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  • China
    1943
    Chinese Civil War

    Chiang attacked the CPC in 1943 with the propaganda piece China's Destiny

    China
    1943

    Chiang attacked the CPC in 1943 with the propaganda piece China's Destiny, which questioned the CPC's power after the war, while the CPC strongly opposed Chiang's leadership and referred to his regime as fascist in an attempt to generate a negative public image. Both leaders knew that a deadly battle had begun between themselves.




  • Berlin, Germany
    1943
    Martin Bormann

    Hitler Created a Three-man Committee

    Berlin, Germany
    1943

    Bormann's power and effective reach broadened considerably during the war. By early 1943, the war produced a labour crisis for the regime. Hitler created a three-man committee with representatives of the State, the army, and the Party in an attempt to centralise control of the war economy. The committee members were Hans Lammers, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Bormann, who controlled the Party.




  • Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
    1943
    Rosa Parks

    The 1st bus Incident

    Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
    1943

    In 1900, Montgomery had passed a city ordinance to segregate bus passengers by race. Conductors were empowered to assign seats to achieve that goal. One day in 1943, Parks boarded a bus and paid the fare. She then moved to her seat but driver James F. Blake told her to follow city rules and enter the bus again from the back door. When Parks exited the vehicle, Blake drove off without her. Parks waited for the next bus, determined never to ride with Blake again.




  • Poland
    1943
    Armenian Genocide

    Raphael Lemkin coined "genocide"

    Poland
    1943

    The Armenian Genocide took place before the coining of the term genocide. English-language words and phrases used by contemporary accounts to characterize the event include "massacres", "atrocities", "annihilation", "holocaust", "the murder of a nation", "race extermination" and "a crime against humanity". Raphael Lemkin coined "genocide" in 1943, with the fate of the Armenians in mind; he later explained that: "it happened so many times ... It happened to the Armenians, then after the Armenians Hitler took action".




  • Lake Mead, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
    1943
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Surviving Air Crash

    Lake Mead, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
    1943

    Another portion of Hughes' business interests lay in aviation, airlines, and the aerospace and defense industries. Hughes was a lifelong aircraft enthusiast and pilot. He survived four airplane accidents: one in a Thomas-Morse Scout while filming Hell's Angels, one while setting the airspeed record in the Hughes Racer, one at Lake Mead in 1943.




  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    1943
    New York Stock Exchange

    Trading floor is opened to women while men were serving in WWII

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    1943

    In 1943, the trading floor is opened to women while men were serving in WWII.




  • Algeria
    1943
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle the assurance in person that a French force would liberate Paris

    Algeria
    1943

    In Algiers in 1943, Eisenhower gave de Gaulle the assurance in person that a French force would liberate Paris and arranged that the army division of French General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque would be transferred from North Africa to the UK to carry out that liberation.


  • Casablanca, Morocco
    1943
    Charles de Gaulle

    Winston Churchill and General de Gaulle at Marrakesh

    Casablanca, Morocco
    1943

    In Casablanca in 1943, Churchill supported de Gaulle as the embodiment of a French Army that was otherwise defeated, stating that "De Gaulle is the spirit of that Army. Perhaps the last survivor of a warrior race.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Friday Jan 8, 1943
    Nikola Tesla

    Death

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Friday Jan 8, 1943

    On 7 January 1943, at the age of 86, Tesla died alone in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel.


  • Italy
    1943
    Benito Mussolini

    The theory of economic socialization

    Italy
    1943

    In 1943, Mussolini proposed the theory of economic socialization.


  • Germany
    Wednesday Jan 13, 1943
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels pressured Hitler to announce "total war"

    Germany
    Wednesday Jan 13, 1943

    Goebbels pressured Hitler to introduce measures that would produce "total war", including closing businesses not essential to the war effort, conscripting women into the labor force, and enlisting men in previously exempt occupations into the Wehrmacht.


  • Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
    Thursday Jan 14, 1943
    World War II

    Operation Ke

    Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
    Thursday Jan 14, 1943

    Guadalcanal soon became a focal point for both sides with heavy commitments of troops and ships in the battle for Guadalcanal. By the start of 1943, the Japanese were defeated on the island (Guadalcanal) and withdrew their troops. Operation Ke was a largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal. The operation took place between 14 January and 7 February 1943. The withdrawal was carried out on the nights of 1, 4, and 7 February by destroyers. And on 9 February, Allied forces realized that the Japanese were gone and declared Guadalcanal secure, ending the six-month campaign for control of the island.


  • Burbank, California, U.S.
    Thursday Jan 14, 1943
    Ronald Reagan

    First Lieutenant

    Burbank, California, U.S.
    Thursday Jan 14, 1943

    On January 14, 1943, he was promoted to first lieutenant and was sent to the Provisional Task Force Show Unit of This Is the Army at Burbank, California.


  • Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
    1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    Casablanca Conference

    Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
    1943

    At the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, Allied planners agreed on the selection of Sicily – codenamed Operation Husky – and decided to undertake the invasion no later than July. There was concern among the Allied planners that Sicily was an obvious choice – Churchill is reputed to have said "Everyone but a bloody fool would know that it's Sicily"– and that the build-up of resources for the invasion would be detected.


  • Casablanca, Morocco
    Thursday Jan 14, 1943
    World War II

    Casablanca Conference

    Casablanca, Morocco
    Thursday Jan 14, 1943

    At the Casablanca Conference in early 1943, the Allies reiterated the statements issued in the 1942 Declaration, and demanded the unconditional surrender of their enemies. The British and Americans agreed to continue to press the initiative in the Mediterranean by invading Sicily to fully secure the Mediterranean supply routes.


  • Casablanca, Morocco
    Thursday Jan 14, 1943
    Winston Churchill

    Casablanca Conference

    Casablanca, Morocco
    Thursday Jan 14, 1943

    In January 1943, Churchill met Roosevelt at the Casablanca Conference (codename Symbol), which lasted ten days. It was also attended by General Charles de Gaulle on behalf of the Free French Forces. Stalin had hoped to attend but declined because of the situation at Stalingrad. Although Churchill expressed doubts on the matter, the so-called Casablanca Declaration committed the Allies to secure "unconditional surrender" by the Axis powers.


  • Germany
    Friday Jan 15, 1943
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels appointed newly created Air Raid Damage committee

    Germany
    Friday Jan 15, 1943

    On 15 January 1943, Hitler appointed Goebbels as head of the newly created Air Raid Damage committee, which meant Goebbels was nominally in charge of nationwide civil air defenses and shelters as well as the assessment and repair of damaged buildings.


  • Spain
    Thursday Jan 28, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    A suitable body to carry out the plan

    Spain
    Thursday Jan 28, 1943

    On 28 January 1943 Bentley Purchase contacted Montagu with the news he had located a suitable body, probably that of Glyndwr Michael, a tramp who died from eating rat poison that contained phosphorus.


  • Germany
    Saturday Jan 30, 1943
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels believed he had the support of the German people in his call for total war

    Germany
    Saturday Jan 30, 1943

    After receiving an enthusiastic response to his speech of 30 January 1943 on the topic, Goebbels believed he had the support of the German people in his call for total war.


  • Russia
    Tuesday Feb 2, 1943
    Joseph Goebbels

    The catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad

    Russia
    Tuesday Feb 2, 1943

    The catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad (February 1943) – was difficult matters to present to the German public, who were increasingly weary of the war and skeptical that it could be won.


  • U.k
    Thursday Feb 4, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    Montagu and Cholmondeley filed a plan with the Twenty Committee

    U.k
    Thursday Feb 4, 1943

    Montagu selected the code name Mincemeat from a list of centrally held available possibilities. On 4 February 1943 Montagu and Cholmondeley filed their plan for the operation with the Twenty Committee; it was a re-working of Cholmondeley's Trojan Horse plan.


  • United Kingdom
    Sunday Feb 7, 1943
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill arrived home

    United Kingdom
    Sunday Feb 7, 1943

    From Morocco, Churchill went to Cairo, Adana, Cyprus, Cairo again, and Algiers for various purposes. Churchill arrived home on 7 February having been out for the country for nearly a month.


