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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timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of...

This is a timeline of events that occurred during World War II in 1942. 1: Twenty-six Allied countries signed the Declaration by United Nations during...

This is a timeline of events that occurred during World War II in 1943. 1: German 1st Panzer Division withdraws from the Terek River area in southern Russia...

This is a timeline of events that occurred during 1944 in World War II. 3: Major Gregory Pappy Boyington, the USMC fighter ace, was shot down after downing...

This is a timeline of the events that stretched over the period of late World War II, its conclusion and legal aftermath, from January 1945 to 1991. 1:...

This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II in 1941, marked also by the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern...

This timeline of events preceding World War II covers the events (mostly during the interwar period [1918–1939] after World War I) that affected or led...

This is a Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II covering Britain 1939–45. For a narrative history and bibliography of the home...

This timeline is about events during World War II of direct significance to Sweden, which remained officially neutral throughout the war. For a larger...

This is a timeline showing surrenders of the various fighting groups of the Axis forces that also marked ending time of World War II: Jones, Michael (2015)...

Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. “More than six million women took wartime...

This is a timeline of declarations of war during World War II. A declaration of war is a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another. The...

The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Combat...

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world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to the end. The Second World...

siege of Malta in World War II was a military campaign in the Mediterranean theatre. From June 1940 to November 1942, the fight for the control of the strategically...

The North African campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan...

The List of theatres and campaigns of World War II subdivides military operations of World War II and contemporary wars by war, then by theater and then...

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the estimated global population...

This is a list of war crimes committed during World War II. The Axis powers (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan) were some of the most systematic...

Strategic Realities of World War II, HarperCollins, 2004, ISBN 0-06-000977-2, page 88 Roberts 2006, p. 53 Senn, Alfred Erich, Lithuania 1940 : revolution from...

heavily influenced by external factors. Italy joined the war as one of the Axis Powers in 1940 (as the French Third Republic surrendered) with a plan to...

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 stalled...

bibliography of works on World War II. The bibliography aims to include primary, secondary and tertiary sources regarding the European theatre of World War II (1939–1945)...

military victory of the Axis powers over the Allies of World War II (1939–1945) is a common topic in speculative literature. Works of alternative history...

This is a list of military engagements of World War II encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines...

The causes of World War II have been given considerable attention by historians. The immediate precipitating event was the invasion of Poland by Nazi...

World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the...