World War II Timeline 1917-45
1917-1930
Revolution and Revanchism 1917-1929
Text
of complete Versailles Treaty of 1919
A.J.P. Taylor thesis
U.S. Isolationism 1921-33
1931-1938
Manchuria Sept. 18, 1931
Manchukuo 1932
Rise of Hitler 1933
U.S. Isolationism 1934
Mussolini and Ethiopia 1935
Response to Ethiopia 1936
Spanish Civil War 1936-37
China Incident 1937
U.S. Policy Changed 1937-38
Hitler and the Anschluss 1938
1939
Eve of War 1939
Poland 1939
End of Saito's World - 1939 Pacific
1940
France 1940
Battle of Britain 1940
Aide to England 1940
Japan Joins the Axis - 1940 Pacific
1941
Europe First 1941
Spring Crisis 1941
July Threshold 1941
Undeclared Naval War 1941
Japan Moves South - 1941 Pacific
Pearl Harbor Attack - 1941 Pacific
December Disaster - 1941 Pacific
1942
Japan Victorious - 1942 Pacific
America Responds - 1942 Pacific
Guadalcanal - 1942 Pacific
Midway - 1942 Pacific
Churchill's Plan - 1942 Europe
Churchill or Stalin? - Europe 1942
North African Landings - 1942
Mobilization of the Homefront
1943
Victory in Tunisia
Road to Messina
Stalemate in Italy
Battle of the Atlantic
Cartwheel - 1943 Pacific
Central Pacific - 1943 Pacific
Submarine War in the Pacific
Aircraft Carriers of WWII
Conferences of WWII
Teheran and the Big 3
1944
New Approaches
Combined Bomber Offensive
Crusade for Europe Begins
The Battle of France
War of Attrition
Battle of France Ends
Pacific
Burma
1945
Defeat of Germany
Atomic Bomb
Defeat of Japan
Aftermath of War
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