● 20th Century

Pre-WW1 (1900 to 1914)
●● WW1 (1914-1918)
●● Interbellum (1919-1939)
●● WW2 (1939-1945)
●● Post War & Cold War (1946-1989)
●● 1990s ..

● 20th century τ ..

●●τ 1900 through 1929 ..
●●τ 1930 through 1960 ..
●●τ 1961 through 1990 ..
●●τ 1991 through 2021 ..

20th Century History (1900-1909) - HiPo >> .

20th Century History (1910-1919) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1920-1929) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1930-1939) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1940-1949) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1950-1959) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1960-1969) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1970-1979) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1980-1989) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1990-1999) - HiPo >> .

Descent into WW2

How WW2 Began | B2W | 1939 3/3 > .  

History of German Flag - Hilbert > .

1930s Prelude to WW2 - BeGe >> .

1900-37+ Localized Conflicts - BePr >> .

Long Shadow & Impossible Peace → Global Conflicts - BePr >> .

Impossible Peace - Time >> .

Events that caused the world to stand on the brink of total war in just two decades after the "War to End All Wars". Events that end with three words through a phone line: "Grandmother is dead," words that launch World War II.

Sitzkreig Hesitation .. 

● '39

Descent into WW2 .. 
Sitzkreig Hesitation .. 

'39 > .

1939-9-1: Nazi Germany invades Poland ⇒ Second World War - Pod > .
1939 >> .

YEAR 1 - WW2 - 1939/40 - WW2 >> .

1939 ..

39-9-1 The Polish German War 39-10-6 ..
39-9-3 England declares war 45-5-7 ..

39-10-5 A Total and Unmitigated Defeat .. 
39-10-17 German U-47 Raid at Scapa Flow ..
39-11-30 Soviets invade Finland 40-3-13 ..

39-12-17 Admiral Graf Spee scuttled, Battle of the River Plate ..

WW2 Year 1 - September 1939/40 .. 

Sitzkreig Hesitation

Ignoring early signs of impending invasion > .
Shadows Of The Third Reich - Sitzkrieg, The Phony War > . 

The Phoney War: Actually Not Phoney > . 

WW2: The Beginning, "The Phony War" - AP > .
Phoney War, the Admiral Graf Spee and the Altmark Incident - HiGu > . 

● '40

'40 > .
1940 >> .

YEAR 1 - WW2 - 1939/1940 - WW2 >> .

YEAR 2 - WW2 - 1940/41 - WW2 >> .

● 1940 .. 
40-4-9 Invasion of Norway & Denmark 40-6-10 ..
40-5-10 Churchill's new war cabinet ..
40-5-12 Battle of Sedan 40-5-14 Bombing of Rotterdam ..

40-5 - Britain Opts to Fight On .. 
40-6-1 Dunkirk - June 1 1940 ..
40-6-2 Edward R. Murrow reports the Dunkirk evacuation ..
40-6-10 Italy enters WW2 ..
40-6-15 Operation Aerial/Ariel 40-6-25 ..
40-6-21 Lord Haw Haw threatening a Nazi invasion of the UK ..
40-6-23 Hitler in Paris .. 
'40 Eiffel Tower '44 - conquest, liberation ..
40-7-3 Battle of Mers-el-Kébir - Operation Catapult ..

40-7-10 Battle of Britain Begins ..
40-7-16 Directive 16 ..
40-8-12 Bridge Busters - Raid on Dortmund-Ems Canal ..
40-8-13 Adlertag & Unternehmen Adlerangriff ..
40-8-17 Naval Blockade of British Isles ..
40-8-18 Attack on RAF Kenley - Battle of Britain ..
40-8-18 Kenley attacked ..
40-8-24 Bombing of London described by Edward R. Murrow ..
40-9-7 Blitz begins, East London docks ..
40-9-13 Buckingham Palace Bombed ..
40-10-28 Greco-Italian War 41-4-23 ..
40-10-31 Battle of Britain ends ..
40-11-11 German Intelligence Coup ..
40-11-11 Taranto Raid - Operation Judgement ..
40-11-14 Coventry Blitz ..  

40-12-18 Directive 21 - Barbarossa ..

WW2 Year 1 - September 1939/40 ..
WW2 Year 2 - September 1940/41 ..