Download Parallel Timelines

University Academy
World History
WWII: Parallel Timelines
Mr. Havens
Directions:
- Create one time line, spaced proportionally (one year every ¾” approx.) with all events for each of
the two major “theatres” of the war labeled clearly.
- Label the events in the European Theatre above the time line and the events in the Pacific Theatre
below the time line.
- You may shorten the labels as shown below but please do so sparingly. Carefully plan your timeline
to enable you to fit as much of this as possible on your timeline.
World War II: Events in the European Theatre
1933—Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany and ends WWI reparations payments
1935—Nazi Germany begins to re-arm
—Germany and Italy form an “Axis” military alliance
1936—Nazi Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland
1938—Anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany
—(Sept.) Munich Conference “appeases” Hitler, allowing Germany to seize the
Sudetenland
—(Nov.) Kristallnacht—Nazi terrorism against the Jews
1939—(Mar.) Germany conquers all of Czechoslovakia
—(Aug.) Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
—(Sept. 1) German blitzkrieg against Poland; war returns to Europe
1940—German blitz conquers France, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
—Battle of Britain
1941—Nazi “Final Solution” begins
—(Jun.) Operation Barbarossa—Germany’s three-pronged invasion of the USSR
—(Dec.) United States enters the war
1942—Allied invasion of North Africa
1943—Allied invasion of Italy
—USSR begins to drive the German army out of the Soviet Union
1944—(Jun. 6) D-Day; major allied invasion of Normandy, France
1945—(Mar.) Allied troops cross the Rhine River as Soviets approach Berlin
—(Apr.) Hitler commits suicide
—(May 8) V-E Day: Germany surrenders
World War II: Events in the Pacific Theatre
1932—Japanese military takes control of Japan
1937—Second Japanese war of conquest in China begins
1940—U.S. places an embargo on steel, oil, and other trade with Japan
—Japan joins the “Axis” alliance of Germany and Italy
1941—(Dec. 7) Japan attacks U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; U.S. declares war
1942—Battle of Midway
1944—U.S. defeats Japan in the naval Battle of Leyte Gulf, Philippines
1945—(Aug. 6 & 9) U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
—(Aug. 14) V-J Day: Japan surrenders