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War World 2 Timeline
September 1st 1939
September 28th 1939
Winter 1939/1940
April 1940
June 22, 1940
August - October 1940
Early 1941
June 22nd, 1941
Novermber 1941
Winter 1941/1942
November 1942- February 1943 - Battle of stalingrad - Soviets start pushing germans West
May 1943 - Erwin Rommel & German
Afrika korps surenders
In north africa - allies start invading italy. Battle of el almacen - british defeat them in egypt , russians push them west.
Meanwhile in the Pacific
Japan seeks to create
“greater east-asia co-prosperity sphere”
Has captured eastern china, french indochina (vietnam)
Pacific islands.
Us establishes sanctions in 1941
December 7th 1941 - pearl harbor + philippines
Spring 1942 - Japan rapidly expanding may 7 & 8 1942 - battle of coral sea - stop from austrailia
June 4, 1942 battle of midway
Douglas macarthur & island hopping
Axis powers in retreat in italy, eastern europe & pacific before…
June 6, 1944 - d-day invasion at normandy
June 1944 - April 1945 - allied advance
April 30th - hitler commits suicide
Series of surrenders, may 4,6,8, 14