Download World War II Timeline Activity Directions: You are going to take the

World War II Timeline Activity
Directions: You are going to take the events, dates, and pictures that are provided for you and
place them onto a World War II timeline. There are 15 Events, 15 Dates, and 15 Pictures to be
place in chronological order for World War II to complete your timeline. Make sure your
timeline has a title, is neatly done, and is historically accurate.
Japan invades China
to start their plan to
take over the Pacific.
The U.S. bombed Tokyo as
a counter to Pearl Harbor
known as Doolittle’s Raid.
Germany invades
Poland to begin World
War II in Europe.
The Battle of Britain
begins.
Italy invades Greece to try
to control more territory in
N. Africa and the
Mediterranean.
The Battle of Coral
Sea begins in the
Pacific.
Britain & France at the
Munich Conference appease
Hitler by giving into his
demands for the
Sudetenland and parts of
Czechoslovakia.
June 10, 1940
July 7, 1937
April 18, 1942
October 28, 1940
September 1, 1939
May 4, 1942
September 29, 1938
The Battle of Midway
begins & is a turning
point in the war in the
Pacific.
June 22, 1941
June 7, 1942
Germany invades the
Soviet Union to carry out
Operation Barbarossa.
The Japanese attack
the U.S. at Pearl
Harbor.
The allied forces invaded
the beaches of Normandy,
France that becomes
known as D-Day.
Axis Forces surrender in
Tunisia ending the North
African campaign.
June 22, 1940
July 25, 1943
June 6, 1944
Italy declares war on
Britain and France.
France falls to Nazi
Germany as Hitler
accepts the surrender in a
train car.
Benito Mussolini was
overthrown as the Italy
dictator.
May 13, 1943
July 10, 1940
December 7, 1941