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The Allies begin to take over the Caucasus Islands
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Churchill and Roosevelt in Casablanca, French Morocco.
Roosevelt announces that the war can only end with "unconditional German surrender" -
First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven)
They destroyed two-thirds of the ports buildings -
Japanese begin to evacuate Guadalcanal
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies
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Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa
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U.S. codebreakers pinpoint the location of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto and shoot him down
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Waffen SS attacks Jewish resistance
The Waffen SS is the armed wing of the Nazi's SS organization -
President Roosevelt announces that the Japanese have executed several men from the Doolittle Raid
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U.S. invades Attu in the Aleutian Islands
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German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
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Jewish resistance ends in the Warsaw ghetto
56,000 Jews were captured and deported
7,000 Jews were killed -
Japanese end their occupation of the Attu Islands
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U.S. begins submarine warfare
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Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer of the Schutzstaffel, orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland
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U.S. begin to bomb the Japanese on Wake Island
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Allies enter Sicily
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Allies bomb Rome
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Americans capture Palmero, Sicily
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Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls
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A group of 15 U.S. PT-boats attempt to block Japanese convoys south of Kolombangra Islands in the Solomon Islands
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Germans evacuate Sicily
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Italian surrender to Allies is announced
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Germans occupy Rome
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Germans rescue Mussolini
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Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government
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Japanese execute approximately 100 Americans POW's on Wake Island
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Emperor Hirohito states that his country's situation is "truly grave"
It means that they're in great danger -
U.S. marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands
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U.S. troops invade Makin and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands.
It is known as "Bloody Tarawa" due to the bloody 76 hour battle that occurred -
Japanese end resistance on Tarawa and Makin