Timeline of World War II

Timelines of World War II
	Chronological
	Before (Asia · Europe); 1939 · 1940 · 1941; 1942 · 1943 · 1944 · 1945
	Topical
	Engagements & Operations; Eastern Front; European Air Operations; Manhattan Project

World War II series v; t; e;
	Precursors
	Asian events · European events · Timeline
v; t; e; Campaigns of World War II
	Europe Poland Phoney War Denmark & Norway; France & Benelux Britain Balkans Yugoslav Front Eastern Front Finland Western Front (1944–45) Asia & The Pacific China Pacific Ocean South-East Asia South West Pacific Japan Manchuria (1945) Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa Other Campaigns Atlantic Strategic Bombing America Contemporaneous Wars Chinese Civil Winter War Soviet–Japanese Border French–Thai Ili Rebellion
	1939 · 1940 · 1941 · 1942 · 1943 · 1944 · 1945; Eastern front · Western Front · Pacific War · Battles · Mediterranean, Middle East and African Campaigns · Commanders; Technology · Military operations · Manhattan Project; Air warfare of World War II · Home front · Collaboration · Resistance
	Aftermath
	Casualties · Further effects · War crimes · Japanese war crimes · Consequences of Nazism
	Depictions
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v; t; e; History of World War II by country and region
	Albania; Argentina; Australia; Austria (Anschluss); Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burma; Cambodia; Canada; Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Channel Islands; China; Czechoslovakia; Denmark; Dutch East Indies (Indonesia); Egypt; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Gibraltar; Greece; Greenland; Hong Kong; Hungary; Iceland; India; Iran; Iraq; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Laos; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak (Malaysia); Manchukuo; Mexico; Mongolia; Nauru; Nepal; Netherlands; New Zealand; Newfoundland; Norway; Philippines; Poland; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Romania; Singapore; Slovakia; South Africa; Soviet Union; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Thailand; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom; United States; Vatican City; Vietnam; Yugoslavia;
v; t; e; World War II
	Western Europe; Eastern Europe; Africa; Mediterranean; Asia and the Pacific; Atlantic; Casualties; Military engagements; Topics; Conferences; Commanders;
Allies (Leaders)	Australia; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; China; Czechoslovakia; Ethiopia; Finland (1944-1945); France; Greece; India; Luxembourg; Mexico; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Philippines; Poland; South Africa; Soviet Union; United Kingdom; United States; Yugoslavia;
Axis and; Axis-aligned; (Leaders)	Bulgaria; Reorganized National Government of China; Independent State of Croatia; Finland; Germany; Hungary; Iraq; Italy; Italian Social Republic; Japan; Manchukuo; Romania; Slovakia; Thailand; Vichy France;
Resistance	Albania; Austria; Baltic States; Belgium; Czech lands; Denmark; Estonia; Ethiopia; France; Germany; Greece; Hong Kong; India; Italy; Jewish; Korea; Latvia; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Norway; Philippines; Poland (Anti-communist); Romania; Thailand; Soviet Union; Slovakia; Western Ukraine; Vietnam; Yugoslavia;
Prelude	Africa; Asia; Europe;
1939	Invasion of Poland; Phoney War; Winter War; Atlantic; Changsha (1939); China;
1940	Weserübung; Netherlands; Belgium; France; UK; North Africa; British Somaliland; Baltic States; Moldova; Indochina; Greece; Compass;
1941	East Africa; Invasion of Yugoslavia; Yugoslav Front; Greece; Crete; Soviet Union (Barbarossa); Finland; Lithuania; Middle East; Kiev; Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran; Leningrad; Moscow; Sevastopol; Pearl Harbor; Hong Kong; Philippines; Changsha (1941); Malaya; Borneo;
1942	Burma; Changsha (1942); Coral Sea; Gazala; Midway; Blue; Stalingrad; Dieppe; El Alamein; Guadalcanal; Torch;
1943	End in Africa; Kursk; Smolensk; Solomon Islands; Sicily; Lower Dnieper; Italy; Gilbert and Marshall; Changde;
1944	Monte Cassino and Shingle; Narva; Cherkassy; Tempest; Ichi-Go; Normandy; Mariana and Palau; Bagration; Western Ukraine; Tannenberg Line; Warsaw; Eastern Romania; Yugoslavia; Paris; Gothic Line; Market Garden; Estonia; Crossbow; Pointblank; Lapland; Hungary; Leyte; Bulge; Burma;
1945	Vistula-Oder; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Surrender of Italy; Berlin; Czechoslovakia; Budapest; West Hunan; Surrender of Germany; Manchuria; Philippines; Borneo; Atomic bombings; Surrender of Japan;
General	Air warfare of World War II; Attacks on North America; Blitzkrieg; Comparative military ranks; Cryptography; Home front; Manhattan Project; Military awards; Military equipment; Military production; Nazi plunder; Technology; Total war; Strategic bombing; Bengal famine of 1943;
Aftermath	Effects; Expulsion of Germans; Operation Paperclip; Operation Keelhaul; Occupation of Germany; Morgenthau Plan; Territorial changes; Soviet occupations (Romania, Poland, Hungary, Baltic States); Occupation of Japan; First Indochina War; Indonesian National Revolution; Cold War; Decolonization; Popular culture;
War crimes	German and Wehrmacht war crimes; The Holocaust; Italian war crimes; Japanese war crimes; Unit 731; Allied war crimes; Soviet war crimes; United States war crimes;
War rape	German military brothels; Camp brothels; Rape during the occupation of Japan; Comfort women; Rape of Nanking; Rape during the occupation of Germany;
Prisoners	Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union; German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union; German prisoners of war in the United States; Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union; Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union; Japanese prisoners of war in World War II; Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs; Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union; Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union;
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