Timeline of World War II

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This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II. Because of length it is subdivided into pages by year, as well as events preceding the war:

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Allies (leaders)	Australia Belgium Brazil Canada China Czechoslovakia Ethiopia Finland (1944–1945) France Greece India Italy (from September 1943) Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines (Commonwealth) 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 Free India Iraq Italy (until September 1943) Italian Social Republic Japan Manchukuo Philippines (Second Republic) 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

Timeline

Prelude	Africa Asia Europe

1939	Poland Phoney War Winter War Atlantic Changsha China

1940	Weserübung Netherlands Belgium France Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Baltic States Moldova Indochina Greece Compass

1941	East Africa Yugoslavia Yugoslav Front Greece Crete Iraq Soviet Union (Barbarossa) Finland Lithuania Syria and Lebanon Kiev Iran Leningrad Moscow Sevastopol Pearl Harbor Hong Kong Philippines Changsha Malaya Borneo (1941–42)

1942	Burma Changsha Coral Sea Gazala Midway Blue Stalingrad Dieppe El Alamein Guadalcanal Torch

1943	Tunisia Kursk Smolensk Solomon Islands Sicily Lower Dnieper Italy Gilbert and Marshall Islands Changde

1944	Monte Cassino / Shingle Narva Korsun-Cherkassy Tempest Ichi-Go Overlord Neptune Normandy Mariana and Palau Bagration Western Ukraine Tannenberg Line Warsaw Eastern Romania Belgrade Paris Gothic Line Market Garden Estonia Crossbow Pointblank Lapland Hungary Leyte Ardennes Burma (1944–1945)

1945	Bodenplatte Vistula-Oder Iwo Jima Okinawa Italy (Spring 1945) Syrmian Front Berlin Czechoslovakia Budapest West Hunan Surrender of Germany Project Hula Manchuria Manila Borneo Atomic bombings Kuril Islands Shumshu Surrender of Japan

Aspects

General	Air warfare of World War II Attacks on North America Blitzkrieg Comparative military ranks Cryptography Home front Lend-Lease 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 of Germany Soviet occupations Romania Poland Hungary Baltic States Occupation of Japan First Indochina War Indonesian National Revolution Cold War Decolonization Popular culture

War crimes	Allied war crimes Soviet war crimes United States war crimes German / Wehrmacht war crimes The Holocaust Italian war crimes Japanese war crimes Unit 731 Croatian war crimes (against the Serbs / against the Jews) Serbian 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 Rape during the liberation of France Rape during the liberation of Poland

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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