participation · Source ↗
- William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork — documented participation · Source ↗
- Miklós Horthy — documented participation · Source ↗
- Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis — documented participation · Source ↗
- Joseph Stalin — documented participation · Source ↗
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ernst Linder — documented participation · Source ↗
- Niilo Hersalo — documented participation · Source ↗
- Alexander Godley — documented participation · Source ↗
- Drastamat Kanayan — documented participation · Source ↗
- Aarne Sihvo — documented participation · Source ↗
- Frederick Bowhill — documented participation · Source ↗
- Kazimierz Rybicki — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jerzy Ferek-Błeszyński — documented participation · Source ↗
- Reza Shah — documented participation · Source ↗
- Maurice Gamelin — documented participation · Source ↗
- Rodolfo Graziani — documented participation · Source ↗
- Prince Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta — documented participation · Source ↗
- Feng Yuxiang — documented participation · Source ↗
- John Coleridge — documented participation · Source ↗
- Achille Starace — documented participation · Source ↗
- Joseph Putz — documented participation · Source ↗
- Joaquín de Eguía — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wolfram von Richthofen — documented participation · Source ↗
- Shigeyoshi Inoue — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jan Pardus — documented participation · Source ↗
- Masaomi Yasuoka — documented participation · Source ↗
- Kōtoku Satō — documented participation · Source ↗
- Rippei Ogisu — documented participation · Source ↗
- Georgy Zhukov — documented participation · Source ↗
- Urzhin Garmaev — documented participation · Source ↗
- Stanisław Weber — documented participation · Source ↗
- Emil Krukowicz-Przedrzymirski — documented participation · Source ↗
- Tadeusz Ptaszycki — documented participation · Source ↗
- Stanisław Sosabowski — documented participation · Source ↗
- Juliusz Levittoux — documented participation · Source ↗
- Michał Bylina — documented participation · Source ↗
- Władysław Anders — documented participation · Source ↗
- Georg von Küchler — documented participation · Source ↗
- Karl Dönitz — documented participation · Source ↗
- Erich Raeder — documented participation · Source ↗
- Max Kennedy Horton — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ernest King — documented participation · Source ↗
- Marian Porwit — documented participation · Source ↗
- Juliusz Zulauf — documented participation · Source ↗
- Werner von Fritsch — documented participation · Source ↗
- Johannes Blaskowitz — documented participation · Source ↗
- Juliusz Rómmel — documented participation · Source ↗
- Walerian Czuma — documented participation · Source ↗
- Shizuichi Tanaka — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hjalmar Siilasvuo — documented participation · Source ↗
- Henry Harwood — documented participation · Source ↗
- Richard Borthwick Jennings — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hans Langsdorff — documented participation · Source ↗
- Carl-Alfred Schumacher — documented participation · Source ↗
- Richard Kellett — documented participation · Source ↗
- Nikolaus von Falkenhorst — documented participation · Source ↗
- Leonhard Kaupisch — documented participation · Source ↗
- Eduard Dietl — documented participation · Source ↗
- Erhard Milch — documented participation · Source ↗
- Adrian Carton de Wiart — documented participation · Source ↗
- Bernard Paget — documented participation · Source ↗
- William Wain Prior — documented participation · Source ↗
- Kristian Laake — documented participation · Source ↗
- Otto Ruge — documented participation · Source ↗
- Carl Gustav Fleischer — documented participation · Source ↗
- Friedrich Bonte — documented participation · Source ↗
- Odd Isaachsen Willoch — documented participation · Source ↗
- Bernard Warburton-Lee — documented participation · Source ↗
- Alphonse Georges — documented participation · Source ↗
- Maxime Weygand — documented participation · Source ↗
- Gerd von Rundstedt — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb — documented participation · Source ↗
- Albert Kesselring — documented participation · Source ↗
- Fedor von Bock — documented participation · Source ↗
- Walther von Brauchitsch — documented participation · Source ↗
- Heinz Guderian — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hugo Sperrle — documented participation · Source ↗
- Umberto II of Italy — documented participation · Source ↗
- Leopold III of Belgium — documented participation · Source ↗
- John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort — documented participation · Source ↗
- Henri Winkelman — documented participation · Source ↗
- Władysław Sikorski — documented participation · Source ↗
- Bertram Home Ramsay — documented participation · Source ↗
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis — documented participation · Source ↗
- William Tennant — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jean-Marie Charles Abrial — documented participation · Source ↗
- Claude Auchinleck — documented participation · Source ↗
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell — documented participation · Source ↗
- Bernard Montgomery — documented participation · Source ↗
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — documented participation · Source ↗
- George S. Patton — documented participation · Source ↗
- François Darlan — documented participation · Source ↗
- Italo Balbo — documented participation · Source ↗
