User:Berek/World War II

This is intended to be a personal study of events relating to World War II.

Key individuals

 * Winston Churchill
 * Josef Stalin
 * Adolf Hitler
 * Benito Mussolini
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * Bernard Montgomery
 * Emperor Hirohito
 * Neville Chamberlain
 * Hermann Goering
 * Joseph Goebbels
 * Franklin D Roosevelt
 * Erwin Rommel

Timelines

 * | List of timelines of World War II {wiki}

Italian invasion of Ethiopia/Abyssinia (1935)
1935
 * Second Italo-Ethiopian War
 * Fascist troops march into Ethiopia (Chronicle of World)
 * Jan - France & Italy do a deal over Africa (Chronicle of 20thc)
 * Feb - Italians sail for Africa
 * July - Abyssinia vows to fight to last man
 * Oct - Mussolini's Fascist troops march into Abyssinia
 * Oct - Invasion is stiffest test League of Nations has yet faced
 * Nov - League states start applying economic sanctions to Italy
 * Dec - Hoare quits over Abyssinia (Chronicle of Britain)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
1936
 * Spanish Civil War
 * Feb - The left comes into power in Spain (20thc Day-by-Day)
 * July - Civil War erupts in Spain (Chronicle of World)
 * July - Fascist rebels spark civil war in Spain (20thc Day-by-Day)
 * Aug - Massacre in the bullring
 * Sep - Franco's rebels paused to attack Madrid
 * Oct - Franco's rebels driven back from Madrid

1937
 * Feb - Idealists flock to Spain (20thc Day-by-Day)
 * Apr - The horrors of Guernica(Chronicle of World)
 * Apr - Hitler's hand in horrors of Guernica (20thc Day-by-Day)
 * Bombing of Guernica
 * Oct - Franco tightens his grip on northern Spain
 * Dec - Arts: Nazis exhibit "Degenerate Art" (Picasso's Guernica

1938
 * Mar - Superior equipment winning for Franco (20thc Day-by-Day)
 * Apr - Franco's forces divide Republicans in two

1939
 * Jan - Barcelona is Franco's latest prize (Chronicle of World)
 * Jan - Victorious Franco sweeps into Barcelona (20thc Day-by-Day)
 * Feb - MP's cry "Shame" as Franco is recognised
 * Feb - Republican president resigns
 * Mar - Civil war ends as Franco takes Madrid

Japanese invasion of China (1937 & 1938)
1937
 * Feb - Chiang refuses alliance offer from Mao(20th c Day-by-Day)
 * Aug - Japanese bombers batter Shanghai
 * Sep - Chiang joins forces with Mao to oppose Japanese threat
 * Nov - photo of Chinese family caught in crossfire
 * Dec - Britain furious with Japan for sinking RN ships
 * Dec - Japanese seize Nanjing (Chronicle of World)

1938
 * June - Japanese bomb Canton mercilessly (20th c Day-by-Day)
 * Oct - Canton is occupied by the Japanese
 * Japanese invasion of Soviet Union & Mongolia (wiki, World War II}

European occupations and agreements (1938 & 1939)
1938
 * Feb - Eden quits over appeasing Il Duce (20thc day by day)
 * March - Austria joins the Reich (Chronicle of the World)
 * March - Austrians cheer as Hitler marches in (20thc day by day)
 * March - Chamberlain pledges to defend France
 * April - Naval bases ceded in Irish treaty
 * April - Britain returns navy bases in Irish treaty (Chronicle of Britain)
 * April - Referendum says 99% support Anschluss
 * April - Anglo-French pact to defend Czechs
 * May - Mussolini praised as UK signs pact
 * July - Last British troops withdraw from Eire(Chronicle of Britain)
 * Aug - Envoy recalled for Czech crisis talks
 * Sep - Czechoslovakia deal is signed in Munich
 * Sep - Chamberlain flies home and promises "Peace for our time"
 * Sep - Chamberlain bows to Hitler in Munich (Chronicle of Britain)
 * Sep Czechoslovakia deal averts war threat (Chronicle of Britain)
 * Oct - Germany marches into Czechoslovakia
 * Oct - Munich deal causes revolt in Tory ranks
 * Oct - Plan to partition Palestine dropped
 * Oct - Hitler in Czechoslovakia (Chronicle of the World)
 * Oct - MPs protest over appeasement of Hitler(Chronicle of Britain)
 * Nov - African home offer to Jewish refugees

