D-Day (Operation Overlord)
1944 · Event
Allied amphibious invasion of Normandy: American, British and Canadian forces land on five beaches with airborne and naval support from many Allied nations, opening the Normandy campaign.
On these timelines: Master, D-Day & the Liberation of Europe, United Kingdom (combined), World War II, Germany
Around 1944
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)