Mediterranean Theatre (World War II)

Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre

Part of the Second World War

A map showing the territories held by Allied (green), Axis (orange), and neutral (grey) powers at the outbreak of hostilities in the Mediterranean

Date	10 June 1940 – 25 May 1945 (4 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Southern Europe, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, North Africa 35°N 18°E / 35°N 18°E / 35; 18Coordinates: 35°N 18°E / 35°N 18°E / 35; 18
Result	Allied victory
Territorial changes	Fall of the Italian Empire

Belligerents

Allies:
United Kingdom

India

Soviet Union (1941–45)
United States (1942–45)
Free France
Poland
Australia
Canada
Greece (1940–45)
Yugoslavia (1941–45)
New Zealand
South Africa
Brazil (1942–45)
Italy (1943–45)

Axis Powers:
Germany
Italy (1940–43)

Albania

Italian Social Republic (1943–45)
Hungary (1940–45)
Bulgaria (1941–44)
Croatia (1941–45)
Albania (1943–44)
Iraq (1941)
...and others

Vichy France (1940 – 1942)

Iran (1941)

Commanders and leaders

Archibald Wavell
Claude Auchinleck
Harold Alexander
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mark Wayne Clark
Fyodor Tolbukhin
Vladimir Zhdanov
Josip Broz Tito
Alexander Papagos
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

Władysław Anders

Adolf Hitler
Albert Kesselring
Erwin Rommel
Wilhelm List
Maximilian von Weichs
Alexander Löhr
Werner Junck
Benito Mussolini
Rodolfo Graziani
Pietro Badoglio
Ugo Cavallero †
François Darlan
Henri Dentz
Rashid Ali

Allies:
United Kingdom

Soviet Union (1941–45)
United States (1942–45)
Free France
Poland
Australia
Canada
Greece (1940–45)
Yugoslavia (1941–45)
New Zealand
South Africa
Brazil (1942–45)
Italy (1943–45)

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