- Italo Gariboldi — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ugo Cavallero — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ettore Bastico — documented participation · Source ↗
- Pietro Badoglio — documented participation · Source ↗
- Giovanni Messe — documented participation · Source ↗
- Erwin Rommel — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hans-Jürgen von Arnim — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wilhelm List — documented participation · Source ↗
- Sebastiano Visconti Prasca — documented participation · Source ↗
- Alexandros Papagos — documented participation · Source ↗
- Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd — documented participation · Source ↗
- Paul Legentilhomme — documented participation · Source ↗
- Henri Dentz — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hermann Hoth — documented participation · Source ↗
- Maximilian von Weichs — documented participation · Source ↗
- Günther von Kluge — documented participation · Source ↗
- Andrey Yeryomenko — documented participation · Source ↗
- Gordey Levchenko — documented participation · Source ↗
- Erich von Manstein — documented participation · Source ↗
- Gheorghe Avramescu — documented participation · Source ↗
- Filipp Oktyabrsky — documented participation · Source ↗
- Husband E. Kimmel — documented participation · Source ↗
- Chūichi Nagumo — documented participation · Source ↗
- Isoroku Yamamoto — documented participation · Source ↗
- William A. Glassford — documented participation · Source ↗
- Shōji Nishimura — documented participation · Source ↗
- Reinhard Hardegen — documented participation · Source ↗
- Sun Li-jen — documented participation · Source ↗
- Shōjirō Iida — documented participation · Source ↗
- Masao Watanabe — documented participation · Source ↗
- Pierre Kœnig — documented participation · Source ↗
- Adolf Opálka — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jan Kubiš — documented participation · Source ↗
- Josef Bublík — documented participation · Source ↗
- Josef Valčík — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jozef Gabčík — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jan Hrubý — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jaroslav Švarc — documented participation · Source ↗
- Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ivan Tyulenev — documented participation · Source ↗
- Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hryhorii Perehiniak — documented participation · Source ↗
- Paul Hausser — documented participation · Source ↗
- Otto Deßloch — documented participation · Source ↗
- Józef Sobiesiak — documented participation · Source ↗
- Georgios Petrakis — documented participation · Source ↗
- Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski — documented participation · Source ↗
- Robert Tilney — documented participation · Source ↗
- Inigo Campioni — documented participation · Source ↗
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ulrich Kleemann — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wei Lihuang — documented participation · Source ↗
- Masakazu Kawabe — documented participation · Source ↗
- Heitarō Kimura — documented participation · Source ↗
- Sergey Gorshkov — documented participation · Source ↗
- Harry W. Hill — documented participation · Source ↗
- Thomas E. Watson — documented participation · Source ↗
- John T. Walker — documented participation · Source ↗
- Yoshimi Nishida — documented participation · Source ↗
- Vasyl Kuk — documented participation · Source ↗
- Petro Oliynyk — documented participation · Source ↗
- Joseph Stilwell — documented participation · Source ↗
- Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder — documented participation · Source ↗
- Miles Dempsey — documented participation · Source ↗
- Omar Bradley — documented participation · Source ↗
- Friedrich Dollmann — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hans von Salmuth — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wilhelm Falley — documented participation · Source ↗
- Umberto Utili — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ettore Troilo — documented participation · Source ↗
- Harry Hoppe — documented participation · Source ↗
- Vasyl Andrusyak — documented participation · Source ↗
- Troy H. Middleton — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke — documented participation · Source ↗
- Walter Model — documented participation · Source ↗
- Heinrich Eberbach — documented participation · Source ↗
- Harry Crerar — documented participation · Source ↗
- Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque — documented participation · Source ↗
- Georges Bidault — documented participation · Source ↗
- Henri Rol-Tanguy — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jacques Chaban-Delmas — documented participation · Source ↗
- Charles de Gaulle — documented participation · Source ↗
- Raymond O. Barton — documented participation · Source ↗
- Amado Granell — documented participation · Source ↗
- Dietrich von Choltitz — documented participation · Source ↗
- Lothar Rendulic — documented participation · Source ↗
- August Krakau — documented participation · Source ↗
- Aaro Pajari — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ruben Lagus — documented participation · Source ↗
- Maximilian Fretter-Pico — documented participation · Source ↗
- Johannes Frießner — documented participation · Source ↗
- Douglas MacArthur — documented participation · Source ↗
- Douglas MacArthur — documented participation · Source ↗
- Walter Krueger — documented participation · Source ↗
- Takeo Kurita — documented participation · Source ↗
- Chester W. Nimitz — documented participation · Source ↗
- Tomoyuki Yamashita — documented participation · Source ↗
- Thomas Cassin Kinkaid — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jisaburō Ozawa — documented participation · Source ↗
