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| 1938 |
| | | 23-year-old Rangoon student Aung San, later the father of Aung San Suu Kyi, becomes general secretary of a freedom party, Dobama Asiayone (Our Burma Union) | |
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| 1941 |
| | | Aung San and some revolutionary colleagues (the Thirty Comrades) receive military training in Japan, aiming to evict the British from Burma | |
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| 1941 December 28 |
| | | Burmese politician Aung San raises a Burma Independence Army in Thailand to support the imminent Japanese invasion of his country | |
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| 1942 January |
| | | Aung San's Burma Independence Army enters Burma as part of the Japanese invasion | |
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| 1942 May |
| | | Burma becomes the last in the series of important southeast Asian territories to fall into Japanese hands | |
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| 1942 May |
| | | William Slim gets the remaining British forces back to India from Burma, in a fighting withdrawal that lasts two months | |
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| 1943 October |
| | | British general William Slim is appointed to command the Fourteenth Army, formed specifically for the campaign to recover Burma | |
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| 1944 March-June |
| | | William Slim secures the first Allied victories in the Burma campaign, at Imphal and Kohima in northeast India | |
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| 1945 March 20 |
| | | William Slim drives the Japanese from Mandalay and moves on south to take Rangoon | |
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| 1945 March 27 |
| | | Aung San's army, now named the Burma National Army, changes sides in a surprise move and attacks the Japanese | |
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