1939-1945 Time line of World Events
(ACOS 14C)
Name __________________________________
Teacher_________________________________
Date_____________
Please refer to the World Events of 1939-1945 map located on page 2 to fill in the missing information. Email completed assignment to your teacher.
A) March 14, 1939 – After annexing the Sudetenland, ______________ invades the rest of _________________.
B) September 1, 1939 – German troops and aircraft attack _______________. ______________ surrenders to the Germans on September 27.
C) March 18, 1940 – Mussolini and Hitler announce ______________’s formal alliance with Germany against England and France.
D) July 9, 1940 – German air attacks over _________________ intensify.
E) June 22, 1941 – German troops invade _________________, breaking the “nonaggression” pact signed in 1939.
F) December 7, 1941 – 360 Japanese planes attack ________________ _____________, the U.S. military base on the Hawaiian island of ___________.
G) February 19, 1942 – President Roosevelt signs Executive Order _________, authorizing the plan of moving Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
H) August 22, 1942 – Battle of ________________ begins.
I) July 9, 1943 – An invasion of ____________ begins by British paratroopers and American airborne troops.
J) June 6, 1944 – “D-Day”: The Allied invasion of Europe commences just after midnight, as more than 175,000 troops land at ______________.
K) July 8, 1944 – Hundreds of Japanese civilians commit suicide rather than surrender to U.S. in _____________.
L) December 16, 1944 – Battle of the _____________ begins.
M) March 16, 1945 – A month-long struggle comes to an end as U.S. forces capture _____________ _____________.
N) April 12, 1945 – After suffering a massive cerebral hemorrhage, President Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs, _____________.
O) May 7, 1945 – Germany surrenders unconditionally to General Eisenhower at ______________, France and to the Soviets in Berlin.
P) August 6 and 9, 1945 – U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and _______________, Japan.
Q) September 2, 1945 – General MacArthur accepts the formal, unconditional surrender of Japan in a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in _________ Bay.
World Events 1939-1945