  • Poland
    Feb, 1943
    The Holocaust

    Treblinka extermination camp

    Poland
    Feb, 1943

    Treblinka was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, 4 km (2.5 mi) south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship.


  • Germany
    Thursday Feb 18, 1943
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels's next speech was a passionate demand for his audience to commit to total war

    Germany
    Thursday Feb 18, 1943

    Goebbels's next speech, the Sportpalast speech of 18 February 1943, was a passionate demand for his audience to commit to total war, which he presented as the only way to stop the Bolshevik onslaught and save the German people from destruction. The speech also had a strong antisemitic element and hinted at the extermination of the Jewish people that was already underway.


  • Kharkov, U.S.S.R. (Present Day Kharkiv, Ukraine)
    Friday Feb 19, 1943
    World War II

    Third Battle of Kharkov

    Kharkov, U.S.S.R. (Present Day Kharkiv, Ukraine)
    Friday Feb 19, 1943

    The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front undertaken by the German Army Group South against the Red Army, between 19 February and 15 March 1943. The German counter strike led to the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod.


  • Soviet Union
    Monday Feb 22, 1943
    Vasily Zaitsev

    Zaytsev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union

    Soviet Union
    Monday Feb 22, 1943

    On 22 February 1943, Zaytsev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. He returned to the front and finished the war at the Battle of the Seelow Heights in Germany, with the military rank of captain. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1943.


  • Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
    Mar, 1943
    Alan Turing

    Turing Returned To Bletchley Park

    Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
    Mar, 1943

    Turing returned to Bletchley Park in March 1943. During his absence, Hugh Alexander had officially assumed the position of head of Hut 8, although Alexander had been de facto head for some time (Turing having little interest in the day-to-day running of the section). Turing became a general consultant for cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park.


  • Krakow, Poland
    1943
    Itzak Stern

    The ghetto was fully liquidated

    Krakow, Poland
    1943

    Kraków's Jews were imprisoned in the Kraków Ghetto six months after German troops invaded Kraków. The ghetto was fully liquidated in 1943. Those considered useful (to be used as slave labor) were sent to Płaszów, including Schindler's workers and Stern. The rest were sent to various death camps across Poland. In Płaszów, Stern and his brother Natan, along with Mietek Pemper and Joseph Bau, were forced to work in Płaszów's office, where they came into frequent contact with the camp's notorious commandant, Amon Göth. Stern helped Pemper in his efforts to prevent the closure and liquidation of Płaszów, knowing that while conditions there were terrible, liquidation likely meant the deaths of every prisoner. Stern kept in contact with Schindler throughout this time and worked to better conditions for the Jews, including transferring workers to Schindler's factory, distributing aid money, and attempting to inform the outside world of their plight.


  • China
    Saturday Mar 20, 1943
    Mao Zedong

    The Chairman of the Communist Party of China

    China
    Saturday Mar 20, 1943

    On 20 March 1943, Mao Zedong became the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, and to enhance the Red Army's military operations, Mao as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, named his close associate General Zhu De to be its Commander-in-Chief.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Thursday Apr 1, 1943
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels was named Stadtpräsident of Berlin

    Berlin, Germany
    Thursday Apr 1, 1943

    On 1 April 1943, Goebbels was named Stadtpräsident of Berlin, thus uniting under his control the city's highest party and governmental offices.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Monday Apr 12, 1943
    Martin Bormann

    Hitler Officially appointed Bormann as Personal Secretary to The Führer

    Berlin, Germany
    Monday Apr 12, 1943

    Preoccupied with military matters and spending most of his time at his military headquarters on the eastern front, Hitler came to rely more and more on Bormann to handle the domestic policies of the country. On 12 April 1943, Hitler officially appointed Bormann as Personal Secretary to the Führer. By this time Bormann had de facto control over all domestic matters, and this new appointment gave him the power to act in an official capacity in any matter.


