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For a more comprehensive list, see List of timelines of World War II.

1939

This section is an excerpt from Timeline of World War II (1939).[edit]

1939, clockwise from top left: Captain Juutilainen at the Winter War's Battle of Kollaa, HMS Courageous (50) (pictured) sunk by U-29, Hitler reviews a Wehrmacht victory parade following the successful invasion of Poland, Imperial Japanese Army soldiers at the Battle of Changsha

This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II.

Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days later, mark the beginning of World War II. After the declaration of war, Western Europe saw minimal land and air warfare, leading to this time period being termed the "Phoney War". At sea, this time period saw the opening stages of the Battle of the Atlantic.

In eastern Europe, however, the agreement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed on 23 August opened the way in September for the Soviet Union's invasion of eastern Poland, which was divided between the two countries before the end of the month. The Soviet Union began a new military offensive by invading Finland at the end of November.

The war in East Asia among the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan reached a stalemate, while increasing clashes between Japan and the Soviet Union ended when the two parties agreed in September on a ceasefire.

1940

This section is an excerpt from Timeline of World War II (1940).[edit]

1940, clockwise from top left: IJA troops advance to Lạng Sơn during the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, a London Tube station serves an air-raid shelter during the Battle of Britain, German paratroopers arrive for the Battle of the Hague, mass grave of Katyn Massacre victims

This is a timeline of World War II events that took place in 1940, the first full year of the second global war of the 20th century.

1941

This section is an excerpt from Timeline of World War II (1941).[edit]

1941: Soviet defenders at the Battle of Rostov, Commonwealth troops of South Asian descent operate an anti-aircraft gun during the Western Desert campaign, a British torpedo bomber returns from attacking the German battleship Bismarck, an American battleship burns after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II in 1941, marked also by the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front.

1942

This section is an excerpt from Timeline of World War II (1942).[edit]

1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea; Reinhard Heydrich's car after attack by Czech resistance; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops work on the Case Blue plan to supply the Axis Powers with needed petroleum supplies

This is a timeline of events that occurred during World War II in 1942.

1943

This section is an excerpt from Timeline of World War II (1943).[edit]

Clockwise from top left: Battle of the Bismarck Sea, graves of U.S. Marines killed in the Battle of Tarawa, burning Allied ships after the air raid on Bari in Italy, Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto

This is a timeline of events that occurred during World War II in 1943.

1944

This section is an excerpt from Timeline of World War II (1944).[edit]

Clockwise from top left: Germany's V-2 rocket, aftermath of the Wola massacre in Poland, liberation of Paris, battle of the Philippine Sea

This is a timeline of events that occurred during 1944 in World War II.

1945

This section is an excerpt from Timeline of World War II (1945–1991).[edit]

Allied leaders meet at the Yalta Conference, Soviets raise their flag over the Reichstag, Americans raise their flag over Iwo Jima, nuclear weapons first used in the bombing of Hiroshima

This is a timeline of the events that stretched over the period of late World War II, its conclusion, legal aftermath, with the inclusion of the Cold War, from January 1945 to December 1991.