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American Studies II
College Prep
Mr. Buggé
World War II Timeline Project
Major Battles and Events 1939 – 1945
25 Points
Using your textbook, as well as resources on the Internet and in the Media Center,
determine the exact dates of the events below.
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Create a timeline placing the events in chronological order labeled with the date
and one or two sentences that summarize the event.
Present your timeline project on a standard poster board. Be sure you space the
events appropriately and clearly on your timeline.
Feel free to be creative with your timeline and use words and pictures to record
the events.
Your name and class period must be in the lower right hand corner of the timeline
poster.
You will loose the equivalent of one letter grade for each day it is late
1. Pearl Harbor
2. US Evacuation of Japanese
Americans
3. Surrender of Corregidor and the
Philippines
4. The Casablanca Conference
5. Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
6. Battle of the Coral Sea
7. Fall of France
8. Battle of Midway
9. Air War Over Japan
10. Surrender of Japan
11. Battle of Okinawa
12. Yalta Conference
13. Battle of the Atlantic
14. Battle for Attu and Kiska
15. Battle of Normandy
16. Battle of Guadalcanal
17. Invasion of Sicily and Italy
18. Surrender of Germany
19. Air War over Germany – the
Bombing of Cologne
20. Marshall Island Campaign
21. Battle of Iwo Jima
22. Battle of the Bulge
23. Battle of Britain
24. Potsdam Conference
25. German Invasion of Poland
26. Fall of France
27. Escape from Dunkirk
28. Operation Torch
29. Battle of El Alamein
30. Doolittle’s Raid on Japan
31. Battle of the Philippines
32. Attack on the Soviet Union