World War II, 1939–1945

The Second World War around the world, with the road to it from 1919 and its end in 1945–46: the war in China from 1937, the war in Europe from 1939, the Eastern Front, North Africa, the Pacific, the Holocaust, the conferences and the surrenders. A sample built from the sources cited on each moment: Wikipedia, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem for the Holocaust. **How to read it.** Chapter headings mark the stages of the war. Wars, theatres, campaigns, battles and sieges are durations (navy for the wars, brick for theatres, ochre for battles, dark violet for the Holocaust and the Nanjing Massacre); everything else is a moment, linked to what it led to. Tags pull out a thread: `europe`, `eastern front`, `africa`, `asia`, `pacific`, `holocaust`, `diplomacy`, `home front`. **Time.** The line is in UTC. A moment known to its day sits at the start of that day, the date as historians give it. The few moments with a known local time (Poland, Kota Bharu, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Trinity, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Berlin surrender, the Emperor's broadcast and the signing in Tokyo Bay) sit at their exact instant in UTC, with the local time in Date precision: so Hiroshima, 08:15 on 6 August in Japan, falls on 5 August on this line. Two moments on the same day are set a few hours apart, and say so. **Numbers.** Death tolls are estimates, and labelled so; sources differ with what they count.

113 moments · 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z CE – 1946-10-01T00:00:00Z CE · by @athan · @athan

Moments

1. The road to war 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z CE
2. Treaty of Versailles 1919-06-28T00:00:00Z CE
3. Mukden Incident 1931-09-18T00:00:00Z CE
4. Manchukuo proclaimed 1932-03-01T00:00:00Z CE
5. Hitler appointed chancellor 1933-01-30T00:00:00Z CE
6. Reichstag fire 1933-02-27T00:00:00Z CE
7. Dachau opens 1933-03-22T00:00:00Z CE
8. Enabling Act 1933-03-23T00:00:00Z CE
9. Japan leaves the League of Nations 1933-03-27T00:00:00Z CE
10. Nuremberg Laws 1935-09-15T00:00:00Z CE
11. Italy invades Ethiopia 1935-10-03T00:00:00Z CE
12. Rhineland remilitarized 1936-03-07T00:00:00Z CE
13. Anti-Comintern Pact 1936-11-25T00:00:00Z CE
14. War in China, crisis in Europe 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z CE
15. Bombing of Guernica 1937-04-26T00:00:00Z CE
16. Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07T00:00:00Z CE
17. Nanjing falls 1937-12-13T00:00:00Z CE
18. Anschluss 1938-03-12T00:00:00Z CE
19. Munich Agreement 1938-09-30T00:00:00Z CE
20. Kristallnacht 1938-11-09T00:00:00Z CE
21. Germany occupies Prague 1939-03-15T00:00:00Z CE
22. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 1939-08-23T00:00:00Z CE
23. War in Europe 1939-08-26T00:00:00Z CE
24. Germany invades Poland 1939-09-01T03:45:00Z CE
25. Britain and France declare war 1939-09-03T00:00:00Z CE
26. The Soviet Union invades Poland 1939-09-17T00:00:00Z CE
27. Katyn massacre 1940-04-03T00:00:00Z CE
28. Denmark and Norway invaded 1940-04-09T00:00:00Z CE
29. Germany attacks in the West 1940-05-10T00:00:00Z CE
30. Churchill becomes prime minister 1940-05-10T18:00:00Z CE
31. Italy enters the war 1940-06-10T00:00:00Z CE
32. Germans enter Paris 1940-06-14T00:00:00Z CE
33. De Gaulle's appeal 1940-06-18T00:00:00Z CE
34. France signs an armistice 1940-06-22T00:00:00Z CE
35. Tripartite Pact 1940-09-27T00:00:00Z CE
36. Warsaw ghetto sealed 1940-11-16T00:00:00Z CE
37. Lend-Lease 1941-03-11T00:00:00Z CE
38. Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece 1941-04-06T00:00:00Z CE
39. A world war 1941-06-01T00:00:00Z CE
40. Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22T00:00:00Z CE
41. Atlantic Charter 1941-08-14T00:00:00Z CE
42. Babi Yar 1941-09-29T00:00:00Z CE
43. Soviet counteroffensive at Moscow 1941-12-05T00:00:00Z CE
44. Japan lands at Kota Bharu 1941-12-07T17:00:00Z CE
45. Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07T18:18:00Z CE
46. The United States declares war on Japan 1941-12-08T00:00:00Z CE
47. Killing begins at Chełmno 1941-12-08T12:00:00Z CE
48. Germany declares war on the United States 1941-12-11T00:00:00Z CE
49. Hong Kong surrenders 1941-12-25T00:00:00Z CE
50. Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20T00:00:00Z CE