1939
 * Jan - IRA bombs blast mainland cities (20th c day-by-day)
 * Jan - RAF takes 400 new planes a month
 * Feb - New constitution plan for Palestine
 * Feb - Free air raid shelters are to be distributed to London homes
 * Mar - Swastika flies in Prague (Chronicle of World)
 * Mar - Jeers greet Hitler's entry into Prague (20th c day-by-day)
 * Mar - Commons cheer as Chamberlain pledges to defend Poland
 * Mar - Territorial Army to be doubled
 * Mar - Fears of war intensify (Chronicle of Britain)
 * Apr - Bill to provide air raid shelters & evacuate children
 * Apr - Britain plans to introduce conscription
 * Apr - Crisis as Mussolini occupies Albania
 * May - Italy & Germany sign Pact of Steel
 * May - 10,000 women protest at Palestine plan
 * May - Stalin cautious on British proposals to join new pact
 * July - Hitler's designs on Danzig spark crisis
 * July - Illegal Palestine immigrants face curbs
 * July - Jews entering Palestine face British curbs (Chronicle of World)
 * Aug - Gathering war clouds loom over Europe (Chronicle of World)
 * Aug - Hitler and Stalin in non-agression pact (Chronicle of World)
 * Aug - Hitler and Stalin vow not to go to war (20th c day-by-day)
 * Aug - Europe walks in shadow of impending war
 * Aug - Forces on alert as Polish crisis deepens
 * Aug - Children lead evacuation from cities

World War II
  =1939=
 * Poland overrun by Germans, Soviets (Chronicle of War)
 * Soviets, Japanese skirmish in Manchuria
 * German naval defeat off South America
 * Plucky Finns halt Red Army
 * The war that had to come (20thc Pictorial History)
 * Invasion of Poland (Danzig, Allied reaction)
 * The British home front (Air raid wardens, rationing, blackout)
 * German occupation forces in Austria
 * Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945: Bismarck, HMS Hood, Prinz Eugen, HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Suffolk, HMS Norfolk (YouTube, Timeline} HMS Victorious


 * Jan - IRA bombs blast mainland cities (20th c Day-by-Day)
 * Feb - New constitution plan for Palestine
 * Feb - Free air raid shelters are to be distributed to London homes
 * Mar - Jeers greet Hitler's entry into Prague
 * Mar - Swastika flies in Prague (Chronicle of World)
 * Mar - Commons cheer as Chamberlain pledges to defend Poland (20th c Day-by-Day)
 * Mar - Territorial Army is to be doubled
 * April - Bill to provide air raid shelters & evacuate children
 * July -Jews entering Palestine face British curbs
 * Aug - Gathering war clouds loom over Europe
 * Aug - Hitler & Stalin in non-agression pact
 * Sept - PM: 'This country is now at war with Germany' (Chronicle of Britain)
 * Sept - Children evacuated from major cities
 * Sept - First British troops set out for France
 * Sept - Nations take sides as first shots of war are fired
 * Sept - Eire stays neutral but empire rallies
 * Sept - Europe is again at war (Chronicle of World)
 * Oct - British troops boost French defences(Chronicle of World)
 * Dec - 'Graf-Spee' scuttled as sea war hots up (Chronicle of Britain)
 * Dec - German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee scuttled
 * Dec - 'Phoney war' drags on, except at sea
 * Dec - Belts tighten on home front as petrol and food rationing loom

