Home›Modern›Battle Era›By Decade›1940sBrowse By1940sThis 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.Facts1940sSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEraWell-attested1775 to 1944 11940sFilter Results10 entriesBattle TypeAllAmphibious and airborne invasion (D-Day landings) (1)Large-scale offensive and defensive battle (1)Naval battle (carrier-based air action) (1)Offensive battle (desert 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)Kursk Oblast, Soviet Union (1)Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg), Soviet Union (1)Midway Atoll (1)Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union (1)Normandy, France (1)Singapore (1)Stalingrad, on the Volga River, Soviet Union (1)The Ardennes, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany (1)WarAllEastern Front (World War II) (4)World War II (8)CommanderAllBernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (3)Dwight D. Eisenhower (2)Erwin Rommel (2)Georgy Zhukov (4)BrowseCompareSelect all 10Battle of Britain1940sBattle of Kursk1940sBattle of Midway1940sBattle of Moscow1940sBattle of Stalingrad1940sBattle of the Bulge1940sFall of Singapore1940sNormandy landings1940sSecond Battle of El Alamein1940sSiege of Leningrad1940sSources1. 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.