Timeline of World War 2 from 1 Nov 1942
Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein
1 Nov 1942:
Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein
8 Nov 1942:
US invasion of North Africa begins
11 Nov 1942:
Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France
19 Nov 1942:
Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins
2 Dec 1942:
Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago
13 Dec 1942:
Rommel withdraws from El Agheila
16 Dec 1942:
Soviets defeat Italian troops on the River Don in the USSR
17 Dec 1942:
British House of Commons told of mass executions of Jews by Nazis
31 Dec 1942:
Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships
2 Jan 1943:
Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus
10 Jan 1943:
Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad
14 Jan 1943:
Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt
23 Jan 1943:
British take Tripoli
27 Jan 1943:
First bombing raid by Americans on Germany, in Wilhelmshaven
2 Feb 1943:
Germans surrender at Stalingrad
8 Feb 1943:
Soviet troops take Kursk
14 Feb 1943:
Battle of Kasserine Pass between US and Germany in North Africa
16 Feb 1943:
Soviets re-take Kharkov
18 Feb 1943:
Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich
2 Mar 1943:
Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa
15 Mar 1943:
Germans re-take Kharkov
16 Mar 1943:
22 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats
6 Apr 1943:
Axis forces in Tunisia begin to withdrawal
19 Apr 1943:
Waffen-SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto
7 May 1943:
Allies take Tunisia
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Timeline of World War 2 from 1 Nov 1942
Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein