Charlie Chaplin and Joan Barry
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 and Mildred Harris
Charlie Chaplin married actress Mildred Harris on October 23, 1918, in Los Angeles. Chaplin was 29 years old and Harris was 16. Harris was already working as a film ac...
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Charlie Chaplin’s controversial life
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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Communists Take Control
29 November 1944 — German forces have withdrawn and the communist-led National Liberation Movement controls the country. Rival political organizations are rapidly excl...
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Resistance and Civil Conflict
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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Allies Target German Oil Production
12 May 1944 — American bombers begin a major concentrated campaign against German synthetic fuel plants and oil infrastructure. Germany relies heavily on synthetic fue...
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American Submarines Strangle Japanese Shipping
1 January 1944 — By 1944 American submarines are destroying Japanese merchant shipping at a rate Japan cannot replace. Oil, food, raw materials and military supplies b...
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Axis Occupation
1941–1944 — Germany, Italy and Bulgaria occupy Greece after the Axis invasion.
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Battle of the Bulge Begins
16 December 1944 — Germany launches a surprise offensive through the Ardennes in an attempt to split Allied armies and seize Antwerp. Initial German advances create a ...
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Crimean Offensive Begins
8 April 1944 — Soviet forces attack German and Romanian troops in Crimea. Axis defenses collapse rapidly and Sevastopol falls in May. The Soviet victory removes an imp...
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D-Day
6 June 1944 — Allied forces land on the Normandy coast in Operation Overlord. American, British, Canadian and other Allied formations assault five principal beaches wh...
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German Retreat Leaves Widespread Destruction
1 July 1944 — As German armies retreat through Belarus and Poland, infrastructure, villages and transport networks are frequently destroyed. Nazi occupation has alread...
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Hideki Tojo
1940–1944 senior Japanese leadership — General Hideki Tojo becomes Japanese prime minister in October 1941 as negotiations with the United States approach collapse. He...
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Lend-Lease Mobility Strengthens Soviet Offensives
1 January 1944 — By 1944 large numbers of American trucks, locomotives, food supplies and communications equipment are supporting Soviet logistics. Soviet weapons prod...
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Maskirovka Conceals Operation Bagration
1 June 1944 — Soviet commanders employ deception techniques including camouflage, false radio traffic and concealed force concentrations. German intelligence underesti...
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Minsk Is Retaken
3 July 1944 — Soviet forces recapture Minsk during Operation Bagration. Large German formations east of the city are trapped and destroyed or captured. The Red Army no...
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Operation Bagration
22 June 1944 — Exactly three years after Barbarossa, the Soviet Union launches Operation Bagration against German Army Group Centre in Belarus. Soviet forces achieve d...
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Operation Bagration Begins
22 June 1944 — The Red Army launches a huge offensive against German Army Group Centre in Belarus. Soviet commanders use deception, enormous artillery concentrations, ...
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Paris Is Liberated
25 August 1944 — French and Allied forces complete the liberation of Paris after an uprising by resistance groups and the arrival of Free French troops. General Charle...
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Polish Committee of National Liberation Is Proclaimed
22 July 1944 — The Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation presents itself as a new governing authority for liberated Polish territory. The committee cha...
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Polish Underground Launches Operation Tempest
4 January 1944 — The Polish Home Army begins implementing Operation Tempest as Soviet forces approach prewar Polish territory. Underground units attempt to fight Germa...
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Red Army Reaches Lublin
24 July 1944 — Soviet forces capture Lublin in eastern Poland. The Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation begins establishing political authority in ter...
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Romania Switches Sides
23 August 1944 — King Michael leads a coup that removes Ion Antonescu and ends Romania's alliance with Germany. Romania soon joins the war against the Axis. Germany lo...
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Siege of Budapest Begins
29 December 1944 — Soviet and Romanian forces encircle Budapest. Hitler orders the city held while German and Hungarian troops continue resistance. Fighting becomes ex...
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Siege of Leningrad Is Fully Lifted
27 January 1944 — Soviet offensives drive German forces far enough from Leningrad to end the siege. The city has endured nearly nine hundred days of blockade, bombardm...
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Soviet Deception Conceals Operation Bagration
1 June 1944 — In the weeks before Bagration, Soviet commanders employ extensive deception measures known broadly as maskirovka. Troop concentrations are concealed, fal...
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Untitled1 May 1944 — Allied deception operations intensify before the Normandy invasion. False radio traffic, dummy formations, controlled double agents and the fictio...
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