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World War II

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34 events · 1933 – 1945 · Generated 2026-09-22 · Prepared by teach.erapin.com
1933
Nazi Rise to Power (Hitler Appointed Chancellor)
BERLIN · GERMANY
A government seizes power in a landlocked capital city sitting on the North European Plain, with the Rhine far to the west and the Oder River just to the east.
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1938
Munich Agreement
MUNICH · GERMANY
Leaders gather in a southern city of Europe's most populous nation, just north of the Alps forming its border with a smaller neighbour.
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1933
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1938
German Annexation of Austria (Anschluss)
VIENNA · AUSTRIA
Troops march into a landlocked alpine nation tucked between the Alps and the Danube basin, at the heart of central Europe, east of the Rhine and north of the Adriatic.
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1938
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
BERLIN · GERMANY
Shattered storefronts and burning buildings spread across a densely populated country in the heart of northern Europe, bordered by the Rhine delta to the west and the Baltic Sea…
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1938
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1939
German Invasion of Poland
WARSAW · POLAND
Armored columns cross flat lowland plains between the Baltic Sea and the Carpathian Mountains, advancing toward a river city at the heart of Central Europe's northern plain.
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1940
Battle of Britain
LONDON · UNITED KINGDOM
Aerial attackers cross a narrow channel from the European continent to strike a large island nation sitting off the northwest coast of Europe, between the Atlantic and the North…
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1939
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1940
Blitzkrieg and Fall of France
PARIS · FRANCE
Armored columns race across flat lowlands between the Rhine delta and the English Channel coast, at the western edge of continental Europe.
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1940
Dunkirk Evacuation (Operation Dynamo)
DUNKIRK · FRANCE
Soldiers crowd a flat, sandy shoreline on the European coast facing England across a narrow channel, between the Rhine delta and the Strait of Dover.
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1940
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1941
Attack on Pearl Harbor
PEARL HARBOR · UNITED STATES
Carrier warplanes strike a naval anchorage on a Pacific island chain, mid-ocean roughly halfway between North America and East Asia.
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1941
The Holocaust
AUSCHWITZ · POLAND
A vast network of camps spreads across flat, forested land between the Baltic Sea and the Carpathian Mountains, deep in central Europe's great northern plain.
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1941
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1941
Atlantic Charter
PLACENTIA BAY, NEWFOUNDLAND · CANADA
Two leaders met aboard a ship anchored in a sheltered bay on the island that forms the northeastern corner of North America, where the Atlantic narrows toward Europe.
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1942
Battle of Stalingrad
STALINGRAD · SOVIET UNION
Brutal urban combat along a great bend of the Volga River, roughly halfway between Moscow and the Caspian Sea.
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1941
1942
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1942
Second Battle of El Alamein
EL ALAMEIN · EGYPT
A desert battle unfolds on a narrow coastal strip between the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara, roughly halfway along Africa's northern edge.
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1942
Japanese American Internment (Executive Order 9066)
WASHINGTON, D.C. · UNITED STATES
A wartime government order forces people from the Pacific coast of North America inland, away from the ocean that separates the continent from Asia.
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1942
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1942
Battle of Midway
MIDWAY ATOLL · UNITED STATES (PACIFIC TERRITORY)
A naval clash erupts around a tiny coral island near the centre of the world's largest ocean, roughly halfway between North America and Asia.
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1942
Wannsee Conference
WANNSEE (BERLIN) · GERMANY
Senior officials meet at a lakeside villa near a river-straddling capital in northern-central Europe, between the Rhine and the Oder.
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1942
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1942
Bataan Death March
BATAAN · PHILIPPINES
Captured soldiers are forced on a deadly march down a finger of land reaching into a wide sheltered bay, across the water from the capital of a nation of seven thousand tropical…
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1942
Battle of Guadalcanal
HONIARA · SOLOMON ISLANDS
A jungle island in a southwestern ocean archipelago, lying northeast of a vast southern continent and east of a large equatorial island, contested for its airstrip
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1942
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1942
Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
TOKYO · JAPAN
Where a long volcanic island arc curves through the western Pacific, a curious non-historian seeks the great eastern-coast capital that faces the open ocean across a sheltered bay
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1942
Tuskegee Airmen — 332nd Fighter Group Activation
TUSKEGEE · UNITED STATES
Where a continent's eastern mountains fade into rolling interior lowland, north of a warm gulf and well east of a great river — a military training airfield of the deep south
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1942
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1943
Invasion of Italy (Allied Invasion of Sicily)
SICILY · ITALY
A massive seaborne assault crosses the narrow strait separating a large Mediterranean island from the toe of a boot-shaped peninsula, where Europe reaches toward North Africa.
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1943
Tehran Conference
TEHRAN · IRAN
Three Allied leaders confer in a grand hall on the high plateau south of the Caucasus, between the Caspian Sea and the Zagros mountains.
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1943
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1944
Battle of the Bulge
ARDENNES · BELGIUM
A winter offensive tears through a dense forested plateau in the heart of Western Europe, between the Rhine to the east and the English Channel coast to the northwest.
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1944
Invasion of Normandy (Operation Overlord)
NORMANDY · FRANCE
A vast armada crosses a narrow channel from the British Isles, landing on a broad Atlantic-facing coast of northwestern continental Europe.
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1944
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1944
D-Day — Allied Landings at Normandy
NORMANDY · FRANCE
Where a broad bay notches the northwestern coast of a continent, its long open beaches facing the cold grey sea that separates the mainland from a large island nation to the north
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1945
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
HIROSHIMA · JAPAN
Two cities on a curved archipelago in the western Pacific, facing the Asian mainland across a narrow sea, were struck from the air in the final days of a global war.
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1944
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1945
Battle of Iwo Jima
IWO JIMA · JAPAN
Weeks of brutal combat on a tiny volcanic island in the western Pacific, midway between the Mariana Islands and the main East Asian archipelago to the north.
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1945
Nuremberg Trials
NUREMBERG · GERMANY
A grand courthouse in a medieval city on the Pegnitz River, between the Rhine to the west and the Danube to the south.
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1945
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1945
Yalta Conference
YALTA · SOVIET UNION
Three wartime leaders gather in a grand seaside palace on a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea, on the southern coast of a vast Eurasian country.
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1945
Formation of the United Nations
SAN FRANCISCO · UNITED STATES
Delegates gather in a major port city on the Pacific coast of North America, where California's bay opens to the ocean just south of where the continent's western edge curves…
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1945
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1945
Liberation of Auschwitz
OŚWIĘCIM (AUSCHWITZ) · POLAND
Soldiers enter a vast prison compound on the flat plains of central Europe, between the Vistula River and the Carpathian Mountains, near the upper Vistula's bend.
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1945
V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day)
BERLIN · GERMANY
Crowds flood the streets of a capital city on the flat North European Plain, where the Spree River winds between the Baltic and the Elbe.
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1945
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1945
V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day)
TOKYO · JAPAN
A formal ceremony aboard a warship anchored in a bay on the Pacific coast of a large island arc stretching along Asia's eastern edge, facing the open ocean.
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1945
German Surrender — VE Day
REIMS · FRANCE
On the chalk plains of north-eastern Europe, east of the Seine and inland from the English Channel, in temperate country between the great rivers
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1945
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