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Allies begin to take over Buna, New Guinea
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Casablanca conference
Jan 14-24
Churchill and Roosevelt meet and decide the war must end with unconditional surrender -
Americans bomb Germany for the 1st time.
Destroys 2/3 of ports and buildings -
Japan evacuates Guadalcanal
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad
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Germans withdraw from Tunisia
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U.S. code breakers pinpoint Adm. Yamamoto
He is spotted in a Japanese bomber, 18 P-38 fighters shoot him down -
Waffen-SS attack Jewish resistance
in Warsaw -
Roosevelt announces...
Japanese executed members of the D-L raid -
Usa invades Attu
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Warsaw Ghetto Jewish resistance
Jewish resistance ended, 13,000 jews killed, buildings burned to the ground -
Japanese end the occupation of...
Aleutian islands -
U.S. begins sub-warfare
To halt Japanese supply shipping -
Himmler orders liquidation of all Jewish Ghettos in Poland
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U.S. begins to bomb wake island
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3 Italy events
Jul 9/10- Allies land in Sicily
Jul 19- Allies bomb Rome
Jul 22- Americans capture Palermo, Sicily -
Mussolini arrested & Fascist gov falls.
Marshall Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with the allies
Jul 25/26 -
15 U.S PT-boats
attempt to block japanese convoys south of Kolombangra island in the Solomon Islands, led by Lt. J.F.K leader of PT-109 Aug 1-2 -
Germans evacuate Sicily
Aug 12-17 -
Italians surrender is announced
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Italy other 3 events
Sep 11- Germans occupy Rome
Sep 12- Germans rescue Mussolini
Sep 23- Mussolini re-establishes a fascist gov. -
Japanese execute 100 Americans
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Marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon is
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U.S. troops invade Makin & Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands
U.S. met harsh restistance -
Japan ends resistance on Tarawa and Makin