Period+1+WWII+Page

=Jan 4th to June 30th, 1942=

July 1, 1943
The [|U.S.] government begins directly withholding income tax from wages.

July 10, 1943
Over 160,000 [|Allied] troops land in [|Sicily], beginning [|Operation Husky].

July 24, 1943
[|The Allies] begin bombing Hamburg.

July 25, 1943
Benito Mussolini's fascist government is overthrown in [|Italy]. The new Italian government begins peace talks.

August 1, 1943
[|The Allies] bomb the Ploesti oil fields in [|Romania].

August 11, 1943
The Quebec Conference between the [|U.S.] and [|Britain] begins.

August 15, 1943
[|U.S.] troops retake Kiska island in the [|Aleutians].

August 17, 1943
Operation Husky, the [|Allied invasion of Sicily], is successfully concluded when American troops take Messina.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">September 3, 1943
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">[|British] troops land on mainland [|Italy], beginning the [|Allied campaign in Italy]. American troops land six days later. The new Italian government formally surrenders.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">September 10, 1943
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">[|German] troops occupy Rome. Mussolini soon declares himself the head of a new fascist Italian government in German-occupied northern [|Italy].

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">October 13, 1943
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">[|Italy] declares war on [|Germany].

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">November 1, 1943
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">[|U.S. Marines] land on [|Bougainville island] in the [|Solomons].

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">November 20, 1943
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">[|U.S. Army] troops land on Makin island in the [|Gilberts]. The next day, [|U.S. Marines] land on Tarawa. Within four days, both islands were secured, but at the cost of thousands of casualties.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">November 8, 1943
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">The Teheran Conference between the [|U.S.], [|Britain], and the [|USSR] begins. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet together for the first time.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">December 1, 1943
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">The Teheran Conference between the [|U.S.], [|Britain], and the [|USSR] is successfully concluded. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agree that the Western Allies would [|invade France in June 1944] and that when it began the USSR would launch a new offensive from the east.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">December 24, 1943
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">Dwight Eisenhower is named supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces.

= January 1st-June 30th, 1944 = Jan 6, 1944 - Soviet troops advance into Poland.



Jan 17, 1944 - First attack toward Cassino, Italy. The U.S 5th Army commander General Clark launched the first attack of the Battle of Monte Cassino or the Battle of Rome.

Jan 27, 1944 - Leningrad relieved after a 900-day siege. It started on 8 September 1941, and lasted 872 day until January 27th, 1944.



Feb 15-18 - Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino.



Feb 16, 1944 - Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead. Shortly after midnight, a hole in the infantry left the door wide open for three German Regiments and 60 tanks.

March 4, 1944 - Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies.



March 15, 1944 - Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins.

March 18, 1944 - British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on [|Hamburg, Germany.]

April 8, 1944 - Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea.

May 9, 1944 - Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol.

May 11, 1944 - Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome.

May 12, 1944 - Germans surrender in the Crimea. Russians tried to liberate Crimea from the German Wehrmachts Over Germany The Americans bomb oil plants in Germany with 800 bombers and a large fighter escort, 46 bombers and ten fighters were lost while 150 German fighters were lost.

May 15, 1944 - Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line. The Allied commanders planned for D-Day

May 18, 1944 -Allies take the town of Monte Cassino after 20,000 deaths



June 5, 1944 - Allies enter Rome. British drop 5,000 bombs on Normandy German codes are deciphered in real time

June 6, 1944 - D-Day landings. 155,000 allied troops land in Normandy for the start of operation overlord

June 9, 1944 - Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins. Intent to take Finland before pushing for Berlin

June 13, 1944 - First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain. These attacks continue throughout June

June 19, 1944 - Battle of the Philippine Sea: Three Japanese carriers are sunk along with hundreds of Japanese planes are shot down

June 22, 1944 - Operation Bagration begins (the Soviet summer offensive). In the beginning of the operation the Soviets destroy the German Army Group Centre

June 25, 1944 - Battle of Tali-lhantala. Battle between the Finnish and the Soviets: largest battle fought in the history of the Nordic countries.

July 1-December 31, 1944
July 3 - Soviet forces recapture Minsk July 9 - Americans take Saipan ; Allied troops lib erate Caen July 11 - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States. July 20 - Hitler survives an assassination attempt by senior German officers with light wounds. July 21 - Hitler appoints General Guderian to chief of the army (OKH). The Marines land in Guam July 22 - The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland July 24 - The Marines land in Tinian ; Soviet forces liberate concentration camp at Majdanek July 25 - One of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed. July 25-30 - Allied forces break-out of Normandy encirclement in "Operation Cobra" July 28 - The Russians reach the old German-Russian border in central Poland July 30 - Patton breaks out of the beachhead deep into France

Aug 1 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland. Aug 4 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.