  • U.K
    Tuesday Apr 13, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    The committee articulated that Operation Mincemeat must be complete

    U.K
    Tuesday Apr 13, 1943

    On 13 April 1943 the committee of the Chiefs of Staff met and agreed that they thought the plan should proceed. The committee informed Colonel John Bevan – the head of London Controlling Section, which controlled the planning and co-ordination of deception operations – that he needed to obtain final approval from Churchill.


  • Warsaw, Poland
    Friday Apr 16, 1943
    The Holocaust

    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Warsaw, Poland
    Friday Apr 16, 1943

    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Majdanek and Treblinka death camps.


  • U.K
    Saturday Apr 17, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    Solving the problem of freezing Michael's corpse feet

    U.K
    Saturday Apr 17, 1943

    In the early hours of 17 April 1943 the corpse of Michael was dressed as Martin, although there was one last-minute hitch: the feet had . Purchase, Montagu and Cholmondeley could not put the boots on, so an electric heater was located and the feet defrosted enough to put the boots on properly. The pocket litter was placed on the body, and the briefcase attached.


  • Scotland, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Apr 21, 1943
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle was scheduled to fly in a Wellington

    Scotland, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Apr 21, 1943

    On 21 April 1943, de Gaulle was scheduled to fly in a Wellington bomber to Scotland to inspect the Free French Navy.


  • Spain
    Friday Apr 30, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    Martin's body pushed into the sea

    Spain
    Friday Apr 30, 1943

    On 30 April 1943, Lt. Norman Jewell, captain of the submarine HMS Seraph, read the 39th Psalm, and Martin's body was gently pushed into the sea where the tide, aided by the push of the submarine's propellers, would bring it ashore off Huelva on the Spanish Atlantic coast.


  • Spain
    May, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    Verify the identity of the dead body

    Spain
    May, 1943

    At midday on 1 May an autopsy was undertaken on Michael's body; Haselden was present and – in order to minimise the possibilities that the two Spanish doctors identified that the body was a three-month-old corpse – Haselden asked if, in the heat of the day and smell of the corpse, the doctors should bring the post mortem to a close and have lunch.


  • San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain
    Wednesday May 5, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    The briefcase send to Madrid

    San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain
    Wednesday May 5, 1943

    On 5 May, the briefcase was passed to the naval headquarters at San Fernando near Cadiz, for forwarding to Madrid.


  • Algiers, Algeria
    May, 1943
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle moved his headquarters to Algiers

    Algiers, Algeria
    May, 1943

    De Gaulle moved his headquarters to Algiers in May 1943, leaving Britain to be on French territory. He became the first joint head.


  • Spain
    Tuesday May 11, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    Spanish authorities returned the briefcase to Haselden

    Spain
    Tuesday May 11, 1943

    On 11 May the briefcase, complete with the documents, was returned to Haselden by the Spanish authorities; he forwarded it to London in the diplomatic bag.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    May, 1943
    Winston Churchill

    Washington Conference (1943)

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    May, 1943

    Churchill met Roosevelt at the third Washington Conference (codename Trident) in May.


  • Germany
    Friday May 14, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    German reaction after the information about the briefcase

    Germany
    Friday May 14, 1943

    On 14 May 1943 Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz met Hitler to discuss Dönitz's recent visit to Italy, his meeting with the Italian leader Benito Mussolini and the progress of the war.


  • Atlantic Ocean
    Friday May 28, 1943
    01:28:00 AM
    World War II

    Black May

    Atlantic Ocean
    Friday May 28, 1943
    01:28:00 AM

    German operations in the Atlantic also suffered. By May 1943, as Allied counter-measures became increasingly effective, the resulting sizeable German submarine losses forced a temporary halt of the German Atlantic naval campaign.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 1, 1943
    Frank Sinatra

    Sinatra signed with Columbia Records

    U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 1, 1943

    Sinatra signed with Columbia Records as a solo artist on June 1, 1943 during the 1942–44 musicians' strike.


