Timeline of World War 2 from 13 May 1943
Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
13 May 1943:
German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
16 May 1943:
Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto ends
16 May 1943:
British air raid on the Ruhr
22 May 1943:
Germany suspends U-boat operations in the North Atlantic
11 Jun 1943:
Heinrich Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland
5 Jul 1943:
Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk
9 Jul 1943:
Allies land in Sicily
19 Jul 1943:
Allies bomb Rome
22 Jul 1943:
Americans capture Palermo, Sicily
24 Jul 1943:
British bombing raid on Hamburg
25 Jul 1943:
Mussolini is arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls
25 Jul 1943:
Pietro Badoglio takes over Italian government and negotiates with Allies
27 Jul 1943:
Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg
12 Aug 1943:
Germans evacuate Sicily
17 Aug 1943:
American daylight air raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt in Germany
17 Aug 1943:
Allies reach Messina, Sicily
23 Aug 1943:
Soviet troops recapture Kharkov
8 Sep 1943:
Italians surrender to Allies
9 Sep 1943:
Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto
11 Sep 1943:
Germans occupy Rome
12 Sep 1943:
Germans rescue Mussolini
23 Sep 1943:
Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government
1 Oct 1943:
Allies enter Naples, Italy
13 Oct 1943:
Italy declares war on Germany
13 Oct 1943:
Second American air raid on Schweinfurt
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Timeline of World War 2 from 13 May 1943
Key events of the Second World War, 1939-1945, starting when German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa