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3 1920-1938

1920 Battle of Zadwórze - Polish army defeated by the Red Army forces of Semyon Budennyi
1920 Battle of Warsaw - Poles defeat Red Army
1920 Battle of the Niemen river - Poles defeat the reserves of the Red Army
1921 Battles of Inonu - Turkish War of Independence
1921 Battle of Anual July 21 in Morocco, Spanish army loses to Rifi berbers of Abd el Krim.
1921 Battle of Sakarya - Farthest Greek advance in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) (" Turkish War of Independence")
1922 Battle of Dumlupinar - Final battle of Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) (" Turkish War of Independence")
1936 Battle of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War
1937 Battle of Guadalajara in the Spanish Civil War
1937 Battle of Lugou Bridge July 7 - Japanese victory triggered outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War
1937 Battle of Nanjing early November to December 13 - Japanese victory after 2 months siege of the capital of Republic of China.
1938 Battle of Tai er zhuang March 27 - Chinese claim strategic and moral victory over Japanese
1938 Battle of the Ebro - Spanish Republicans launch attacks across the Ebro river. The purpose of the battle is to relieve pressure off of Valencia and Catalonia. Republican forces are initially successful. However, Nationalist forces, under superior air coverage, eventually beat them back. The battle lasts until November 1938.

4 1939-1945

Second World War

1939 Battle of Halhin Gol
1939 Poland September 1 - October 6 - Start of World War II in Europe (see: Polish September Campaign for details)
- Battle of the Bzura River
- Battle of Tomaszow Lubelski
- Battle of Kock
- Battle of Warsaw (1939)
1939 Battle of the River Plate December 13 - Admiral Graf Spee chased into Montevideo harbour and scuttled
1939 Battle of Suomussalmi December 8 - January 7 1940 - Winter War
1939 Battle of Tolvajärvi December 12 - Winter War
1940 - 1945 Battle of the Atlantic (1940)- the name given to the conflicts in the Atlantic Ocean throughout World War II.
1940 Battle of Honkaniemi February 26 - Only tank action of the Winter War.
1940 Battle of Narvik April 9 - June 10 - A minor Allied victory in the arctic.
1940 Battle at the Afsluitdijk May 10 - May 14
1940 Battle of France May 9 - May 15 - Germany take France, Expeditionary Force and French Army Defeated
1940 Battle of Dunkirk May 27 - June 5 - Escape of defeated British Expeditonary Force
1940 Battle of Britain July 9 - October 31 Germans try to bomb Britain into submission - RAF answers with fighters
1940 Battle of Taranto November 11- November 12 - British carrier based planes destroy Italian fleet in Taranto Harbor.
1940 Battle of Hundred Regiments - Major engagement of the Red Army against the Japanese Imperial Army in August and September.
1941 Battle of Cape Matapan March 28 - British fleet defeats Italian fleet.
1941 Battle of Denmark Strait May 23 - Bismarck sinks HMS Hood
1941 Battle of Grece April 6 - April 24 - Germany takes the Balcanic Peninsula after Italian Stalemate.
1941 Battle of Crete May 20 - June 1 - Paratroops capture Crete, suffer many casualties.
1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22 - German invasion of the Soviet Union
1941- 1942 Battle of Moscow Soviet defenders drive back German Army Group Centre
1941 Battle of Pearl Harbor December 7 - Japanese destroy US Fleet in surprise attack
1941 Battle of Singapure December 10 - Japanese torpedo craft sunk HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.
1942 Battle of Macassar Strait January - US and Dutch forces attack Japanese convoy
1942 Dražgoše January 9 - First frontal engagement on Slovenian soil with the German occupier
1942 Battle of the Java Sea February 4 - March 1 Japanese wipe out Allied naval squadron
1942 Japanese Raids into Indian Ocean March 31 - Japanese Raids against the British Eastern Fleet. Heavy British Looses.
1942 Battle of Corregidor April 9 - General Wainwright's troops surrender, forced on Bataan Death March
1942 Battle of Nanos April 18 - 800 Italian soldiers lay siege to 50 Slovene partisans.
1942 Battle of the Coral Sea May 4 - US loses USS Lexington; Japanese win tactically but lose strategically.
1942 Battle of Midway June 3 - US loses USS Yorktown; Japanese lose four aircraft carriers
1942 Convoy PQ-17 - 27 ships leave Iceland on June 17 for Murmansk – on July 5 10 ships reach Murmansk
1942 First Battle of El Alamein July 1 - British Eighth Army stops Rommel's Axis forces invading Egypt
1942 Battle of Sevastapol July 2 - Captured by Germans after eight month siege
1942 Battle of Changsha - Chinese claim victory over Japanese
1942 Battle of Guadalcanal August 8 - Beginning of Allied action in Solomon Islands
