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

Key individuals

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Timelines

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Italian invasion of Ethiopia/Abyssinia (1935)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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1939

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  • 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

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  • 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)

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1939

  • Sept - First British troops set out for France (Chronicle of Britain)
  • Oct - British troops boost French defences(Chronicle of World)

1940

Attack on Pearl Harbor (Dec 1941)

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Operation Barbarossa ((June 1941-1944))

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Germany attacks Soviet Union

Siege of Leningrad (1941-44)

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Battles of Tobruk (1941-42)

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Battle of El Alamein (1942)

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Battle of the Coral Sea (1942)

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Battle of Midway (1942)

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Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43)

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Battle of Kursk (1943)

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D-Day & Battle of Normandy (1944)

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1944 

 6 June - 6 August - Battle of Caen tactical area-bombing
 Battle of Carentan
 Falaise Pocket

Battle of the Bulge (Dec 1944-Jan 1945)

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1944-1945

Battle of Berlin (1945)

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1945

Sinking of Yamato (1945)

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

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

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