Guadalcanal Campaign
1942–1943 · Event
First major US ground offensive in the Pacific; turned the tide against Japan.
On these timelines: Master, World War II, Japan, USA
Around 1942
- Apartheid (1948)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)