✦ History

Explore January 1, 1941 – May 8, 1945

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Battle of Singapore 1942-02-08 - 1942-02-15
Bataan Death March 1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway 1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre 1942-06-10
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942-10-25 - 1942-10-27
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied invasion of Italy 1943-09-03 - 1943-09-16
Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Hailstone 1944-02-17 - 1944-02-18
Battle of Imphal 1944-03-08 - 1944-07-03
Battle of Kohima 1944-04-04 - 1944-06-22
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
Bretton Woods Conference 1944-07-01 - 1944-07-22
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive 1944-08-20 - 1944-08-29
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Peleliu 1944-09-15 - 1944-11-27
Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
Battle of Metz 1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen 1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Battle of Debrecen 1944-10-06 - 1944-10-29
Battle of Leyte 1944-10-17 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-10-23 - 1944-10-26
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Siege of Budapest 1944-12-26 - 1945-02-13
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Vistula–Oder offensive 1945-01-12 - 1945-02-02
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04
Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Vienna offensive 1945-04-02 - 1945-04-13
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy 1945-04-06 - 1945-05-02
Operation Ten-Go 1945-04-07 - 1945-04-07
Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Prague offensive 1945-05-06 - 1945-05-11

People

Adolf Hitler age 51
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 58
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 47
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 56
President - United States
Hirohito age 39
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 45
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 48
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 21
Shah - Iran
Philippe Pétain age 84
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Karl Dönitz age 49
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 62
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 58
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 71
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 20
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 17
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 43
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 57
President - Republic of China
Trường Chinh age 33
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Juan José Arévalo age 36
President - Guatemala
Jorge Ubico age 62
President - Guatemala
Zhang Wentian age 40
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 51
President - Guatemala
Bahij al-Khatib age 46
President - Syria
Francisco Javier Arana age 35
President - Guatemala
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 32
President - Guatemala
Winston Churchill age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle age 50
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Benito Mussolini age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Joseph Goebbels age 43
Chancellor - Germany
Chiang Kai-shek age 53
Premier - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 48
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Vyacheslav Molotov age 50
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Hideki Tojo age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Éamon de Valera age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pietro Badoglio age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Laval age 57
Head of Government - Vichy France
Władysław Sikorski age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 53
Leading Minister - Germany
Fumimaro Konoe age 49
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 70
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ivanoe Bonomi age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Kuniaki Koiso age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
François Darlan age 59
Vice-President of the Council - Vichy France
Kantarō Suzuki age 73
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 70
President - International Olympic Committee
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Dušan Simović age 58
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Dragiša Cvetković age 47
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Slobodan Jovanović age 71
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 39
Prime Minister - Poland
Ivan Šubašić age 48
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Seán Lester age 52
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Khalid al-Azm age 46
Prime Minister - Syria
Faris al-Khoury age 63
Prime Minister - Syria
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Jamil al-Elshi age 57
Prime Minister - Syria
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Božidar Purić age 49
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ramón Zaydín age 46
Prime Minister - Cuba
Husni al-Barazi age 46
Prime Minister - Syria
Hassan al-Hakim age 55
Prime Minister - Syria
Miloš Trifunović age 69
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Charles Evans Hughes age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 52
Vice President - United States
John Nance Garner age 72
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 36
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 54
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 39
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 65
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 41
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Heinrich Himmler age 40
Reichsminister - Germany
Hermann Göring age 48
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rudolf Hess age 46
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 63
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 73
Secretary of War - United States
Robert H. Jackson age 48
Attorney General - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 40
Secretary of State - United States
Francis Biddle age 54
Attorney General - United States
Wilhelm Stuckart age 38
Reichsminister - Germany
Herbert Morrison age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 50
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd age 61
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Oliver Stanley age 44
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury age 47
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne age 60
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 46
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 58
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
James F. Byrnes age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Duff Cooper age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hugh Dalton age 53
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 63
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Clark McReynolds age 78
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 47
President - African National Congress
Ernest Brown age 59
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hastings Lees-Smith age 62
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Margaret Buckley age 61
President - Sinn Féin
J. Howard McGrath age 37
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Alben W. Barkley age 63
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 83
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 32
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 45
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 49
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 38
Governor of New York - United States
Herbert H. Lehman age 62
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
Charles Edison age 50
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Charles Poletti age 37
Governor of New York - United States
W. Lee O'Daniel age 50
Governor of Texas - United States
Culbert Olson age 64
Governor of California - United States
Frank Lausche age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Walter E. Edge age 67
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 52
Governor of Texas - United States
James Hubert Price age 62
Governor of Virginia - United States
Maurice J. Tobin age 39
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
A. Harry Moore age 64
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Colgate Darden age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 50
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 57
Governor of Indiana - United States
M. Clifford Townsend age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 47
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ed Rivers age 45
Governor of Georgia - United States
Barber Conable age 18
New York State Senate - United States
Francisco Franco age 48
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 65
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 18
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 73
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 56
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 60
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 68
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 82
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 70
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 19
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 49
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 15
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 53
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 31
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 62
President - Philippines
Risto Ryti age 51
President - Finland
Bolesław Bierut age 48
President - Poland
Douglas Hyde age 81
President - Ireland
Sveinn Björnsson age 59
President - Iceland
Archibald Wavell age 57
Viceroy - British Raj
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 44
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 41
King - Eswatini
José Paciano Laurel age 49
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 62
President - Philippines
Anastasio Somoza García age 44
President - Nicaragua