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| 1943 October 1 |
| | | The Allies move north from Salerno and capture Naples | |
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| 1943 November |
| | | Mussolini becomes Hitler's puppet ruler of a new Fascist republic in north Italy | |
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| 1943 December |
| | | Carl ('Tooey') Spaatz is appointed to command the US Strategic Air Forces in Europe | |
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| 1944 |
| | | The separate poems forming T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets are brought together for the first time as a single volume, published in New York | |
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| January |
| | | US general Dwight Eisenhower is appointed to command the Allied invasion of Normandy | |
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| 1944 August |
| | | The Allied advance in Italy comes to a halt at the Gothic Line of German defences, north of Florence | |
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| 1944 September 8 |
| | | The first of many thousands of war brides arrive in Canada, mainly from Great Britain | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, premiered in New York, derives from music written for or inspired by films | |
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| 1945 May 4 |
| | | British general Bernard Montgomery receives the surrender of German forces in the north and west of Europe | |
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| 1945 August 15 |
| | | TheAllies celebrate V-J Day – victory over Japan and the end of the war | |
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