Phoney War
1939–1940 · Event
Eight-month lull in Western Front fighting between the Anglo-French declarations of war and Norway/France.
On these timelines: Master, World War II, 1940: Britain's Darkest Hour, France
Around 1939
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)