Download Assignment #4: WWII Timeline

Major Military Events of World War II
Britain and France declare war on
Germany
- Britain delivers an
ultimatum to Germany.
-Britain and France declare
war but do nothing to help
the Poles or fight Hitler.
This is called the “phony
war” where England and
France watch and wait
- Stalin invades Poland from
the east.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78COTwT7nE
Crash Course World History #38 – World War II
Assignment #3: Military Aspects of WWII
1. On the back of your slide, take notes from textbook
about your assigned battle or location of battles.
2. Be ready to discuss and plan a SHORT (two minute)
presentation with three other people about each battle
in the war for a WWII battle timeline.
3. As part of your presentation, brainstorm reasons your
battle or campaign was significant to WWII. You will
have to come up with these as a group – it may not
be spelled out in the textbook.
Assignment #4: Timeline of
WWII
- Write down basic facts about each
campaign (people, technologies, ideas)
- Explain significance to war.
#1 Rescue at Dunkirk and Fall of France - 1940 – p.492-493
#2 Battle of Britain – 1940/1941: Nazis Target Britain with Arial Attacks in
1940 in preparation for invasion. p. 493-494
#3: Operation
Barbarossa (1941) and Battle of
Stalingrad
(1942-43)
p. 495-496 and 507
In June 1941 Nazi Forces invade Soviet Union leading to USSR joining Britain against Nazi
Germany. By Winter, Germans on outskirts of Leningrad, Moscow & Stalingrad.
#4: North Africa Campaign AND the invasion of Italy
p. 494-495 and 506-507
#5: Operation Overlord aka “D- Day” on June 6th, 1944
Allied Invasion of France establishes new Western Front
p.509-511 (include Germany’s surrender)
#6: Pearl Harbor brings US into war
and “Island Hopping Strategy” US/Australians vs. Japan p. 497-500
p. 500-501 and 511-513
#7: Pacific War intensifies after German surrender in Europe, but Japan refuses
to unconditionally surrender until after use of 2 atomic bombs in August, 1945
Ex: Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Hiroshima/Nagasaki