Name:
Instructions: Construct
1.
a timeline showing
important events during World War II.
on a long strip of paper, 110 cm long and 20 cm high, print the title, ,.world war II
Timeline". Use a pencil to lightly draw a line that tilthelp you keep the letters straight.
The title should be large and easy to read.
Next' draw in your line using tight pencil and a meter stick. This line should be
positioned four cm from the bottom of the strip and should be I meter long (exacgy) and
one cm wide. Do not colour the line as it will be difficutt to write on.
Use a ruler or meter stick to make small marks on the line every centimeter. Every
12 cm
make a darker line.
Label the timeline with the date, 1939 Jan., being on the far left end of the line. Continue
labelling the months Feb., Mar. and so on, until 1940 Jan. Label the rest of the line with
December 1945 being the last date. Remember that on this timeline, one month is equal
to one centimeter
Next, cut out the events and glue them (at an angle) to the timeline on the correct date.
Note that the events are not in order.
Finally, after all the events have been glued on, you are free to enhance the appearance of
your timeline by using markers to darken lines, by colouring or by adding ,m"ll picfures.
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Evenfs Of 1939
l, 1939 Geimany inyades poland in
"BliEkrieg' attack.
Sept.
Sept.4,
1939
Britain, France and Canada declare
war on Germanv.
Denmark
10,
1940
invades Norway and
Germany invades HoUand and
Belgium, driving towards France.
June 5, 1940 Germany invades France.
June
10,1940 Italy joins
Germany.
June 22,
1940
l,1942
the war on the side of
Dec.23,7942
Sept. 8, 1940 The ..Blitz,'begins. Germans try to
bomb British into surrenderiug _
lasts 8 months.
Events Of 1941
April 6, 1941 Germany
1943
Feb. 2,
April
19,
Nov.31,
1941
Dec. 7, 1941
Dec.25,
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'Warsaw
Ghetto uprising as polish
Jews rise up against Ger-man army-
May 13, 1943 German forces in Africa surrender.
1943
July 3,
Germans attack at Kursk in Russia.
This becomes the largest tank battle
in history. Russians beat back
attaclc
July 4, 1943 Canadian troops participate in
invasion of Sicily.
Sept.
Dec.
9,
1943
1943
I,
invades Greece and
Canadian troops participate in
invasion of ltaly.
Soviet winter offensive begins as
Germans begin to retreatirom
Russia.
Germany invades Russia.
Germans begin twenfy-eight month
siege of Leningrad in northern
Events of 1944
Feb.5,
1944
Russians driving toward Germany.
Russia. (lmiilion starve)
March
5,1944
American forces retake phillippines.
Germans reach to within 20 km of
Moscow before being stopped.
June 6, 1944 Normandy invasion
@-Day) begins
as Allied soldiers land in Nbrthern
France.
Japanese Iaunch surprise attack
using carrier planes at pearl
Harbour in Hawaii.
Dec.8,1941
German Sixth Army surrounded at
Stalingrad. (300,00ti ki[ed or
captured)
1943
Yugoslavia.
l94l
Sept.4, 1941
Americans attack pacific islend of
Guadalcanal.
Frauce surrenders.
JuIy 12, 1940 Battle Of Britain begins.
June 22,
Germans reach Stelingrad in
southern Russia.
Events Of 1943
Events Of 1940
April 9, 1940 Germany
May
Nov.
United States enters war.
July 2A, 1944 German generals fail in an
assassination plot against
Aug. 18,
1944
Dec. 16,
1944
Germans launch Battle Of The Butge
in a last ditch effort to win the war.-
Events Of 1942
1942 Singapore captured by Japanese.
April 9, 1942 Philippine Islands fall to Japanese.
trune 6,1942 Japanese carriers destroyed at Battle
It fails.
Feb. 15,
of
Allied forces cross Rhine River into
Germany.
Canadian troops in lfong Kong
surreuder to Japanese.
IIitler.
M'dwey. Turning point in the
pacific.
Aug.19,1942 Dieppe raid.
(906 kitted,1874
Events Of 1945
April30, 1945 Hifler commits suicide in his bunker
in Berlin
May 8, 1945 Germany surrenders. (VE Day)
Aug.6,1945
Iliroshima. 70,000 dead.
captured)
Oct.23,1942 British
win Battle Of El Alamein.
Germans in Africa begin to retreat.
Atomic Bomb dropped on
Aug.9,1945
Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
28,000 dead.
Aug. 15,
1945
Japau surrenders and war is over.