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During World War II (1939–1945), the Allied forces of the United States and the United Kingdom carried out a widespread strategic bombing campaign against German citie...
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Joan Barry was an American actress who became involved with Charlie Chaplin during the early 1940s. Their relationship later resulted in a highly publicized paternity ...
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Charlie Chaplin was an English actor, filmmaker, composer, and producer who became one of the most prominent figures of twentieth-century cinema. His career included s...
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1942–1944 — Communist-led partisans, Balli Kombëtar and other nationalist forces resist Italian and later German occupation. Rival resistance movements also fight one ...
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1942–1945 armaments leadership — Albert Speer becomes Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production in 1942. His ministry attempts to rationalize industrial output, s...
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1942–1945 armaments leadership — Albert Speer becomes Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production in 1942. His ministry attempts to rationalize industrial output, s...
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19 November 1942 — Vasilevsky plays a central role in Soviet strategic planning for Operation Uranus and later major offensives. His work illustrates the increasingly ...
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27 May 1942 — American commanders possess increasingly strong intelligence that Japan intends to attack Midway. Cryptanalysts working against Japanese naval codes help...
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16 January 1942 — Roosevelt creates the War Production Board to coordinate conversion of the American economy to wartime needs. Automobile plants, steel mills, aircraf...
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4 June 1942 — American carrier forces intercept a Japanese operation aimed at Midway Atoll. U.S. cryptanalytic intelligence allows Admiral Chester Nimitz to position c...
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23 August 1942 — German forces begin the major assault phase against Stalingrad after intensive Luftwaffe bombing. The city's industrial and symbolic importance combin...
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23 August 1942 — German forces begin the major assault phase against Stalingrad while the wider German campaign pushes toward oil resources in the Caucasus. Fighting i...
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8 January 1942 — Soviet offensives expand around the Rzhev-Vyazma salient west of Moscow. Fighting in the region becomes prolonged and extraordinarily costly. The sali...
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28 June 1942 — Germany launches its major summer offensive toward southern Russia and the Caucasus. Hitler seeks the oil resources of the Caucasus and control of the V...
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1942–1945 senior Allied command — Eisenhower rises rapidly to become the principal American commander responsible for coalition operations in North Africa, the Mediter...
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24 November 1942 — Manstein receives command of Army Group Don during the Stalingrad crisis. He attempts to organize relief of the Sixth Army and later conducts the su...
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2 February 1942 — Fritz Sauckel's later appointment as General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment in March formalizes a rapidly expanding coercive labor system, whi...
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22 June 1941 — As Chief of the Army General Staff, Halder helps direct Germany's opening eastern campaign. His diary records both military planning and the rapid reali...
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23 August 1942 — Paulus commands the German Sixth Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. After encirclement he obeys Hitler's order to remain in place. Hitler promotes ...
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1 January 1942 — By 1942 SS planning for a postwar German empire in Eastern Europe envisions massive population displacement, German settlement and racial reordering. ...
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23 July 1942 — Hitler issues Directive No. 45, dividing German strategic effort between Stalingrad and the Caucasus. Securing oil becomes a central objective because G...
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24 November 1942 — Hitler orders the Sixth Army to remain inside the Stalingrad pocket rather than attempt an immediate breakout. He expects outside relief and air sup...
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20 January 1942 — Wannsee provides a powerful investigative anchor, but the process begins earlier. Follow antisemitic legislation, ghettos, deportations, invasion of ...
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17 September 1942 — Brigadier General Leslie Groves is placed in charge of the Manhattan Project. He oversees enormous construction, procurement, secrecy and industria...
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24 November 1942 — Hitler commits to holding Stalingrad while the Luftwaffe attempts to supply the encircled Sixth Army. Required daily tonnage far exceeds what can re...
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23 August 1942 — German aircraft conduct devastating attacks on Stalingrad as ground forces approach. Large areas are destroyed and many civilians are killed. The bomb...
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13 August 1942 — The U.S. Army formally establishes the Manhattan Engineer District, the administrative framework that becomes the Manhattan Project. Scientific labora...
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