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Unit XVII: The Second World War

Timeline of World War II

Directions: Use the timelines on pages 806-807, 809, 814, 818, 824, and 830 of
your textbook to complete the missing information.

Europe Pacific

Fall 1942 United United States invade North

1935 Fall 1942 States Africa
1936 1943 enters Germans attack Stalingrad
war Stalin, Roosevelt, and
1936 Feb. 1943 after Churchill meet in Tehran to
July 1943 Japan determine future course of
1938 June 1943 attacks war
Sept. Pearl Germans defeated at
1939 Harbor Stalingrad
Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles Nazi Soviets defeat Germans at
Apr. Germany signs separate pacts death Battle of Kursk
1940 with Italy and Japan camps Rome falls to Allies
May Hitler and Mussolini create Rome- in full
1940 Berlin Axis operatio 1931
June n
1940 Hitler annexes Austria Two 1936
Aug. France and Britain declare war million
1940 when Germany invades Poland; ethnic
. 1940 World War II begins German 1937
June Blitzkrieg against Denmark and s
1941 Norway resettled
Dec. Attacks against Netherlands, in
1941 Belgium, France Poland
France falls to Germany Britain
1942 Air attack against Britain and
1942 Einsatzgruppen active in Poland
Hitler invades Soviet Union
 Japanese seize Chinese capital
Dec.
1941

Spring
1942

1943 United States enters war after

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Japan controls most of Southeast
Asia;
United States wins battles of
Japanes Coral Sea and Midway Island
e forces
invade
Manchu Japan uses forced labor to build
ria Burma-Thailand railroad

Germa
ny
signs
separat
e pacts
with
Italy
and
Japan
 Europe Pacific

June6,
1944
1944 Allied forces invade France on D- Aug.
Day 1945
1945 Nazis continue Final Solution
March even as they start losing the war
1945 Allies bomb Dresden
April Germany is invaded
1945 Hitler and Mussolini die
April Soviets enter Berlin
1945 Germany surrenders
May Churchill proclaims existence of Aug.
1945 “iron curtain” in Europe 1945
1946 United States drops atomic
bombs on Japan; Japanese
surrender