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

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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

• 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
• - July 7 - Caen tactical area-bombing
• 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