Timeline of World War II (1942)

1942 in the Second World War
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	; 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
Location	Global
Belligerents
Allies Soviet Union; United States; United Kingdom; China; Free France; Poland; Canada; Australia; New Zealand; South Africa; Norway; Netherlands; Belgium; Luxembourg; Czechoslovakia; Greece; Yugoslavia; Philippines; Ethiopia; Mexico; Brazil;	Axis Germany; Japan; Italy; Slovakia; Romania; Hungary; Bulgaria; Croatia; Thailand; Finland Vichy France

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