Talk:List of timelines of World War II

message: There should be more in this article on rationing in australia. 58.107.30.145 11:19, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: rationing

message: I have begun creating Timelines for the major campaigns of the war to allow entries tobe made with a level of detail that if done on this main page would create an impossibly long article.  As a matter of format, I have created an entry for the campaign with a link both to the article on the campaign as well as to its specific timeline.  For this page, I only retain the most major milestones.  For most campaigns this will be the start and possibly conclusion of the campaign, although for some very long campaigns intermediate events such as the capture of a capital or turning point in the campaign may warrant a brief entry.  Otherwise, details should be placed on the specific campaign timeline.  I have completed the Timeline of the Polish September Campaign as a start. Joshbaumgartner 07:35, 2005 Feb 2 (UTC)
:Moving  that information out of this article has not been a success, the pages Timeline_of_politics_and_diplomacy_during_World_War_II, Timeline of the Second Battle of the Atlantic have hardly been touched since the extraction of this information in February and Timeline of Allied air operations in Europe and Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II have not been touched AT ALL since February. I suggest moving this information back into this article. Jooler 12:39, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Please see Talk:Armistice with France (Second Compiègne)#Timeline. --Mathew5000 19:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discrepancy regarding date of surrender of France in June 1940 

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thread_title:  [[:Image:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg]] 

message: I'm surprised that nations such as Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvadar, etc. don't have the dates listed for their declarations of war against Germany and Japan.  Multiple South American nations, as well as some Carribean nations (ie. Cuba, Haiti) immediately declared war after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.  If nations who made minimal contributions and declared war after D-Day (ie. Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela) have dates listed, I think it's only fair that the nations who declared war earlier be listed as well.  Feedback/suggestions? Anyone agree or disagree? Ninja kid21 18:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Only those who gave noteable military support should be mentioned. This is because there are hundreds of countries and the list of just all the declarations would be pointless. Most of south america and south africa was not involved in the war, but politically they were to allow USA to use there ports etc. Others did actually have fighting units that faught over seas. I suggest only listing countries if they are mentioned else where in the timeline for being involved in battles or other significant events. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 155.144.251.120 (talk) 01:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Declarations of War 

message: The same event is repeated in two places (December 28 1941 & may 27 1942 Assassination of Heydrich), even if it isn't a mistake, it confuses the reader.
"Starts the Operation Anthropoid (the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich)"
"Operation Anthropoid - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague" 
Someone please fix it. --212.24.224.18 18:02, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistake? 

message: Someone very enthusiastically has added a paragraph for every slight event that happened in Vietnam. Can someone with more knowledge trim this down? It reads like the western front was somewhere in the middle of the country. --Travisbasevi 01:27, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vietnam 

message: 1940 December:
2: British conscription is increased to cover men from 19 to 41. 
May 1940:
9: Conscription in Britain extended to age 36. 
How can they 'extend' when before it was age 41. and then it ended up 36. that is a decrease.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.223.236.71 (talk) 23:22, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there are several instances of incorrect stuff to do with Conscription on this page It needs a check. Jooler 00:42, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Conscription in Britain?

message: Please don't  cross-reference to dates using a format like '8/9'. This is ambiguous. To a Briton this is 8th September, to an American this is August 9. Jooler 16:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: date refs

message: Hello. I notice that the article uses the names "Leningrad" and "Stalingrad" interchangeably. Thinking all the way back to high school history, I think the name Stalingrad was in use during the war, and indeed is so indicated in the Volgograd article. Can anyone please confirm whether the use of "Leningrad" should be changed to "Stalingrad", or whether it even matters? Thanks! - Teeg82 (talk) 20:12, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They are two different cities. Stalingrad on the Volga in the south and Leningrad (now renamed back to the pre-Soviet name of Saint Petersburg) on the Baltic coast. Jooler (talk) 00:33, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leningrad / Stalingrad 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:StPaulsCathedral.jpg

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message: Moving information out of this article has not been a success. Timeline is also not a real article( it is the WW2). In my opinion the problem here is not the length but the size. I suggest splitting the timeline simply by the years. So that the timeline page will be the 1939 page and at the end of the page will be links to the other war years.
Winston2 09:21, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: it´s a good idea.Petrescu3 (talk) 21:02, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Support splitting per year. Keep here the major events only. Andries (talk) 08:17, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

text: I'd agree with a split as well --Nick Dowling (talk) 10:10, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

text: I also support a split.  Personally, I think two separate splits, one by year and another by theatre (Asia-Pacific, European-Atlantic, Soviet-German) would be in order. Oberiko (talk) 15:16, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Split. Someone needs to reference all that... Renata (talk) 23:45, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Article size

message: I do not have the time to do this but while looking at this article thought that it could be drastically improved with a little work.  I am defintely in favor of splitting the article up in to individual years but I would also like to see that the timeline be seperated into two columns, one for the Pacific Theater, and one for the European theater as I believe this would lend to a better flow.  I also have noticed that in this timeline, not all of the events are linked to the appropriate wikipedia article which is very frustrating.  As I said before, I don't have the time to give the attention this deserves but would defintely thank anyone that undertook it. Seantpainter (talk) 00:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean up

message: I was under the impression while the men of the 3 Airborne Divisions took off on June 5 that the first men did not land in occupied France until after midnight ... i.e.  on June 6th.--EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 10:16, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  June 5, 1944 

message: I just put in the full blown MILHIST Template, which links this article to all the pertinent projects. That should bring more work. - SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 20:04, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full Blown MILHIST Template 

message: This article needs to be extended to include just the main events as an overview. Not everybody is an expert, or needs all the gory details.  (The detailed articles are fine, but an overview is what is required.)
I would suggest the main events are
* Invasion of Manchuria
* Invasion of Poland
* Battle of France
* Battle of Britain
* North Africa, start and end
* Barbarossa start
* Stalingrad
* Pearl Harbor
* Singapore
* Midway
* Saipan
* D-Day
* VE
* VJ
Tuntable (talk) 01:32, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I think the easiest way would be for each year to include its own summary. So I've tagged the yearly timelines with . fgnievinski (talk) 00:16, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary required 

message: I am somewhat astonished that the Battle of Britain does not have its own chronology. There are only two mentions of it in the UK home front chronology - start and end. This was the first successful resistance of the Nazi war machine. It was a turning point for the European war, which unarguably secured the staging post of the future D-Day invasion. Its success was therefore as significant as France's fall. There were key events which should surely be recorded and the battle warrants its own section, I would suggest.
Paul Wenman  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.15.58.190 (talk) 20:31, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battle of Britain