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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:

See also

Timeline of World War I (1914–1918)

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Western Europe • Eastern Europe • Mediterranean and Middle East • Asia and the Pacific • West Africa • East Africa • Atlantic • Americas • Casualties • Military engagements • Conferences • Commanders

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 • 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 • Philippines (1944–1945) • 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
War crimes	Allied war crimes • • Soviet war crimes • • British war crimes • • United States war crimes • German / Wehrmacht war crimes • • 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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