Home›Modern›Battle Era›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryThis dimension groups battles by the broader era in which they were fought. Wikipedia notes that battles such as "the Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, and the Battle of France" all took place within "World War II," one example of how battles cluster into a shared era. Browsing by era lets a visitor compare battles fought in the same period.Facts20th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEraWell-attested1775 to 1944 120th centuryFilter Results17 entriesBattle TypeAllAmphibious and airborne invasion (D-Day landings) (1)Amphibious campaign and siege (failed invasion) (1)Large-scale offensive and defensive battle (1)Naval battle (carrier-based air action) (1)Naval fleet battle (1)Naval fleet battle (dreadnought battleship action) (1)Offensive battle (desert warfare) (1)Prolonged offensive and defensive battle (attrition warfare) (1)Prolonged offensive battle (trench warfare) (1)Prolonged siege and blockade (1)Siege and land campaign culminating in surrender (1)Sustained aerial campaign (1)LocationAllBritish airspace and the English Channel (1)El Alamein, Egypt (1)Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire (modern Turkey) (1)Kursk Oblast, Soviet Union (1)Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg), Soviet Union (1)Midway Atoll (1)Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union (1)Normandy, France (1)North Sea, near the Jutland Peninsula, Denmark (1)Singapore (1)Somme river region, France (1)Southwest of Cambrai, Nord department, France (1)Stalingrad, on the Volga River, Soviet Union (1)The Ardennes, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany (1)Tsushima Strait (1)Verdun, France (1)WarAllEastern Front (World War II) (4)Russo-Japanese War (1)World War I (6)World War II (8)CommanderAllBernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (3)Dwight D. Eisenhower (2)Erich Ludendorff (2)Erwin Rommel (2)Ferdinand Foch (1)Georg von der Marwitz (1)Georgy Zhukov (4)Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1)Paul von Hindenburg (2)BrowseCompareSelect all 17Battle of Britain20th centuryBattle of Cambrai (1917)20th centuryBattle of Jutland20th centuryBattle of Kursk20th centuryBattle of Midway20th centuryBattle of Moscow20th centuryBattle of Stalingrad20th centuryBattle of the Bulge20th centuryBattle of the Somme20th centuryBattle of Tsushima20th centuryBattle of Verdun20th centuryFall of Singapore20th centuryFirst Battle of the Atlantic20th centuryGallipoli campaign20th centuryNormandy landings20th centurySecond Battle of El Alamein20th centurySiege of Leningrad20th centurySources1. War and Military Atlas Periodization (Ruling 761)tier 1InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentenceBoundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).War and Military DataBrief, structure wave 0902 paragraph, Modern-ends-1944 sentenceEvery Modern subcategory prose across all six 0831 spine types now ends at 1944, narrowed from the earlier open-ended from 1775 onward wording, for consistency with the boundary this and the 0901 wave both use.Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.