Timeline of World War 2 from 26 Jan 1942
Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when First American forces arrive in Great Britain
26 Jan 1942:
First American forces arrive in Great Britain
Apr 1942:
Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers
23 Apr 1942:
German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain
8 May 1942:
German summer offensive begins in the Crimea
26 May 1942:
Rommel begins an offensive against the Gazala Line
27 May 1942:
SS Leader Reinhard Heydrich attacked in Prague
30 May 1942:
First thousand-bomber British air raid in Cologne
Jun 1942:
Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz
4 Jun 1942:
Reinhard Heydrich dies of wounds
5 Jun 1942:
Germans besiege Sevastopol
10 Jun 1942:
Nazis liquidate Lidice, Czechoslovakia in reprisal for Heydrich's assassination
21 Jun 1942:
Germany take Tobruk
25 Jun 1942:
General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in London
1 Jul 1942:
First Battle of El Alamein
4 Jul 1942:
Germans take Sevastopol
5 Jul 1942:
Soviet resistance in the Crimea ends
9 Jul 1942:
Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR
22 Jul 1942:
First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps
22 Jul 1942:
Treblinka extermination camp opened
12 Aug 1942:
Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow
17 Aug 1942:
First all-American air attack in Europe
23 Aug 1942:
Massive German air raid on Stalingrad
2 Sep 1942:
Germans driven back by British in the Battle of Alam Halfa
13 Sep 1942:
Battle of Stalingrad begins
18 Oct 1942:
Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos
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Timeline of World War 2 from 26 Jan 1942
Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when First American forces arrive in Great Britain