  • Algiers, Algeria
    Wednesday Jun 2, 1943
    Charles de Gaulle

    Churchill sent to Algiers to bring de Gaulle back to Britain

    Algiers, Algeria
    Wednesday Jun 2, 1943

    Churchill on 2 June he sent two passenger aircraft and his representative, Duff Cooper, to Algiers to bring de Gaulle back to Britain.


  • Atlanta University, Georgia, U.S.
    1943
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois was abruptly fired from his position at Atlanta University

    Atlanta University, Georgia, U.S.
    1943

    In 1943, at the age of 76, Du Bois was abruptly fired from his position at Atlanta University by college president Rufus Clement.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Thursday Jul 1, 1943
    Martin Bormann

    Giving Adolf Eichmann absolute Powers Over Jews

    Berlin, Germany
    Thursday Jul 1, 1943

    A further decree, signed by Bormann on 1 July 1943, gave Adolf Eichmann absolute powers over Jews, who now came under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Gestapo.


  • New Caledonia
    Friday Jul 2, 1943
    Richard Nixon

    Marine Aircraft Group 25

    New Caledonia
    Friday Jul 2, 1943

    Seeking more excitement, he requested sea duty and on July 2, 1943 was assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 25 and the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command (SCAT), supporting the logistics of operations in the South Pacific Theater.


  • Kursk, U.S.S.R.
    Monday Jul 5, 1943
    World War II

    Battle of Kursk

    Kursk, U.S.S.R.
    Monday Jul 5, 1943

    On 5 July 1943, Germany attacked Soviet forces around the Kursk Bulge. Within a week, German forces had exhausted themselves against the Soviets' deeply echeloned and well-constructed defenses, and for the first time in the war Hitler cancelled the operation before it had achieved tactical or operational success. The battle ended on 23 August 1943. Soviets regain territory along a 2,000 km (1,200 mi) wide front after the battle.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jul, 1943
    Penicillin

    War Production Board drew up a plan for the mass distribution of penicillin stocks to Allied troops

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jul, 1943

    In July 1943, the War Production Board drew up a plan for the mass distribution of penicillin stocks to Allied troops fighting in Europe.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Friday Jul 9, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    Hitler realized the mistake too late

    Berlin, Germany
    Friday Jul 9, 1943

    On 9 July the Allies invaded Sicily in Operation Husky. German signals intercepted by GC&CS showed that even four hours after the invasion of Sicily began, twenty-one aircraft left Sicily to reinforce Sardinia. For a considerable time after the initial invasion, Hitler was still convinced that an attack on the Balkans was imminent, and in late July he sent General Erwin Rommel to Salonika to prepare the defence of the region. By the time the German high command realised the mistake, it was too late to make a difference.


  • Sicily, Italy
    Jul, 1943
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Saved his ship

    Sicily, Italy
    Jul, 1943

    During the invasion of Sicily, in July 1943, as second in command of Wallace, he saved his ship from a night bomber attack. He devised a plan to launch a raft with smoke floats that successfully distracted the bombers, allowing the ship to slip away unnoticed.


  • Sicily, Italy
    Saturday Jul 10, 1943
    World War II

    Operation Husky

    Sicily, Italy
    Saturday Jul 10, 1943

    The Allied invasion of Sicily, code named Operation Husky, the operation begun 9 July and ended 17 August 1943.


  • Orel, U.S.S.R.
    Tuesday Jul 13, 1943
    World War II

    Operation Kutuzov

    Orel, U.S.S.R.
    Tuesday Jul 13, 1943

    Operation Kutuzov was the first of the two counteroffensives launched by the Red Army as part of the Kursk Strategic Offensive Operation. It commenced on 12 July 1943, in the Central Russian Upland, against Army Group Center of the German Wehrmacht. The Operation began on 12 July and ended on 18 August 1943 with the capture of Orel and collapse of the Orel bulge.


  • Poland
    1943
    The Holocaust

    Auschwitz concentration camp

    Poland
    1943

    By 1943, it was evident to the armed forces' leadership that Germany was losing the war. The mass murder continued nevertheless, reaching a "frenetic" pace in 1944 when Auschwitz gassed nearly 500,000 people.


