World War II Chronology 1939 1945
A compact timeline of major WWII events from 1939 to 1945. It lists Germany’s invasions and Allied responses, key battles, invasions, conferences, and turning points including Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor, El Alamein, Stalingrad, D Day, and the push into Germany. Notable figures and nations are named as events unfold.
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George Catlett Marshall
General Pershing
Dwight David Eisenhower
Eke
Tank Corps
Omar N. Bradley
Eisenhower
Japan
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force Command
Great Britain
George 8. Patton Jr
U. S
Third Army
France
Ernest Joseph King
Atlantic
Douglas MacArthur
Philippine Islands
Pacific
Henry H. Artakowing
Mark Clark
Africa
Fitz
Italy
Carl Spaatz
Germany
Poland
Britain
Norway
Denmark
Low Countries
Churchill
Dunkirk
Paris
Yugoslavia
Greece
Rudolph Hess
Crete
Russia
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Hong Kong
Doolittle
Tokyo
Corregidor
Coral Sea
Eighth Army
Rommel
el Alamein
Dieppe
Solomons
U. S S
North Africa
Stalingrad
Tunis
Bizerte
Sicily
Mussolini
Badoglio
Gilberts
Makin
Tarawa
Roosevelt
Chiang Kai-shek
Cairo
Stalin
Teheran
Fifth Army
Anzio
Marshall Islands
Pacific Fleet
Truk
Admiralty Islands
Los Negros
Berlin
Cassino
Romania
Odessa
Dutch New Guinea
Sevastopol
Crimea
Rome
Marianas
England
Elba
Cherbourg
Vitebsk
Bucharest
Minsk
Caen
Leghorn
Ancona
Guam
East Prussian
Rennes
Brest
Polish Galicia
Florence
Bulgaria
Calais
Aachen
General MacArthur
Rhine River
Belfort Gap
von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Belgium
Warsaw
Yalta
Siegfried Line
Cologne
Scott
New Madrid
Mississippi
Cooperative Association
Sikeston
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