1940s

Major events

 * World War II continues.

Minor events

 * Bunkers are built in the London Underground, including Covent Gardens. Professor Edward Travers sells the Robot Yeti captured in Tibet to Julius Silverstein. (DW: The Web of Fear)


 * Amelia Ducat mans an "ack ack" station at Folkestone. (DW: The Seeds of Doom)


 * Albert Einstein is kidnapped by the Rani. (DW: Time and the Rani)


 * George Ratcliffe is imprisoned for sympathizing with the Nazis, arguing that Britain is fighting on the wrong side. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)


 * Freeth, a member of the Parakon Corporation begins visiting Earth, sparking the first reports of flying saucers. (BBCR: The Paradise of Death)


 * Work commences on the ULTIMA Machine. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)


 * German scientists work on the Gruber-Schneider device, hoping to perfect it by 1944. (NA: Just War)


 * Melanie Bush's grandfather is killed fighting the German army. (NA: Just War)

Years

 * 1940


 * 1941


 * 1942


 * 1943


 * 1944


 * 1945


 * 1946


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 * 1948


 * 1949

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