Western Front of World War II

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front theater of war

The Western Front of World War II was the major European theater where Allied and German forces fought across Western Europe, including campaigns from the invasion of France and the Low Countries to the liberation of occupied territories and the final advance into Germany.

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Label	Occurrences
Western Front of World War II canonical	36
Western Front (World War II)	9
Western Front in World War II	3
Northwest Europe (World War II)	1
Second World War Western Front	1
Western Europe (Second World War)	1
Western Front (Second World War)	1
Western Front (World War II air war)	1
Western Front during World War II	1
World War II Western Front operations	1

Statements (72)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	front ⓘ theater of war ⓘ
belligerent	Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ Czechoslovak government-in-exile NERFINISHED ⓘ Fascist Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ France ⓘ Free French Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ Luxembourg NERFINISHED ⓘ Nazi Germany ⓘ Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
conflictBetween	Allied powers NERFINISHED ⓘ Nazi Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ
endDate	1945-05-08 ⓘ
frontOpposedTo	Eastern Front of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ
includesEvent	Allied invasion of Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ Allied invasion of Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Bulge NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Scheldt NERFINISHED ⓘ Crossing of the Rhine NERFINISHED ⓘ D-Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Dieppe Raid NERFINISHED ⓘ Dunkirk evacuation NERFINISHED ⓘ Fall of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Invasion of Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ Italian Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Liberation of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Liberation of Western Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Normandy landings NERFINISHED ⓘ Operation Cobra NERFINISHED ⓘ Operation Market Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ Operation Overlord NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoney War NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Allied invasion of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ
location	Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ English Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Italy ⓘ Luxembourg NERFINISHED ⓘ Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFeature	combined arms operations by Allied forces ⓘ large-scale amphibious operations ⓘ strategic bombing campaigns over Western Europe ⓘ
opponent	Waffen-SS NERFINISHED ⓘ Wehrmacht ⓘ
partOf	European theatre of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ World War II ⓘ
result	Allied victory ⓘ defeat of Nazi Germany ⓘ liberation of Belgium ⓘ liberation of France ⓘ liberation of the Netherlands ⓘ occupation of Western Germany by Allied forces ⓘ
significantCommander	Albert Kesselring NERFINISHED ⓘ Bernard Montgomery NERFINISHED ⓘ Dwight D. Eisenhower NERFINISHED ⓘ Erwin Rommel NERFINISHED ⓘ George S. Patton NERFINISHED ⓘ Gerd von Rundstedt NERFINISHED ⓘ Omar Bradley NERFINISHED ⓘ
startDate	1939-09-01 ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Allied liberation of the Low Countries → partOf → Western Front of World War II ⓘ

Heinz Eberbach → conflict → Western Front of World War II ⓘ

501e Régiment de chars de combat → conflict → Western Front of World War II ⓘ

tank "Montmirail" → theatreOfOperations → Western Front of World War II ⓘ

subject surface form: Montmirail

this entity surface form: Western Front (World War II)

Liberation of Strasbourg → partOf → Western Front of World War II ⓘ