1943 Timeline

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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

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies

  • Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa

  • U.S. codebreakers pinpoint the location of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto and shoot him down

  • 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

  • U.S. invades Attu in the Aleutian Islands

  • German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa

  • 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

  • U.S. begins submarine warfare

  • Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer of the Schutzstaffel, orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland

  • U.S. begin to bomb the Japanese on Wake Island

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    Allies enter Sicily

  • Allies bomb Rome

  • 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

  • Italian surrender to Allies is announced

  • Germans occupy Rome

  • Germans rescue Mussolini

  • Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government

  • Japanese execute approximately 100 Americans POW's on Wake Island

  • 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

  • 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

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