Home›Battles and Campaigns›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)FactsComparisonEarliest Era RepresentedWell-attestedAncient 120th centuryFilter Results22 entriesBattle TypeAllAmphibious and airborne invasion (D-Day landings) (1)Amphibious assault (1)Amphibious assault and prolonged land battle (2)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)Siege of a fortified valley position (1)Sustained aerial campaign (1)Urban battle (final assault on the enemy capital) (1)LocationAllBerlin, Germany (1)British airspace and the English Channel (1)Dien Bien Phu, French Indochina (present-day Vietnam) (1)El Alamein, Egypt (1)Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire (modern Turkey) (1)Incheon, South Korea (1)Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, Japan (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)Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan (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) (5)First Indochina War (1)Korean War (1)Russo-Japanese War (1)World War I (6)World War II (11)CommanderAllBernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (3)Douglas MacArthur (1)Dwight D. Eisenhower (2)Erich Ludendorff (2)Erwin Rommel (2)Ferdinand Foch (1)Georg von der Marwitz (1)Georgy Zhukov (5)Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1)Paul von Hindenburg (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 22Battle of Berlin20th centuryBattle of Britain20th centuryBattle of Cambrai (1917)20th centuryBattle of Dien Bien Phu20th centuryBattle of Inchon20th centuryBattle of Iwo Jima20th centuryBattle of Jutland20th centuryBattle of Kursk20th centuryBattle of Midway20th centuryBattle of Moscow20th centuryBattle of Okinawa20th 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 Periodizationtier 1InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, battle has a live Ancient subcategoryQuote, War and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, battle has a live Ancient subcategoryAncient 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).Wikipedia: Battle of Waterlootier 2WikipediaContains: Battle of WaterlooView the SourceWikipedia: Battle of Kursktier 2WikipediaContains: Battle of KurskView the SourceWikipedia: Battle of Cambrai (1917)tier 2WikipediaContains: Battle of Cambrai (1917)View the SourceWikipedia: Atlantic U-boat Campaign of World War Itier 2WikipediaContains: First Battle of the AtlanticView the SourceComments (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.