Timeline of World War II (1942)

This is a timeline of events that occurred during World War II in 1942.

1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein ; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps ; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad ; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea ; Reinhard Heydrich 's car after attack by Czech resistance ; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops work on the Case Blue plan to supply the Axis Powers with needed petroleum supplies
British soldiers captured by the Japanese after the Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942
The state of the Allies and Axis powers in June 1942
Dead Japanese soldiers at the Matanikau River, Guadalcanal
The state of the Allies and Axis powers in November 1942
The state of the Allies and Axis powers in December 1942, showing Allied progress in Northern Africa