European Timeline 1943
Category: Other
Updated: 3 Jan 2019
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Created byCaleb Cummings
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January 14-24, 1943: The Casablanca conference between Churchill and RooseveltFebruary 27, 1943: First bombing raid by Americans on Germany at WilhelmshavenFebruary 2, 1943: Germany's surrender at Stalingrad, the first major defeatMarch 2, 1943: Germans begin to withdraw from Tunisia, AfricaApril 19, 1943: The Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto.May 13, 1943: German and Italian troops surrender in North AfricaMay 16, 1943: Jewish resistance is ended in the Warsaw ghettoJune 11, 1943: Himmler orders the liquidation of all ghettos in PolandJuly 9-July 22, 1943: Allies land in Italy, Allies bomb Rome, Americans capture Palermo, Sicily,July 25-26, 1943: Mussolini is arrested and the Fascist government falls, Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes overAugust 12-17, 1943: The Germans evacuate from Sicily.September 8, 1943: The Italian surrender is announcedSeptember 11-23, 1943: Sep. 11: Allies occupy Rome. Sep. 12: Germans rescue Mussolini. Sep. 23: Mussolini re-establishes a fascist governmentOctober 13, 1943: Italy declares war on GermanyNovember 28, 1943: Plans for the invasion of Southern France, confirmation of a decision to invade Western Europe in the spring of 1944. A promise by Stalin to join the war against Japan after Germany was defeated.
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