1940

 * Jan - Fierce Finnish stand frustrates Russia (20thc Day-by-Day)
 * Jan - Equal pay for war work, say women
 * Jan - War puts British on short rations
 * Jan - Six million hear Haw Haw's jaw jaw
 * Feb - All shipping fair game for U-boats declares Hitler
 * Feb - Careless words cost lives, Britons told
 * Feb - Daring raid liberates 300 British POWs
 * Feb - Russian casualties soar in Finland
 * Feb - Churchill in Paris to strengthen alliance
 * Feb - Hitler orders U-boats to hit neutral ships (Chronicle of World)
 * Mar - Red Army finally overwhelms the Finns (20thc Day-by-Day)
 * Mar - US peace envoy makes fruitless visit
 * Apr - Germans overrun Denmark and Norway(Chronicle of World)
 * Apr - Hitler invades Denmark and Norway (20thc Day-by-Day)
 * Apr - British troops join battle for Norway
 * Apr - Hitler has missed the bus claims PM
 * May - Low Countries invaded(Chronicle of World)
 * May - Dutch & Belgians fall to Blitzkrieg(20thc Day-by-Day)
 * May - Chamberlain hands over to Churchill
 * May - Bill gives government powers over all persons & property
 * May - Oswald Mosley is interned as British Fascists are held
 * May - British troops are encircled on the French coast
 * May - Belgium & Holland surrender to Nazis
 * June - Stalin strikes at the Baltic republics(Chronicle of World)
 * June - British evacuate France
 * June - Germans enter Paris: France humiliated
 * Aug - Italians advance in British Somaliland
 * Aug - Chinese communists fight the Japanese
 * Sept - German bombs begin London Blitz
 * Sept - Japanese join the Nazi-Fascist axis

Battle of France (1940)
1939
 * Sept - First British troops set out for France (Chronicle of Britain)
 * Oct - British troops boost French defences(Chronicle of World)

1940
 * Battle of France(wiki)
 * June - British evacuate France (Chronicle of World)
 * Battle of Dunkirk
 * - Dunkirk evacuation
 * June - Germans enter Paris: France humiliated (Chronicle of World)
 * Western Front (World War II)

Operation Barbarossa ((June 1941-1944))
Germany attacks Soviet Union

Battles of Tobruk (1941-42)

 * Battle of Tobruk (1941), the capture of Tobruk by the Allies in January 1941
 * Siege of Tobruk, by the Axis from April to November 1941
 * Battle of Tobruk (1942), the fall of Tobruk to the Axis in June 1942

Battle of El Alamein (1942)

 * First Battle of El Alamein: 1–27 July 1942
 * Second Battle of El Alamein: 23 October – 4 November 1942

Battle of the Coral Sea (1942)

 * Battle of the Coral Sea

Battle of Midway (1942)

 * Battle of Midway(wiki/YouTube)

Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43)

 * Battle of Stalingrad(wiki/YouTube)

Battle of Kursk (1943)

 * Battle of Kursk (wiki/YouTube)

D-Day & Battle of Normandy (1944)
1944 6 June - 6 August - Battle of Caen tactical area-bombing Battle of Carentan Falaise Pocket
 * Jan - First Overlord conference, London; by end of Feb over a million US troops have been shipped across Atlantic
 * Mar 6/7- Trappes, first pre-invasion bombing raid
 * June 6- D-Day
 * Omaha Beach
 * Gold Beach
 * Utah Beach
 * Normandy Campaign
 * Western Front (World War II)

Battle of the Bulge (Dec 1944-Jan 1945)
1944-1945
 * Battle of the Bulge

Battle of Berlin (1945)
1945
 * Battle of Berlin

Sinking of Yamato (1945)
6-7/April, 1945 - Sinking of Yamato (YouTube)

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, & the fall of Japan (1945)

 * Hiroshima
 * Nagasaki
 * Surrender of Japan