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Aug 5 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents lib erate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners. Aug 15 - The Allies land in southern France Aug 23 - Romania surren ders to the Russians. Its oil fields were Germany's only source of natural oil Aug 25 - Paris is liberated. Aug 28 - Marseille and Toulon are liberated. Aug 31 - Red Army takes Bucharest

Sep 2- Marseille and Toulon are liberated. Sep 3- Brussels liberated Sep 4- World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberate the Belgian city of Antwerp. Sep 6- Finland and Bulgaria surrenders to the Russians Sep 8- 1st German V-2 ballistic missile attack on Britain ; Soviets and Finns sign peace treaty Sep 12- The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Sep 13- American troops reach the Siegfried Line in western Germany Sep 17- Airborne troops from Canada, Great Britain, and the United States parachute into Arnhem, as a part of Operation Market Garden. Sep 19- Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the Continuation War)

Oct 2- World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising. Oct 5- British forces land in Greece Oct 10- The Germans evacuate Riga, Latvia Oct 14- British liberate Athens; Rommel forced to commit suicide for alleged involvement in July assassination plot against Hitler Oct 20- The Marines land in Leyte, in the Philippines. In response, the Japanese Navy begins to use Kamikaze suicide pilots.

Oct 23-26 - U.S. naval forces destroy remnants of Japanese Navy at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval engagement in history

Nov 7- Roosevelt elected to fourth term Nov 14- B-29 bombers begin to bomb Tokyo from bases in the Mariana islands

Dec 15- American forces invade Phillipine island of Mindoro Dec 16-The German attack in the Ardennes begin ; German Army launches "Battle of the Bulge" offensive on the Western Front Dec 17- Waffen SS executes 81 American prisoners of war in "Malmedy Massacre"

1945: January 1st - June 30th
January 16 End of the Ardennes offensive. American and British troops meet at Houffalize. Losses: 32.000 soldiers (24.000 Germans and 8.000 Allied), 2500 civilians; 1300 tanks, 1280 planes and 6.000 vehicles.

January 17 Russian troops capture Warsaw, Poland.

January 20 – The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw. The Holocaust: The evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp begins. January 23 – Hungary drops out of World War II, agreeing to an armistice with the Allies.

February 3 – The Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific War against Japan, once hostilities against Germany are concluded. United States forces capture Manila, Philippines from the Japanese Imperial Army.

February 4 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin begin the Yalta Conference (ends February 11).

13 February 1945, Allied air offensive against German railway system. Dresden, Germany is burned down in an incendiary raid, 130,000 killed.

February 14 – Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations.

February 19 – Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.

February 23 – Battle of Iwo Jima: A group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (taken by Joe Rosenthal), later wins a Pulitzer Prize.

March 9–10 – American B-29 bombers attack Japan with incendiary bombs; Tokyo is fire-bombed killing 100,000 citizens.

March 16 – The Battle of Iwo Jima unofficially ends, with small pockets of guerrilla resistance persisting past the official conclusion of the battle.

March 26 – The Battle of Iwo Jima officially ends, with the mopping up of the remaining areas of Japansese resistance.

March 30 – Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna.

April 4 – American troops liberate their first Nazi concentration camp, Ohrdruf death camp in Germany. April 12 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945) dies suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia; Vice President Harry S. Truman (1945–1953) becomes the 33rd President.

April 30 – Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide as the Red Army approaches the Führerbunker in Berlin. Karl Dönitz succeeds Hitler as President of Germany. Joseph Goebbels succeeds Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. May 1 – Joseph Goebbels and his wife commit suicide after killing their six children. Karl Dönitz appoints Count Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk as the new Chancellor of Germany.

May 2 – The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin. Soviet soldiers hoist the Red flag over the Reich Chancellery.

May 8 – V-E Day (Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders) commemorates the end of World War II in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.

May 8–29 – Sétif massacre: In Algeria, thousands die as French troops and released Italian POWs kill an estimated 6,000 to 40,000 Algerian citizens. (see Setif massacre for details).

May 14–15 – Battle of Poljana: The last battle of World War II in Europe is fought at Poljana near Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia.

June 21 – The Battle of Okinawa ends. June 26 – The United Nations Charter is signed.