- George Kenney — documented participation · Source ↗
- Stepan Stebelskyi — documented participation · Source ↗
- Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hasso von Manteuffel — documented participation · Source ↗
- Creighton Abrams — documented participation · Source ↗
- Anthony McAuliffe — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hermann Niehoff — documented participation · Source ↗
- Karl Hanke — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hans von Ahlfen — documented participation · Source ↗
- Myroslav Symchych — documented participation · Source ↗
- Dietrich von Saucken — documented participation · Source ↗
- Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. — documented participation · Source ↗
- Claudius Miller Easley — documented participation · Source ↗
- Roy Geiger — documented participation · Source ↗
- Raymond A. Spruance — documented participation · Source ↗
- William Halsey Jr. — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mitsuru Ushijima — documented participation · Source ↗
- Isamu Chō — documented participation · Source ↗
- Seiichi Itō — documented participation · Source ↗
- Charles Keightley — documented participation · Source ↗
- Gerhard von Schwerin — documented participation · Source ↗
- Petar Drapšin — documented participation · Source ↗
- Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg — documented participation · Source ↗
- Odilo Globočnik — documented participation · Source ↗
- Momčilo Đujić — documented participation · Source ↗
- Leslie Morshead — documented participation · Source ↗
- Masao Baba — documented participation · Source ↗
- Michiaki Kamada — documented participation · Source ↗
- Martyn Mizernyi — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mykhailo Duda — documented participation · Source ↗
- Robert Mansergh — documented participation · Source ↗
- James A. Van Fleet — documented participation · Source ↗
- Reuben E. Jenkins — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wayne C. Smith — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mark W. Clark — documented participation · Source ↗
- Chung Il-kwon — documented participation · Source ↗
- Maurice Challe — documented participation · Source ↗
- Charles Ailleret — documented participation · Source ↗
- Raoul Salan — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ahmad ibn Billah — documented participation · Source ↗
- William Westmoreland — documented participation · Source ↗
- Saad el-Shazly — documented participation · Source ↗
- Moshe Dayan — documented participation · Source ↗
- Israel Tal — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ahmad Ismail Ali — documented participation · Source ↗
- Muhammad Abd El-Ghani El-Gamasy — documented participation · Source ↗
- Valentin Varennikov — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jan Zumbach — documented participation · Source ↗
- Leonid Brezhnev — documented participation · Source ↗
- Nikolai Bulganin — documented participation · Source ↗
- Nikita Khrushchev — documented participation · Source ↗
- Edward VIII — documented participation · Source ↗
- Willi Stoph — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hans Modrow — documented participation · Source ↗
- Victor Emmanuel III of Italy — documented participation · Source ↗
- Walter Scheel — documented participation · Source ↗
- Karl Carstens — documented participation · Source ↗
- Richard von Weizsäcker — documented participation · Source ↗
- Helmut Schmidt — documented participation · Source ↗
- Helmut Kohl — documented participation · Source ↗
- Olav V of Norway — documented participation · Source ↗
- Haakon VII of Norway — documented participation · Source ↗
- Georges Pompidou — documented participation · Source ↗
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing — documented participation · Source ↗
- François Mitterrand — documented participation · Source ↗
- Kiro Gligorov — documented participation · Source ↗
- Franjo Tuđman — documented participation · Source ↗
- Rainier III, Prince of Monaco — documented participation · Source ↗
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt — documented participation · Source ↗
- John F. Kennedy — documented participation · Source ↗
- Lyndon B. Johnson — documented participation · Source ↗
- Richard Nixon — documented participation · Source ↗
- Gerald Ford — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ronald Reagan — documented participation · Source ↗
- George H. W. Bush — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ludvík Svoboda — documented participation · Source ↗
- Wojciech Jaruzelski — documented participation · Source ↗
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi — documented participation · Source ↗
- Giorgio Napolitano — documented participation · Source ↗
- Kurt Waldheim — documented participation · Source ↗
- Rudolf Kirchschläger — documented participation · Source ↗
- Zelman Cowen — documented participation · Source ↗
- William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle — documented participation · Source ↗
- Gough Whitlam — documented participation · Source ↗
- William McMahon — documented participation · Source ↗
- Piet de Jong — documented participation · Source ↗
- Adolf Hitler — documented participation · Source ↗
- Chaim Herzog — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ezer Weizman — documented participation · Source ↗
- Menachem Begin — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ramon Magsaysay — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ferdinand Marcos — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jean-Bedel Bokassa — documented participation · Source ↗
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