  • Sicily, Italy
    Sunday Jul 25, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    Mussolini was imprisoned

    Sicily, Italy
    Sunday Jul 25, 1943

    On 25 July 1943, as the battle for Sicily went against the Axis forces, the Italian Grand Council of Fascism voted to limit the power of Mussolini, and handed control of the Italian armed forces over to King Victor Emmanuel III. The following day Mussolini met the King, who dismissed him as prime minister; the former dictator was then imprisoned. A new Italian government took power and began secret negotiations with the Allies.


  • Italy
    Sunday Jul 25, 1943
    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini dismissal

    Italy
    Sunday Jul 25, 1943

    Italian radio statement announcing the dismissal of Mussolini and appointment of Badoglio, 25 July 1943.


  • Hamburg, Germany
    Jul, 1943
    World War II

    Bombing of Hamburg

    Hamburg, Germany
    Jul, 1943

    In June 1943 the British and Americans began a strategic bombing campaign against Germany with a goal to disrupt the war economy, reduce morale, and "de-house" the civilian population. The firebombing of Hamburg was among the first attacks in this campaign, inflicting significant casualties and considerable losses on infrastructure of this important industrial center.


  • Älmhult, Sweden
    Wednesday Jul 28, 1943
    IKEA

    Founding

    Älmhult, Sweden
    Wednesday Jul 28, 1943

    Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943 as a mostly mail-order sales business. It began to sell furniture five years later.


  • Smolensk, U.S.S.R.
    Sunday Aug 8, 1943
    World War II

    Battle of Smolensk (1943)

    Smolensk, U.S.S.R.
    Sunday Aug 8, 1943

    The Soviets captured Smolensk in the second battle of Smolensk, which begun on 7 August and ended on 2 October 1943.


  • Białystok, Poland
    Monday Aug 16, 1943
    The Holocaust

    Białystok Ghetto

    Białystok, Poland
    Monday Aug 16, 1943

    In the Białystok Ghetto on 16 August, Jewish insurgents fought for five days when the Germans announced mass deportations.


  • Quebec City, Canada
    Tuesday Aug 17, 1943
    Winston Churchill

    First Quebec Conference

    Quebec City, Canada
    Tuesday Aug 17, 1943

    Churchill met Roosevelt again at the first Quebec Conference (codename Quadrant) in August.


  • Dnieper River, U.S.S.R.
    Friday Aug 27, 1943
    World War II

    Battle of the Dnieper

    Dnieper River, U.S.S.R.
    Friday Aug 27, 1943

    The Battle of the Dnieper (26 August – 23 December) was one of the largest operations in World War II, involving almost 4,000,000 troops at a time stretched on a 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) long front. Soviets reclaim left-bank Ukraine, including the city of Kiev and Donets basin.


  • Salerno, Calabria and Taranto, Italy
    Saturday Sep 4, 1943
    World War II

    Invasion of Italy

    Salerno, Calabria and Taranto, Italy
    Saturday Sep 4, 1943

    On 3 September 1943, the Western Allies invaded the Italian mainland. The invasion lasted to 17 September 1943.


  • Cassibile, Italy
    Saturday Sep 4, 1943
    World War II

    Italy surrendered

    Cassibile, Italy
    Saturday Sep 4, 1943

    The Armistice of Cassibile was an armistice signed on 3 September 1943 by Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano, and made public on 8 September, between the Kingdom of Italy and the Allies. The armistice was approved by both King Victor Emmanuel III and Italian Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio. The armistice stipulated the surrender of Italy to the Allies.


  • Italy, Balkans, Southern France
    Thursday Sep 9, 1943
    World War II

    One million soldier disarmed

    Italy, Balkans, Southern France
    Thursday Sep 9, 1943

    Operation Achse which lasted from 8 to 19 September, was the code name for the German operation supported by Italian fascists to forcibly disarm the Italian armed forces after Italy's armistice with the Allies on 3 September 1943. The Germans disarmed over a million Italian troops within a matter of days, annihilating the Italian military and state.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Saturday Sep 11, 1943
    Hirohito

    The Emperor response on the American advance through the Solomon Islands

    Tokyo, Japan
    Saturday Sep 11, 1943

    On September 11 the Emperor ordered Sugiyama to work with the Navy to implement better military preparation and give adequate supply to soldiers fighting in Rabaul.


