D-Day (Operation Overlord)
1944 · Event
Allied amphibious invasion of Normandy with major British and Canadian assault sectors on the British-led 2nd Army front.
On these timelines: Master, D-Day & the Liberation of Europe, United Kingdom (combined), World War II, Germany
Around 1944
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)