Chapter World War II Timeline Taylor Bruursema Haley Hop

Invasion of Poland September 1, October 6, 1939 September Campaign, or 1939 Defensive War Germany Invaded Poland The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border. Ended on October 6, with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.

Battle of Dunkirk May 26, June 4, 1940 A part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defense and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe. Allies: General Lord Gort, General Maxime Weygand: approx. 400,000 men Nazi Germany: General Gerd von Rundstedt, General Ewald von Kleist: approx. 800,000 men

Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 Hundreds of Japanese navy fighter planes attacked an American Naval base at Pearl Harbor. Destroyed 20 naval vessels, and 200 airplanes. 2,000 soldiers/sailors dead, 1,000 wounded. Roosevelt Declared war. Three days later; Japan, Germany, and Italy declared war on the U.S.

Japanese Capture Burma January - May, 1942 The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theater of World War II took place over four years from 1942 to During the first year of the campaign, the Japanese Army (with aid from Thai forces and Burmese insurgents) drove British Commonwealth and Chinese forces out of Burma, and occupied the country, forming a Burmese administration with little real authority.

Battle of the Coral Sea May 4-8, 1942 Was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War 2 between the Imperial Japanese Navy and allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first fleet action in which Aircraft Carriers engaged each other. It was also the first naval battle in history in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other.

Battle of Corregidor May 5-6, 1942 The Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines. The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U.S. Army Air Forces Far East to the invading Japanese forces on Luzon in the northern Philippines. Resulted in Japanese victory.

Battle of Attu June 7, 1942 Exactly six months after Pearl Harbor. Believed that japan seized Attu and Kiska to divert U.S. pacific fleet. Also known as Operation Land

Battle of Guadalcanal August 7, February 9, 1943 Was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater World War 2. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.

Battler of Kursk July, 1943 Hitler postponed this attack for tank reinforcements. Began the biggest battle of WWII

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 19- May 16, 1943 "Final" solution for ridding Europe of Jews. Nazi's established Ghettos in areas under German control. 500,000 Jews lived in an area of 840 acres 7,000 deaths (Treblinka) Jews 15,000 deaths (Majdanek) Jews Germans Confiscated 9 rifles, 59 pistols, several hundred grenades, explosives, and mines. 16 Nazis dead, 85 wounded.

Battle of Normandy June- August 1944 Also known as D-day Allied liberation of Western Europe 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on a 50 mile stretch of beach on Normandy, France. "Begginging of the end of the war in Europe"

Battle of Peleiu September 15, 1944 One of the islands in Palau Japanese resistant's result in large amounts of causalities.

Battle of the Bulge December 1944 December 16 three German Armies launched the most deadliest and most desperate battle of the war.

Battle of Berlin April-May, 1945 End of World War 2 in Europe.

Battle of Okinawa April 1- June 12, 1945 Last and Biggest of the pacific islands battles in WWII 287,000 U.S. troops 130,000 Japanese soldiers 7,374 died, 31,807 wounded.

VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) May 8, 1945 Nazi Germany Surrendered.

VJ Day (Victory in Japan Day) August 14, 1945 Japan surrendered Surrendered aboard U.S.S. Missouri anchored in Tokyo bay.

First Indochina War December 19, August 1, 1954 Fighting between French Forces and their Viet Minh opponents in the South. Vietnamese resistance to French rule continued on and off in the decades between the French conquest and the start of World War Two. In 1940, Japan invaded Indochina and defeated the French