WWII Timeline with links to BBC articles. Compiled by Bravo Technology Center.

1939

• 'Admiral Graf Spee' Sunk
• Battle of the Atlantic
• Conscription Introduced
• Declaration of War on Germany
• Evacuation
• HMS 'Royal Oak' Torpedoed
• The Holocaust

1940

• Battle for Calais and Boulogne
• Battle for St Valery-en-Caux
• Battle of Arras
• Battle of Britain
• Battle of Sidi Barrani
• The Blitz
• Britain Garrisons Iceland
• Channel Islands Invaded
• Churchill Becomes Prime Minister
• Destroyers-for-bases Agreement
• Dunkirk
• The Fall of France
• Formation of the Home Guard
• Italy Invades British Somaliland
• Italy Invades Egypt
• Mers-el-Kébir
• Narvik Naval Battle
• Norway Campaign
• Ration Books Introduced
• Siege of Malta
• Taranto Raid

1941

• 'Bismarck' Sunk
• Battle for Crete
• Battle of Cape Matapan
• Burma Campaign
• Declaration of War on Finland, Hungary and Romania
• Declaration of War on Japan
• East African Campaign
• Fall of Hong Kong
• Fall of Singapore and Malaya
• Greece Campaign
• HMS 'Hood' Sunk by 'Bismarck'
• HMS 'Prince of Wales' and HMS 'Repulse' Sunk
• Invasion of British Borneo
• Iraq and Habbaniya
• Operation Battleaxe
• Operation Brevity
• Operation Crusader
• Persia Invaded
• Placentia Bay Conference
• Siege of Tobruk
• Syrian Campaign
• Washington Conference

1942

• Allied Landings in French North Africa
• Anglo-Soviet Treaty
• Arakan Offensive
• Baedeker Raids
• Battle of Alam Halfa
• Battle of Gazala
• Battle of Java Sea
• Beveridge Report
• Bruneval Raid
• Burma-Thailand Railway
• Burma-Thailand Railway
• Channel Dash
• Cripps' Mission to India
• Dieppe Raid
• First Battle of El Alamein
• Formation of the Pacific War Council
• Indian Ocean Raid
• Madagascar Captured
• PQ17
• Second Battle of El Alamein
• St Nazaire Raid

1943

• 'Scharnhorst' Sunk
• Allied Landings in Italy
• Allied Landings in Sicily
• Battle of Mareth Line
• Battle of Medenine
• Berlin Air Offensive
• Bermuda Conference
• Cairo Conference
• Casablanca Conference
• Chindit Operations
• Dambusters Raid
• Dodecanese Islands Campaign
• First Moscow Conference
• First Quebec Conference
• Hamburg Air Offensive
• Peenemünde Raid
• Ruhr Air Offensive
• Second Washington Conference
• Teheran Conference
• Thousand-bomber Raids
• Washington Convoy Conference

1944

• 'Tirpitz' Sunk
• Amiens Prison Raid
• Antwerp Captured
• Anzio Landings
• Balkan Air Force Formed
• Battle for Scheldt Estuary
• Battle for the Gothic Line
• Battle of Monte Cassino
• Battle of the Bulge
• Big Week
• British Expedition to Greece
• Caen Captured
• Caen Offensive
• Closing the Falaise Gap
• D-Day, Normandy Landings
• Defence of Imphal and Kohima
• French Riviera Landings
• Gold Beach
• Juno Beach
• Market-Garden
• Operation Bluecoat
• Operation Overlord
• Pegasus Bridge
• Second Moscow Conference
• Second Quebec Conference
• Sword Beach
• V-weapons Attack Britain

1945

• Battles of Mandalay and Meiktila
• British Enter Rangoon
• Churchill Loses General Election
• Dresden Raid
• Potsdam Conference
• Rhine Crossings
• Spring Offensive in Italy
• VE Day
• VJ Day
• Yalta Conference