Battle of Britain
1940 · Event
RAF defeats Luftwaffe air campaign; thwarts a planned German invasion of Britain.
On these timelines: 1940: Britain's Darkest Hour, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England, World War II
More from 1940: Britain's Darkest Hour
- Churchill becomes Prime Minister (1940)
- Battle of Britain Day breaks the daylight assault (1940)
- France signs the armistice at Compiègne (1940)
- 'We shall fight on the beaches' (1940)
- The panzers cross the Meuse at Sedan (1940)
- Eagle Day opens the Luftwaffe's main assault (1940)
- The Coventry Blitz (1940)
- The Norway Debate topples Chamberlain (1940)
Around 1940
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)