Dunkirk evacuation
1940 · Event
British and French troops are evacuated from Dunkirk beaches; survival rather than defeat.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), 1940: Britain's Darkest Hour, England, World War II
Around 1940
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)