1942 Battle of Savo Island August 9 - Japanese sink four US cruisers
1942 Battle of Dieppe August 19 - "Operation Jubilee" was an Allied attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe in France. Allied Failure ,Information used for D-Day.
1942 Battle of Stalingrad August 22 - February 2 1943 - City besieged by Paulus' German Sixth Army; from November 23 the Sixth Army is surrounded and destroyed by Soviets; bloodiest battle in history, 1.8 millions dead approx.
1942 Battle of the Eastern Solomons August 24 - Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho sunk
1942 Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea August 25
1942 Battle of Bloody Ridge September 12
1942 Battle of Cape Esperance October 11 - near Guadalcanal
1942 Second Battle of El Alamein October 23 - November 4 - Montgomery's Eighth Army forces Rommel out of Egypt
1942 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands October 25 - near Guadalcanal, USS Hornet sunk, but Japanese withdraw victorious
1942 Operation Torch November 17 - Allied landings in North Africa
1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal November 12 - US defeats Japan. Turning Point
1942 Battle of Tassafaronga November 30 - off Guadalcanal
1943 Battle of Osankarica January 8 - Over 200 Germans massacred all 69 men and women of the Pohorje battalion. Germans lost 19 men and had 31 wounded
1943 Battle of Rennell Island January 29- 30 - Japanese bombers sink a cruiser
1943 Battle of Guadalcanal February 8 - Allies take the island
1943 Battle of the Kasserine Pass February 14 - 25 - Battle between US and German armored forces in Tunisia
1943 Battle of Bismarck Sea March 2 - US sinks Japanese transports
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 18 - 5000 Jews and 5000 Germans die, Jews confined
1943 Battle of Castle Turjak September 19 - Slovene partisans took the castle guarded by the Slovene village sentries
1943 Battle of Kursk July - Germans attack Kursk salient at Orel and Belgorod; Russians drive them back; arguably the largest tank battle ever fought. Heavy Looses
1943 Raid on Schweinfurt October 14- The greatest Air battle among the Luftwaffe and the USAF. The famous Air Battle known as "Black Thursday."
1944 Battle of Cisterna January 29- Part of Operation Shingle- the 1st, 3rd, and 4th US Army Ranger battalions attempted to capture the town of Cisterna.
1944 Battle of Monte Cassino May 11 - 18
1944 Battle of Normandy June 6 - August 25 - Allies invade northern France across the Normandy beaches ( Operation Overlord); hard fighting from Cherbourg to Caen; Germans surrounded and destroyed at Falaise
1944 Battle of Philippine Sea June 19 - Major carrier battle; US lose 123 planes and destroy 315 Japanese planes
1944 Marianas Campaign - US invasions of Saipan, June 15, Guam July 21, and Tinian July 24
1944 Operation Bagration June 22 - Eastern Front - Soviet offensive destroys German Army Group Center.
1944 Battle of Fontenay June 25
1944 Battle of Tali-Ihantala June 25 - July 10 - Finnish stop Soviet offensive
1944 Warsaw Uprising August 1 - October 5 - 20.000 armed Poles against 55.000 Wehrmacht and SS. City destroyed in 90%, more than 250.000 casualties.
1944 Operation Dragoon (a.k.a. Operation Anvil) August 15 - Allied invasion of Southern France
1944 Battle of Peleliu September 17 - A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific.
1944 Battle of Arnhem September 17 - 26 - The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed
1944 Hürtgen Forest October 6 - Stubborn German defence, appalling loses to US army
1944 Battle of Aachen- October. Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during WW II.
1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf October 23 - 26 - The largest air-sea battle in history.
1944 Operation Queen November 16
1944 Battle of Monte Castello November 25 - February 12 1945 - Brazilian troops fight Germans in Italy
1944 Battle of the Bulge December 16 - January 27 1945 - German counterattack in Ardennes; General McAuliffe says "NUTS" at Bastogne
1945 Operation Elephant January 26 - Allied offensive in Netherlands
1945 Battle of Mindanao March 10 - US invasion of the Philippines
1945 Battle of Iwo Jima March 26 - After a month, US takes the island
1945 Operation Varsity March 17 - 134 Allied gliders land troops in Weisel
1945 Battle of Berlin April 26 - May 2 - Soviet forces encircle and capture German capital; Hitler commits suicide
1945 Battle of Triest April 30 - May 2 - British army and Yugoslav capture the city
1945 Battle of Poljana - Last battle of World War II in Europe
1945 Battle of Okinawa June 21 - US takes Japanese Island in the Ryukyus; many casualties to both sides.

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