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First Battle of El Alamein begins
Was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign in WW2. German General Erwin Rommel tried to attack his Allied defensive positions, General Claude Auchinleck's army, with his Afrika Corps. The battle marked the high point of WW2. -
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1942
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Anne Frank and family go into hiding
Anne Frank and her family hid out in a business bilding and she kept a diary of what exactly happened that whole time. It was connected to WW2 becuase her diary gave us an inside look while she was held captive as a jew in the concetration camps. -
Treblinka
Treblinka death camp opened in Poland. It was the first deportation of Jews. It was built by Nazi Germans in WW2. -
Manhattan Project
Created by the armycorp of engineers;the U.S. effort to design an atomic bomb. -
6th German Army begins attack on Stalingrad.
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for the city of Stalingrad. -
Battle of "Bloody Ridge" begins.
A battle between Imperial Japanese Army and allied United States Marine Corps.It was a Pacific Campaign of World War ll. -
Battle of Santa Cruz, off Guadalcanal.
Fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Two ships were shooting after each other but most shootings and attacks were from aircrafts. -
German troops begin retreat from El Alamein.
The second battle of El Alamein. It was an allied victory and forced Rommel to retreat into Tunisia. -
First nuclear reactor goes critical
Enrico Ferr created Chicago Pile-1, the first Nucleur Reactor. It created atomic bombs for WW2. -
Anthony Eden reports on mass executions
He said that the Nazis were exterminating Europes jews and there was nothing Britain could do about it.
