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
The British victory turned the tide in the North African Campaign and ended the Axis threat to Egypt...
8 Nov 1942:
US invasion of North Africa begins
After the Anglo-American landings (Operation Torch) in North-West Africa in November 1942, and subse...
11 Nov 1942:
Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France
Germany kept two million French soldiers prisoner in Germany, carrying out forced labour. They were ...
19 Nov 1942:
Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins
On 19 November 1942, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the weak...
2 Dec 1942:
Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago
Fermi left Italy in 1938 to escape new Italian Racial Laws that affected his Jewish wife Laura Capon...
13 Dec 1942:
Rommel withdraws from El Agheila
Rommel's supply position had not improved: Tunisia was still being prioritised for supplies and of t...
16 Dec 1942:
Soviets defeat Italian troops on the River Don in the USSR
The Battle of El Alamein, lasting from July to November 1942, was the turning point of the war for t...
17 Dec 1942:
British House of Commons told of mass executions of Jews by Nazis
he Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations was a statement issued on December 17, 1942, b...
31 Dec 1942:
Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships
The Battle of the Barents Sea was a naval engagement on 31 December 1942 between warships of Nazi Ge...
2 Jan 1943:
Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus
In early 1943, the Germans began to withdraw and consolidate their positions in the region due to se...
10 Jan 1943:
Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad
The battle began on August 23, 1942, and on the same day, the city suffered heavy aerial bombardment...
14 Jan 1943:
Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt
The Casablanca Conference (codenamed SYMBOL) was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocc...
23 Jan 1943:
British take Tripoli
Tripoli was controlled by Italy until 1943 when the provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica were cap...
27 Jan 1943:
First bombing raid by Americans on Germany, in Wilhelmshaven
VIII Bomber Command Mission Number 31 was the first daylight bombing mission flown by the Eighth Air...
2 Feb 1943:
Germans surrender at Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front ...
8 Feb 1943:
Soviet troops take Kursk
During World War II, Kursk was occupied by Germany between November 4, 1941 and February 8, 1943. Th...
14 Feb 1943:
Battle of Kasserine Pass between US and Germany in North Africa
The Battle of Kasserine Pass was a battle of the Tunisia Campaign of World War II that took place in...
16 Feb 1943:
Soviets re-take Kharkov
The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken...
18 Feb 1943:
Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich
The White Rose was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany led by a group of st...
2 Mar 1943:
Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa
Following the Allied landings in Morocco in late 1942, the governments of both Vichy France and of T...
15 Mar 1943:
Germans re-take Kharkov
The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken...
16 Mar 1943:
22 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats
22 ships from Convoys HX 229/SC 122 and one U-boat are sunk in the largest North Atlantic U-boat "wo...
6 Apr 1943:
Axis forces in Tunisia begin to withdrawal
The Battle of Wadi Akarit (Operation Scipio) was an Allied attack from 6–7 April 1943, to dislodge A...
19 Apr 1943:
Waffen-SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto...
7 May 1943:
Allies take Tunisia
The Tunisian Campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) was a series of battles that took place ...
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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