British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat...

British hardened field defences of World War II were small fortified structures constructed as a part of British anti-invasion preparations. They were...

obstacles: For British anti-tank obstacles, see: British anti-invasion preparations of World War II#Lines and islands. The Korean Demilitarized Zone is...

of the 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...

movement had a German invasion been successful British anti-invasion preparations of World War II Cross-Channel guns in the Second World War Junkers Ju 322 Mammut...

participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis and encapsulates a significant period in the history of the Empire of Japan, marked...

Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on...

world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to the end. The Second World...

months after the end of the war with their enemy Nazi Germany (World War II), which turned out to be 2 March 1946. On that date the British began to withdraw...

Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between...

became World War II in 1941. Other proposed starting dates for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British historian...

fortifications were constructed in Britain in 1940 as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. About 6,500 of these structures still survive...

The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air...

escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014. The invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, has caused hundreds of thousands...

through a pair of buoys formed a wheeled axle. A surviving example in Farnham, Surrey British anti-invasion preparations of World War II British hardened field...

2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, including 26 days of major...

timeline of events preceding World War II covers the events (mostly during the interwar period [1918–1939] after World War I) that affected or led to World War...

The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces...

the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation...

After the outbreak of World War II, the Ethiopian government-in-exile cooperated with the British during the British Invasion of Italian East Africa...

on 1 September 1939, starting World War II. The Soviets invaded eastern Poland on 17 September. Following the Winter War with Finland, the Soviets were...

start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World War on...

by sea to Aden. The Italian invasion of British Somaliland was one of the few successful Italian campaigns of World War II accomplished without German...

Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations...

Britain re-created the World War I Ministry of Information for the duration of World War II to generate propaganda to influence the population towards...

It is considered part of World War II, and often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century and...

and World War II (1939–1945). It is widely assumed that such a war would involve all of the great powers, like its predecessors, as well as the use of nuclear...

during World War II. The Italian invasion in October 1940, which is usually known as the Greco-Italian War, was followed by the German invasion in April...

officially adopted a neutral position during World War II until the five hour-long Japanese invasion of Thailand on 8 December 1941, which led to an armistice...

itself also had an anti-Nazi movement. Although Britain was not occupied during the war, the British made complex preparations for a British resistance movement...