  • Italy
    Sunday Sep 12, 1943
    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini was rescued from his prison

    Italy
    Sunday Sep 12, 1943

    Mussolini was rescued by German troops from his prison in Campo Imperatore on 12 September 1943.


  • Hotel Campo Imperatore, Italy
    Monday Sep 13, 1943
    World War II

    Benito Mussolini rescued

    Hotel Campo Imperatore, Italy
    Monday Sep 13, 1943

    German special forces then rescued Mussolini, who then soon established a new client state in German-occupied Italy named the Italian Social Republic, causing an Italian civil war.


  • New Caledonia
    Friday Oct 1, 1943
    Richard Nixon

    Lieutenant

    New Caledonia
    Friday Oct 1, 1943

    On October 1, 1943, Nixon was promoted to lieutenant. Then Nixon commanded the SCAT forward detachments at Vella Lavella, Bougainville, and finally at Green Island (Nissan Island).


  • Burma
    Sep, 1943
    Second Sino-Japanese War

    Chinese forces invaded northern Burma

    Burma
    Sep, 1943

    Chinese forces invaded northern Burma in late 1943 besieged Japanese troops in Myitkyina and captured Mount Song.


  • Poznań, Poland
    Wednesday Oct 6, 1943
    The Holocaust

    Himmler ordered that women and children be shot

    Poznań, Poland
    Wednesday Oct 6, 1943

    In a speech on 6 October 1943 to party leaders, Heinrich Himmler said he had ordered that women and children be shot, but Peter Longerich and Christian Gerlach write that the murder of women and children began at different times in different areas, suggesting local influence.


  • U.S.
    Sunday Oct 10, 1943
    John F. Kennedy

    Lieutenant junior grade

    U.S.
    Sunday Oct 10, 1943

    On October 10, he was promoted to lieutenant junior grade.


  • Italy and Malta
    Wednesday Oct 13, 1943
    Benito Mussolini

    Italy declared war on Nazi Germany

    Italy and Malta
    Wednesday Oct 13, 1943

    Italy finally declared war on Nazi Germany on 13 October 1943 from Malta. Thousands of troops were supplied to fight against the Germans, while others refused to switch sides and had joined the Germans. The Badoglio government held a political truce with the leftist partisans for the sake of Italy and to rid the land of the Nazis.


  • Sobibór, Poland
    Thursday Oct 14, 1943
    The Holocaust

    Jewish prisoners attempted escape

    Sobibór, Poland
    Thursday Oct 14, 1943

    On 14 October, Jewish prisoners in Sobibór attempted an escape, killing 11 SS officers, as well as two or three Ukrainian and Volksdeutsche guards. According to Yitzhak Arad, this was the highest number of SS officers killed in a single revolt.


  • Christmas Island
    Nov, 1943
    Christmas Island

    Over 60% of The Island's Population Was Evacuated

    Christmas Island
    Nov, 1943

    In November 1943, over 60% of the island's population was evacuated to Surabayan prison camps, leaving a total population of just under 500 Chinese and Malays and 15 Japanese to survive as best they could.


  • Changde, China
    Tuesday Nov 2, 1943
    World War II

    Awaiting Allied relief

    Changde, China
    Tuesday Nov 2, 1943

    From November 1943, during the seven-week Battle of Changde, the Chinese forced Japan to fight a costly war of attrition, while awaiting Allied relief. The Japanese capture the city, but later withdraw in January 1944.


  • Poland
    Wednesday Nov 3, 1943
    The Holocaust

    Operation Harvest Festival

    Poland
    Wednesday Nov 3, 1943

    The SS liquidated most of the Jewish ghettos of the General Government area of Poland in 1942–1943 and shipped their populations to the camps for extermination.


