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
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)