German code breaking in World War II achieved some notable successes cracking British naval ciphers until well into the fourth year of the war, using the...
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before the US entered the war. Product from this source was called Magic. On the other side, German code breaking in World War II achieved some notable successes...
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Nazi Germany developed numerous tank designs used in World War II. In addition to domestic designs, Germany also used various captured and foreign-built...
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The German Wehrmacht used an extensive variety of combat vehicles during World War II. The VK.31 Leichttraktor ("Light tractor") was an experimental German...
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Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a theatre of World War II fought...
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World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in...
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Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and...
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World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel on 8 May 1945 (VE Day) in...
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Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II and a pioneer of computer science. The play thematically...
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Ultra (cryptography) (redirect from Ultra (World War II intelligence))
The code name Boniface was used as a cover name for Ultra. In order to ensure that the successful code-breaking did not become apparent to the Germans, British...
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military history of the United States during World War II covers the nation's role as one of the major Allies in their victory over the Axis Powers. The United...
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The Balkans campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940. In the early months of 1941, Italy's offensive had...
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breakthroughs in the scale and technology of Enigma decryption. German code breaking in World War II also had some success, most importantly by breaking the Naval...
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World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was invaded and swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned among...
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during World War II, working in secrecy to break German and Japanese codes. These women were a crucial part of the war and broke numerous codes that were...
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a list of convoy codes used by the Allies during World War II There were over 300 convoy routes organized, in all areas of the world; each was designated...
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North African campaign (redirect from World War II in Africa)
of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers. It included campaigns in the...
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During World War II, the Spanish State under Francisco Franco espoused neutrality as its official wartime policy. This neutrality wavered at times, and...
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"home front" covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war. World War II was a total war; homeland military production became vital to both...
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Cryptanalysis (redirect from Code-breaking)
computers at Bletchley Park in World War II, to the mathematically advanced computerized schemes of the present. Methods for breaking modern cryptosystems often...
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Turing, who helped decode the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. He also was one of the key contributors...
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naval codes and ciphers was crucial to the conduct of World War II, and had an important influence on foreign relations between Japan and the west in the...
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necessitating German support to prevent an Italian collapse in North Africa. As the war carried on and German and Japanese actions in 1941 led to the...
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FHW (category Articles containing German-language text)
West (German: Fremde Heere West), a Nazi German military intelligence organization; see German code breaking in World War II Hanau West station, in Hanau...
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Cryptanalysis of the Enigma (redirect from Shark (code))
Enigma ciphering system enabled the western Allies in World War II to read substantial amounts of Morse-coded radio communications of the Axis powers that had...
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Wehrmacht (redirect from German aid to Soviet civilians in World War II)
in the German and English languages, with the German armed forces of 1935–45 since the Second World War, before 1945 the term was used in the German language...
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During the Second World War (1939–1945), India was a part of the British Empire. British India officially declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939...
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[Second World] War because our German scientists were better than their German scientists". The Allies of World War II cooperated extensively in the development...
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Operation Barbarossa (redirect from Invasion of the Soviet Union (World War II))
starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants...
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This is a timeline of World War II events that took place in 1940, the first full year of the second global war of the 20th century. 1 January: 10,000...
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