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World War II Chart of Battles and Military Action

 

Name

Date

Information

Invasion of Poland

 

Sept. 1, 1939

 

Invasion of Norway and Denmark

April, 1940

 

Invasion of Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France

May, 1940 - June, 1940

 

Evacuation at Dunkirk

 

June, 1940

 

Battle of the Atlantic

1940 – May, 1943

 

Battle of Britain

July - Fall, 1940

 

Invasion of the Soviet Union

June, 1941

 

Siege of Leningrad

 

Sept., 1941 to Jan., 1944

 

Pearl Harbor

 

Dec. 7, 1941

 

Invasion of Singapore, Hong Kong, Guam Philippines, Thailand

Dec., 1941

 

Coral Sea

May, 1942

 

Midway

 

June 4, 1942

 

Guadalcanal

Aug., 1942 - Feb., 1943

 

Island Hopping Campaign

Aug., 1942 - 1945

 

Battle of Stalingrad

Aug., 1942 – Jan., 1943

 

El Alamein

Oct. - Nov., 1942

 

Invasion of Sicily and Italian Campaign

 

July, 1943 – June, 1944

 

Landing at Normandy and Breakout from Normandy

June 6, 1944 – end of July, 1944

 

US returns to Philippines

Oct., 1944 - July, 1945

 

Battle of the Bulge

 

Dec., 1944

 

Iwo Jima

Feb. - Mar, 1945

 

Okinawa

Apr. - June, 1945

 

Surrender of Germany

 

May 8, 1945

 

Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug. 6 & 9, 1945