A Basic
WWII Timeline
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Mediterranean
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Europe
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| December 7, 1941 |
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor |
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| December 8, 1941 |
US and Britian declare war on Japan |
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| December 11, 1941 |
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Germany declares war on the US |
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| January 26, 1942 |
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1st US forces arrive in Britain |
| April 10, 1942 |
Bataan Death March begins as 76,000 Allied POWs including
12,000 Americans are forced to walk 60 miles under a blazing sun without
food or water toward a new POW camp, resulting in over 5,000 American deaths. |
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| June 4-7, 1942 |
Battle of Midway |
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| June 7, 1942 |
Japanese invade the Aleutian Islands |
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| September 13, 1942 |
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| October 13, 1942 |
The first U.S. Army troops, the 164th Infantry Regiment,
land on Guadalcanal. |
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| November 8, 1942 |
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Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa) |
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| 1943 |
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| Jan 23, 1943 |
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Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli |
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| Jan 27, 1943 |
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First bombing raid by Americans on Germany at Wilhelmshaven |
| Feb 2, 1943 |
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| Feb 9, 1943 |
Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends |
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| Feb 14-25 |
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Battle of Kasserine Pass between the U.S. 1st Armored
Division and German Panzers in North Africa |
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| May 7, 1943 |
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Allies take Tunisia. |
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| May 13, 1943 |
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German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa |
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| June 9, 1943 |
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Allies land in Sicily |
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| August 12, 1943 |
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Germans evacuate Sicily |
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| September 8, 1943 |
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Italian surrender is announced |
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| Oct 1, 1943 |
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Allies enter Naples, Italy |
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| October 13, 1943 |
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Italy declares war on Germany |
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| November 1, 1943 |
U.S. Marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands |
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| November 20, 1943 |
U.S. Troops invade Makin and Tarawa in the Gilbert
Islands |
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| 1944 |
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| January 6, 1944 |
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| January 17, 1944 |
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First attack toward Cassino |
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| January 22, 1944 |
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Allies land at Anzio |
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| January 27, 1944 |
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| February 15, 1944 |
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Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino |
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| March 15, 1944 |
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Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins |
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| May 11, 1944 |
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Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome |
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| May 25, 1944 |
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Germans retreat from Anzio |
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| June 5, 1944 |
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Allies enter Rome |
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| June 6, 1944 |
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D-Day |
| June 15, 1944 |
U.S. Marines invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands |
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D-Day |
| July 19, 1944 |
U.S. Marines invade Guam in the Marianas. |
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D-Day |
| Sept 17, 1944 |
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Operation Market Garden begins in Holland |
| October 20, 1944 |
U.S. Sixth Army invades Leyte in the Philippines |
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D-Day |
| December 16-27 |
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Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes |
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| January 17, 1945 |
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| February 16, 1945 |
U.S. Troops recapture Bataan in the Philippines |
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| March 7, 1945 |
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Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the
Rhine at Remagen |
| April 16, 1945 |
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| April 21, 1945 |
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| April 30, 1945 |
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide |
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| May 2, 1945 |
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German troops in Italy surrender |
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| May 7, 1945 |
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Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies |
| May 8, 1945 |
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V-E (Victory in Europe) Day |
| August 6, 1945 |
First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan |
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| August 8, 1945 |
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| August 9, 1945 |
Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan |
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| August 14, 1945 |
Japanese agree to unconditional surrender |
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| September 2, 1945 |
V-J (Victory over Japan) Day |
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