Pre-War : Rise of Nazism ; Spanish Civil War ; Jewish persecution ; Invasion of Manchuria ; Germany annexes Czechoslovakia
1939 : Germany invades Poland ; Phoney war ; Evacuation of Paris and London ; Winter War
1940 : Churchill appointed Prime Minister ; Battle of the Atlantic ; Dunkirk evacuations ; Fall of France ; Battle of Britain ; Hitler's push East ; Operation Compass
1941 : North African Campaign ; War in the Mediterranean ; Operation Barbarossa ; US signs the Atlantic Charter ; Japan attacks Pearl Harbor ; Japan's offensive in the Far East
1942 : Singapore falls to Japan ; Tobruk falls to Germany ; Montgomery appointed : victory at El Alamein ; Submarine warfare ; Germany's push in Eastern Europe ; Battle of Stalingrad
1943 : German defeat at Stalingrad ; German surrender in North Africa ; Battle of Kursk ; Operation Pointblank ; Sicily landings ; US "island-hopping" campaign ; New Guinea and the Solomons
1944 : Monte Cassino and Anzio ; Rome falls to the Allies ; Operation Overlord ; Operation Market Garden ; The Warsaw Rising ; The Battle of the Bulge ; Allied gains in Burma and the Far-East
1945 : Iwo-Jima ; Okinawa ; Battle of Berlin ; Germany surrenders ; Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; surrender of Japan.
