Prior to World War II, the Indian Ocean was an important maritime trade route between European nations and their colonial territories in East Africa,...

The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was defined by...

United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September, 1939 with the declaration of war by the United...

The Indian Ocean raid, also known as Operation C or Battle of Ceylon in Japanese, was a naval sortie carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from...

of World War II. Over 87,000 Indian troops, and 3 million civilians died in World War II. Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, former Commander-in-Chief...

This is a list of war crimes committed during World War II. The Axis powers (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan) were some of the most systematic...

Battle of the Indian Ocean Battle of Britain Strategic bombing during World War II Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Chinese Civil War (April 12,...

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) or ~20% of the water on Earth's...

Almost every country in the world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to...

of World War II. Timeline of events preceding World War II Timeline of World War II (1939) Timeline of World War II (1940) Timeline of World War II (1941)...