Download Chapter 10-11 World War II Timeline

Chapter 10-11
World War II Timeline
Taylor Bruursema
Haley Hop
•
•
•
•
•
Invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939 - October 6, 1939
September Campaign, or 1939
Defensive War
Germany Invaded Poland
The Soviet Union invaded eastern
Poland on September 17, 1939.
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, 1939- with
Germany and the Soviet Union dividing
and annexing the whole of Poland.
Battle of Dunkirk
•
•
•
May 26, 1940 - 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 1945.
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, 1942 - 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, 1946 - 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