Western Front

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front theater of war

The Western Front was the main area of conflict in Western Europe during World War II, where Allied forces fought against Nazi Germany from the invasion of France to the final push into Germany.

Aliases (12)

Western Front (World War II) ×94
Western Front of World War II ×53
Western Front in World War II ×5
Western European Front (World War II) ×1
Western Front (1944–1945) ×1
Western Front (World War I) ×1
Western Front after 1944 ×1
Western Front against the Allies ×1
Western Front area ×1
Western Front in Europe ×1
Western Front in the Second World War ×1
World War II Western Front ×1

Statements (71)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	front → theater of war →
alsoKnownAs	Western European Front (World War II) →
belligerent	Belgium → Canada → Czechoslovak government-in-exile → France → Free French Forces → Italy (1943–1945, co-belligerent with Allies) → Luxembourg → Nazi Germany → Netherlands → Norway → Poland → United Kingdom → United States →
conflict	World War II →
countryInvolved	Belgium → Canada → Czechoslovakia → France → Germany → Italy → Luxembourg → Netherlands → Norway → Poland → United Kingdom → United States →
distinctFrom	Western Front (World War I) →
endDate	1945 →
geographicScope	Belgium → English Channel → France → Germany → Luxembourg → Netherlands → North Sea →
locatedIn	Western Europe →
notableEvent	Battle of Britain (air component affecting Western Front) → Battle of France → Battle of Normandy → Battle of the Bulge → Crossing of the Rhine → Dieppe Raid → Dunkirk evacuation → Fall of France → German invasion of Poland → Italian Campaign (overlapping with Western Allies operations) → Liberation of Paris → Normandy landings → Operation Cobra → Operation Market Garden → Operation Neptune → Operation Nordwind → Operation Overlord → Phoney War → Remagen bridgehead → Ruhr Pocket → Surrender of German forces in the West → Western Allied invasion of Germany →
opponent	Waffen-SS → Wehrmacht →
partOf	European theatre of World War II →
result	Defeat of Nazi Germany in Western Europe → Liberation of Belgium → Liberation of France → Liberation of Luxembourg → Liberation of the Netherlands → Occupation of western Germany by Allied forces →
startDate	1939 →

