가장 많이 어려운 과목 중에 하나가 바로 Social Studies입니다.



그리고 이 사회 과목 중에서 상당히 많은 비중을 차지하는 것이 바로 세계 대전입니다.



1차세계대전 및 2차 세계대전은 세계 역사상 상당히 많은 변화를 가져온 중요한 전쟁들 중의 하나 입니다. 일단 가장 중요하고 기본적인 2차 대전의 timeline에 관한 것입니다.



2차 세계 대전은 유럽과 아시아 의 주 곳에서 동시 다발적으로 일어났기 때문에 상당히 복잡하지만 그 중에서도 중요하고 꼭 공부를 해야 되는 것들로 골랐습니다.



타임라인을 보면서 각 이벤트에 관한 리서치 (just google it!)를 조금만 해 본다면 상당히 많은 도움이 될 것 입니다.



World War 2 Time Line



1939

**Sept 1-Germany invaded Poland - Blitzkrieg- starting the World War 2

**Sept 3-The UK and France declared war on Germany

**Sept 10-Canada entered the war.

Sept 17-The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east



1940

**Apr 9-German forces invaded Norway and Denmark

May 10-Winston Churchill became the prime minister of the UK; Germany launched a blitzkreig against Belgium and Netherland

May 28-King Leopold III of Belgium surrendered to Germany

**June 5-Germany launched a major assault against France

**June 10-Italy declared war on France and the UK

June 14-German troops entered Paris

**June 22-French government agreed to an armistice with Germany

July 10-Battle of Britain began



1941

**Apr 6-Germany invaded Greece and Yugoslavia

**June 22-Germany invaded the Soviet Union

Sept 8-German troops began to blockade Leningrad

**Dec 7-Japan bombed US military bases at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

**Dec 8-The US, the UK, and Canada declared war on Japan



1942

Feb 15-Singapore fell to the Japanese

**Feb 26-28-Japan defeated an Allied naval force in the Battle of the Java Sea

**Apr 9-US and Philippine troops on Bataan Peninsula surrendered

**Apr 18-US bombers hit Tokyo in the Doolittle raid

May 4-8-The Allies checked a Japanese assault in the Battle of the Coral Sea

**June 4-6-The Allies defeated Japan in the Battle of Midway

**Aug 7-US Marines landed on Guadalcanal

Aug 25-Hitler ordered his forces to capture Stalingrad

Oct 23-The UK Attacked the Axis at El Alamein in Egypt

**Nov 8-Allied troops landed in Algeria and Morocco



1943

**Feb 2-The last Germans surrendered at Stalingrad

**May 13-Axis forces in Northern Africa surrendered

Jul 4-Germany opened assault near the soviet city of Kursk

Jul 10-Allied forces invaded Sicily

**Sept 3-Italy secretly surrendered to the Allies

Sept 9-Allied troops landed at Salerno, Italy

Nov 20-US forces invaded Tarawa



1944

**June 6-Allied troops landed in Normandy in the D-day invasion of nothern France

**June 19-20-A US naval force defeated the Japanese in the Battle of the Philippine Sea

July 18-Japan's prime minister Tojo resigned

**July 20-A plot to assassinate Hitler failed

Oct 20-The Allies began landing in the Philippines

**Oct 23-26-The Allies defeated Japan's navy in the battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines

**Dec 16-The Germans struck back at US troops in the Battle of Bulge



1945

**Mar 16-US marines captured Iwo Jima

**Apr 30-Hitler took his life in Berlin

**May 7-Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies in Reims, France, ending WWII in Europe

June 21-Allied forces captured Okinawa

**Aug 6-An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

**Aug 8-The Soviet Union declared war on Japan

**Aug 9-An atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki

Aug 14-Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally

**Sept 2-Japan signed surrender terms aboard the battleship U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay