| Event | Year |
| Air raid on Dresden | |
| Germany invades Norway and Denmark | |
| Italy invades Greece | |
| Pearl Harbor | |
| Operation MARKET GARDEN launched | |
| US Third Army crosses Rhine | |
| German forces capitulate at Stalingrad | |
| Seige of Leningrad ends | |
| Yalta conference between Big 3 starts | |
| German airborne forces land at Crete | |
| Red Army takes Warsaw | |
| USSR declares war on Japan | |
| Battle of Britain begins | |
| D-Day (Operation OVERLORD) | |
| Tehran conference of Big 3 starts | |
| US troops land on Guadacanal | |
| US forces land on Okinawa | |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf | |
| Hiroshima | |
| US forces land on Iwo Jima | |
| Casablanca Conference | |
| Tripartite pact between Germany, Italy, and Japan | |
| Dumbarton Oaks conference starts | |
| France signs armistice with Germany | |
| Germany launches Fall Gelb | |
| Bretton Woods conference starts | |
| Germans launch offensive (BLUE) into Soviet Caucasus | |
| Strategic air offensive against Japan begins | |