List of World War II topics

The following article is a list of World War II topics.

Military engagements

For military topics (land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges), please see List of military engagements of World War II.

Political and social aspects of the war

  • Causes of World War II
  • Appeasement
  • Occupation of Denmark
  • Netherlands in World War II
  • War children in the times of peace
  • Gold Star Mothers Club for those mothers who lost their children, KIA
  • United States Political Leadership in World War II

Production and logistics

The Axis lost, at least partly because the Allies, after the USA's and the Soviet Union's entrance into the war, had greater productive resources, and were able to turn these resources into greater numbers of soldiers and weapons than the Axis. This was further compounded by the comparative lack of equipment standardization among the Axis forces and its failure to use its large territorial (and associated resources) gains in an economy on war footing. For instance [...] Germany was the only war economy which largely didn't make use of the labour of women.

  • Military production during World War II
  • American tank production during World War II
  • German tank production during World War II
  • Soviet tank production during World War II
  • WW2 aircraft production

Common military awards

Soviet Union

  • Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of Suvorov
  • Order of the October Revolution
  • Order of the Red Banner
  • Order of Victory

In Soviet Union orders and medals were also awarded to cities and military divisions.

United States

  • Medal of Honor
  • Silver Star
  • Bronze Star Medal
  • Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Air Medal
  • World War II Victory Medal
  • Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
  • European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
  • American Campaign Medal

United Kingdom

  • Victoria Cross
  • Air Force Cross
  • Order of the Bath
  • Order of the British Empire
  • Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Africa Star
  • Pacific Star

France and Belgium

  • Croix de Guerre

Poland

  • Cross of the Valorous
  • Order of Polonia Restituta
  • Virtuti Militari

[...] Germany

  • Iron Cross

Rank and insignia

  • United States Army enlisted rank insignia of World War II

See also

  • Axis Powers
  • British Women's Land Army
  • The Dambusters raid
  • Continuation War
  • Deutsches Afrika Korps
  • Devil's Brigade
  • Female roles in the world wars
  • Free French Forces
  • Generalplan Ost
  • Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei)
  • Holocaust
  • Italian aircraft production 1935 to 1945
  • Lapland War
  • Operation Shingle
  • Polish contribution to World War II
  • Potsdam Agreement
  • Pursuit of [...] collaborators
  • Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
  • Sonderaktion Krakau
  • Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.)
  • Timeline of the Second World War
  • World War

Lists

See: Lists of World War II topics