European Theatre of Operations

Second European War

Part of World War II

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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Italy.

Date

September 1, 1939 – May 15, 1945

Location

Europe and adjoining regions.

Result

Decisive Allied victory

Collapse of Nazi Germany
Collapse of Fascist Italy
End of World War II in Europe
Beginning of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War.

Belligerents

Allies
Soviet Union
(from 1941)
United States
British Commonwealth

Free France

Polish Forces in the East

Liberation Army

Greece
Czechoslovakia
Belgium
Netherlands
Norway
Brazil
Denmark
Luxembourg

Former Axis powers or co-belligerents

Italy (from 1943)

Romania (from 1944)

Bulgaria (from 1944)

Finland (from 1944)

Hungary (from 1945)

Finland (1939-40)

Axis
Germany
Italy (until 1943)

Albania (until 1943)

Hungary (until 1944)
Romania (until 1944)
Bulgaria (until 1944)

Axis puppet states

Italian Social Republic (from 1943)

Hungary (from 1944)

Hellenic State
(from 1941)

Croatia (from 1941)

Serbia (from 1941)

Albania (from 1943)

Co-belligerents

Finland (1941-44)

Supported by
Francoist Spain (1941-44)

Soviet Union
(1939-40)

Commanders and leaders

Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Winston Churchill
Albert Lebrun
Władysław Raczkiewicz
Slobodan Jovanović
Emmanouil Tsouderos
John Curtin
W.L. Mackenzie King
Victor Hope
Peter Fraser
Jan Smuts
Edvard Beneš

Hubert Pierlot
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy
Charles de Gaulle
Johan Nygaardsvold
Getúlio Vargas
Christian X of Denmark
Pierre Dupong
Pietro Badoglio
Constantin Sănătescu
Kimon Georgiev
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Béla Miklós

Kārlis Ulmanis

Konstantin Päts

Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Mustafa Merlika-Kruja
Miklós Horthy
Ion Antonescu
Bogdan Filov
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