The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
WW2 timeline and maps
The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945 told in 15 chapters on an interactive situation map, with 22 dated maps and 67 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the index: every chapter, map and place as its own page.
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The chapters
Appeasement and the road to WW2
CHAPTER 1 · SEP 1938
Invasion of Poland
CHAPTER 2 · SEP 1939
Fall of France
CHAPTER 3 · JUN 1940
Battle of Britain
CHAPTER 4 · AUG 1940
Balkans and North African campaigns
CHAPTER 5 · MAY 1941
Operation Barbarossa
CHAPTER 6 · DEC 1941
Japanese expansion and Pearl Harbor
CHAPTER 7 · MAY 1942
Battle of Midway
CHAPTER 8 · JUN 1942
Stalingrad and El Alamein
CHAPTER 9 · NOV 1942
Kursk and the fall of Mussolini
CHAPTER 10 · JUL 1943
Pacific island-hopping campaign
CHAPTER 11 · NOV 1943
D-Day and Operation Bagration
CHAPTER 12 · JUN 1944
End of WW2 in Europe
CHAPTER 13 · FEB 1945
End of WW2 in the Pacific
CHAPTER 14 · AUG 1945
Aftermath of WW2
CHAPTER 15 · OCT 1945
WW2 maps by year
MAR 1936MAR 1938MAR 1939OCT 1939JUN 1940MAY 1941DEC 1941NOV 1942JUL 1943OCT 1943JUN 1944SEP 1944JAN 1945MAY 1945LATE 1945JUL 1937SEP 1940DEC 1941MAY 1942FEB 1943OCT 1944AUG 1945
Battles, events and sites of memory
● Anschluss● Armistice at Compiègne◆ Atomic bombing of Hiroshima◆ Atomic bombing of Nagasaki✕ Attack on Pearl Harbor◆ Auschwitz-Birkenau✕ Axis surrender in Tunisia◆ Bataan Death March✕ Battle of Anzio✕ Battle of Arnhem✕ Battle of Berlin✕ Battle of Crete✕ Battle of Eben-Emael✕ Battle of Iwo Jima✕ Battle of Khalkhin Gol✕ Battle of Kiev✕ Battle of Kursk✕ Battle of Leyte Gulf✕ Battle of Midway✕ Battle of Monte Cassino✕ Battle of Moscow✕ Battle of Narvik✕ Battle of Okinawa✕ Battle of Saipan✕ Battle of Salerno✕ Battle of Sedan✕ Battle of Stalingrad✕ Battle of Tarawa✕ Battle of Westerplatte✕ Battle of the Bulge✕ Battle of the Coral Sea✕ Battle of the Philippine Sea✕ Battles of Imphal and Kohima● Bombing of Chongqing◆ Bombing of Dresden● Chain Home radar✕ D-Day landings in Normandy● Doolittle Raid● Dunkirk evacuation✕ Fall of Singapore◆ Firebombing of Tokyo● German surrender and VE Day● German–Soviet parade at Brest-Litovsk✕ Guadalcanal campaign✕ Invasion of Sicily● Liberation of Paris● Marco Polo Bridge Incident● Meeting at the Elbe● Munich Conference◆ Nanjing Massacre● Occupation of Prague✕ Operation Torch✕ Raid on Taranto● Remilitarization of the Rhineland✕ Second Battle of El Alamein✕ Siege of Budapest◆ Siege of Leningrad✕ Siege of Sevastopol✕ Siege of Tobruk✕ Siege of Warsaw✕ Soviet invasion of Manchuria● Spanish Civil War● Surrender of Japan✕ The Blitz◆ Warsaw Uprising✕ Winter War● Yalta Conference
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