Referenced by (158)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Battle of Aachen ("Western Front of World War II") → Battle of Belleau Wood → Battle of Dunkirk ("Western Front of World War II") → Battle of France ("Western Front of World War II") → Battle of the Bulge ("Western Front of World War II") → Battle of the Reichswald ("Western Front of World War II") → Battle of the Scheldt ("Western Front of World War II") → Capture of Frankfurt ("Western Front of World War II") → Case Yellow ("Western Front of World War II") → Colmar Pocket ("Western Front of World War II") → Crossing of the Rhine ("Western Front of World War II") → Drôle de guerre ("Western Front of World War II") → Elsenborn Ridge ("Western Front of World War II") → German occupation of Dunkirk ("Western Front of World War II") → Gold ("Western Front of World War II") → Gold Beach ("Western Front of World War II") → Italian invasion of France ("Western Front of World War II") → Liberation of Belgium ("Western Front of World War II") → Liberation of France ("Western Front of World War II") → Liberation of Luxembourg ("Western Front of World War II") → Liberation of the Netherlands ("Western Front of World War II") → Lorraine campaign ("Western Front of World War II") → Omaha Beach ("Western Front of World War II") → Operation Cobra ("Western Front of World War II") → Operation Lüttich ("Western Front of World War II") → Operation Market Garden ("Western Front of World War II") → Operation Plunder ("Western Front of World War II") → Operation Veritable ("Western Front of World War II") → Retreat from Normandy ("Western Front of World War II") → Rhineland campaign ("Western Front of World War II") → Ruhr Pocket ("Western Front of World War II") → Saar Offensive ("Western Front of World War II") → Siegfriedstellung ("Western Front of World War II") → Sitzkrieg ("Western Front of World War II") → Southern France campaign ("Western Front of World War II") → Western Allied invasion of Germany ("Western Front of World War II") →	partOf
7th Panzer Division → Allied Naval Expeditionary Force ("Western Front (World War II)") → Army Group A → Battle of Nijmegen (September 1944) ("Western Front of World War II") → Battle of Sedan (1940) ("Western Front (World War II)") → Battle of the Falaise Pocket → Dieppe Raid → French First Army ("Western Front (World War II)") → German 1st Army ("Western Front (World War II)") → German Army Group G ("Western Front (World War II)") → II SS Panzer Corps → JG 26 → JG 52 → Jagdgeschwader 26 → Liberation of Paris ("Western Front of World War II") → Luftflotte 2 → Manstein Plan → Operation Nordwind → Operation Overlord → Operation Overlord → Operation Totalize →	theater
12th Army Group → Battle for Caen → Battle of Aachen → Battle of France → Battle of the Bulge → Battle of the Reichswald → British Second Army ("Western Front in World War II") → Capture of Frankfurt → Commander-in-Chief West ("Western Front against the Allies") → Crossing of the Rhine → German 352nd Infantry Division → Ghost Division → Jagdgeschwader 26 → Lorraine campaign → Operation Cobra → Operation Garden → Operation Plunder → Operation Veritable → Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb →	front
Army Group B → Commander-in-Chief Luftflotte 2 → Dietrich Hrabak → Dornier Do 217 → Gerhard Barkhorn → Gerhard von Schwerin ("Western Front in World War II") → Günther Rall → Josef Priller → No. 47 (Royal Marine) Commando ("Western Front (World War II)") → Operation Crossbow → Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade → Polish Armed Forces in the West → RAF Second Tactical Air Force ("Western Front (World War II)") → Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force → Walter Krupinski →	theaterOfOperations
21st Panzer Division ("Western Front (World War II)") → 2nd Armoured Division (France) ("Western Front (World War II)") → 6th Panzer Army → 716th Infantry Division → British Expeditionary Force (World War II) ("Western Front (World War II)") → First Canadian Army ("Western Front (World War II)") → No. 4 Commando → Operation Biting ("Western Front (World War II)") → Operation Bluecoat ("Western Front of World War II") → Operation Goodwood → Operation Goodwood ("Western Front of World War II") → Operation Sea Lion ("Western Front of World War II") → Phoney War →	theatre
D-Day ("Western Front of World War II") → Hell’s Highway ("Western Front of World War II") → Mike and Nan sectors ("Western Front of World War II") → Pegasus Bridge ("Western Front in World War II") → Queen Red ("Western Front (World War II)") →	theaterOfWar
Free French Forces ("Western Front (World War II)") → Leclerc ("Western Front of World War II") → Walther von Brauchitsch ("Western Front (World War II)") → Wilhelm Bittrich ("Western Front of World War II") →	participatedIn
Alphonse Joseph Georges ("Western Front in World War II") → Commander of 21st Army Group ("Western Front in World War II") → Red Devils ("Western Front (World War II)") →	associatedWith
Günther von Kluge ("Western Front (World War II)") → OKH ("Western Front (World War II)") → Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ("Western Front (World War II)") →	conflict
French Forces of the Interior ("Western Front of World War II") → Friedrich Wiese ("Western Front of World War II") → Unternehmen Seelöwe →	militaryTheater
Juno Beach ("Western Front of World War II") → Michael Wittmann → Operation Millennium ("Western Front of World War II") →	theatreOfWar
Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force ("Western Front of World War II") → Oberbefehlshaber West →	appliesToJurisdiction
Battle of the Bulge → Soviet winter counteroffensive of 1941–1942 ("Western Front area") →	location
StuG III ("Western Front (1944–1945)") → Tiger I ("Western Front after 1944") →	notableTheater
Hugo Sperrle ("Western Front (World War II)") → Walter Bedell Smith ("Western Front (World War II)") →	participantIn
No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron → Waffen-SS →	theatreOfOperations
Panzer IV → Sd.Kfz. 251 →	usedOnFront
Western Front (World War II) ("Western European Front (World War II)") →	alsoKnownAs
Panther tank →	alsoUsedOn
German Cross in Gold →	awardedForTheater
Utah Beach ("Western Front (World War II)") →	battleTheater
European theatre of World War II →	campaign
Battle of Berlin (air campaign) →	campaignTheatre
Western Front (World War II) ("Western Front (World War I)") →	distinctFrom
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 →	firstOperationalUse
European Theater of Operations →	frontType
Bore War →	hasContext
Eastern France ("World War II Western Front") →	historicalEvent
3rd Infantry Division ("Western Front in the Second World War") →	notableEngagement
27th Armoured Brigade ("Western Front in Europe") →	notableTheatre
88 mm Flak gun →	notableUseTheater
90th Infantry Division (United States) ("Western Front of World War II") →	operatedIn
I SS Panzer Corps →	operatedOn
Kampfgeschwader 53 →	operationalTheater
Heinkel He 177 →	operationalUse
Westwall ("Western Front of World War II") →	partOfConflict
Hürtgen Forest ("Western Front of World War II") →	partOfMilitaryCampaign
Fairey Battle ("Western Front (World War II)") →	usedInTheatre