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World War II is fought at Kursk,
September 1939 May–June 1940 September 1940 December 1941 February 1943 July–August 1943 June 1944 April–May 1945
The German army defeats
The largest tank battle of
German V-1 flying bombs
on the Eastern Front, between
German aircraft bomb
London, opening the Blitz,
which went on until May 1941
naval aircraft devastates
A strike by Japanese
World War II begins
Soviet troops occupy
After months, Soviet
the Soviet Union and Germany
the British and French
troops win a decisive
strike London, England
the German capital,
using “Blitzkrieg” tactics
the US fleet at Pearl
Berlin, ending World
victory at Stalingrad
Harbor, in the Pacific
War II in Europe
in Europe
June 1940
April 1940 fought exclusively in the air invade the Soviet Union, in The Battle of Midway is fought Allied bombers destroy the Normandy are the world’s September 1944 The United States drops atom 1945
June 1944
July 1943
June 1942
June 1941
August 1945
Germany and its allies
The Battle of Britain
The Germans drop
Germany attacks

The D-day landings in
parachute troops during
between American and Japanese
bombs on the Japanese cities of
German city of Hamburg,
begins—the first battle
Allied cities with V-2
ballistic missiles
killing 40,000 people
aircraft carriers in the Pacific
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Operation Barbarossa
their invasion of Norway
largest amphibious operation
THE BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF—1944 THE BOMBING OF DRESDEN—1945 DIVE-BOMBER—C.1945