1943 Timeline

The Allies begin to take over the Caucasus Islands

Jan 2, 1943

Churchill and Roosevelt in Casablanca, French Morocco.

Period: Jan 14, 1943 to Jan 24, 1943

Roosevelt announces that the war can only end with "unconditional German surrender"

First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven)

Jan 27, 1943

They destroyed two-thirds of the ports buildings

Japanese begin to evacuate Guadalcanal

Feb 1, 1943

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

Feb 2, 1943

Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa

Mar 2, 1943

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

Apr 18, 1943

Waffen SS attacks Jewish resistance

Apr 19, 1943

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

Apr 21, 1943

U.S. invades Attu in the Aleutian Islands

May 10, 1943

German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa

May 13, 1943

Jewish resistance ends in the Warsaw ghetto

May 16, 1943

56,000 Jews were captured and deported
7,000 Jews were killed

Japanese end their occupation of the Attu Islands

May 31, 1943

U.S. begins submarine warfare

Jun 1, 1943

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

Jun 11, 1943

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

Jul 8, 1943

Allies enter Sicily

Period: Jul 9, 1943 to Jul 10, 1943

Allies bomb Rome

Jul 19, 1943

Americans capture Palmero, Sicily

Jul 22, 1943

Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls

Period: Jul 25, 1943 to Jul 26, 1943

A group of 15 U.S. PT-boats attempt to block Japanese convoys south of Kolombangra Islands in the Solomon Islands

Period: Aug 1, 1943 to Aug 2, 1943

Germans evacuate Sicily

Period: Aug 12, 1943 to Aug 17, 1943

Italian surrender to Allies is announced

Sep 8, 1943

Germans occupy Rome

Sep 11, 1943

Germans rescue Mussolini

Sep 12, 1943

Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government

Sep 23, 1943

Japanese execute approximately 100 Americans POW's on Wake Island

Oct 7, 1943

Emperor Hirohito states that his country's situation is "truly grave"

Oct 26, 1943

It means that they're in great danger

U.S. marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands

Nov 1, 1943

U.S. troops invade Makin and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands.

Nov 20, 1943

It is known as "Bloody Tarawa" due to the bloody 76 hour battle that occurred

Japanese end resistance on Tarawa and Makin

Nov 23, 1943