  • Poland
    Nov, 1943
    The Holocaust

    Jews died due to carbon monoxide poisoning.

    Poland
    Nov, 1943

    Between March 1942 and November 1943, around 1,526,500 Jews were gassed in these three camps in gas chambers using carbon monoxide from the exhaust fumes of stationary diesel engines.


  • Monte Cassino, Italy
    Nov, 1943
    World War II

    Allies reached Winter Line

    Monte Cassino, Italy
    Nov, 1943

    The Western Allies fought through several lines until reaching the main German defensive line in mid-November.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Monday Nov 22, 1943
    Korean War

    The Cairo Conference

    Cairo, Egypt
    Monday Nov 22, 1943

    At the Cairo Conference in November 1943, China, the United Kingdom and the United States all decided that "in due course Korea shall become free and independent".


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Monday Nov 22, 1943
    Winston Churchill

    Cairo Conference

    Cairo, Egypt
    Monday Nov 22, 1943

    In November, Churchill and Roosevelt met Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at the Cairo Conference (Codename Sextant).


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Tuesday Nov 23, 1943
    World War II

    Cairo Conference

    Cairo, Egypt
    Tuesday Nov 23, 1943

    In November 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met with Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo, from 22 to 26 November.


  • Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
    Nov, 1943
    World War II

    Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign

    Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
    Nov, 1943

    The Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign were a series of battles fought from November 1943 through February 1944, in the Pacific Theater between the United States and Japan. They were the first steps of the drive across the central Pacific by the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps.


  • Tehran, Iran
    Saturday Nov 27, 1943
    Josip Broz Tito

    The Tehran Conference

    Tehran, Iran
    Saturday Nov 27, 1943

    After the Partisans managed to endure and avoid these intense Axis attacks between January and June 1943, and the extent of Chetnik collaboration became evident, Allied leaders switched their support from Draža Mihailović to Tito. King Peter II, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in officially recognising Tito and the Partisans at the Tehran Conference.


  • Tehran, Iran
    Sunday Nov 28, 1943
    Winston Churchill

    Tehran Conference

    Tehran, Iran
    Sunday Nov 28, 1943

    The most important conference of the year was soon afterward (28 November to 1 December) at Tehran (codenamed Eureka), where Churchill and Roosevelt met Stalin in the first of the "Big Three" meetings.


  • Tehran, Iran
    Monday Nov 29, 1943
    World War II

    Tehran Conference

    Tehran, Iran
    Monday Nov 29, 1943

    The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran.


  • London, England
    Dec, 1943
    Computer

    The World's First Electronic Digital Programmable Computer

    London, England
    Dec, 1943

    During World War II, the British at Bletchley Park achieved a number of successes at breaking encrypted German military communications. The German encryption machine, Enigma, was first attacked with the help of the electro-mechanical bombes which were often run by women. To crack the more sophisticated German Lorenz SZ 40/42 machine, used for high-level Army communications, Max Newman and his colleagues commissioned Flowers to build the Colossus. He spent eleven months from early February 1943 designing and building the first Colossus. After a functional test in December 1943, Colossus was shipped to Bletchley Park, where it was delivered on 18 January 1944. Colossus was the world's first electronic digital programmable computer.


  • Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
    Dec, 1943
    Rosa Parks

    Parks became active in the civil rights movement

    Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
    Dec, 1943

    In December 1943, Parks became active in the civil rights movement, joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and was elected secretary at a time when this was considered a woman's job. She later said, "I was the only woman there, and they needed a secretary, and I was too timid to say no." She continued as secretary until 1957.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Saturday Dec 4, 1943
    Winston Churchill

    Second Cairo Conference

    Cairo, Egypt
    Saturday Dec 4, 1943

    Churchill and Roosevelt held a second Cairo conference with Turkish president Ismet Inönü, but were unable to gain any commitment from Turkey to join the Allies.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Dec, 1943
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Dec, 1943

    In December 1943, President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower – not Marshall – would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. The following month, he resumed command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), serving in a dual role until the end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945.


  • Tunis
    Friday Dec 10, 1943
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill went from Cairo to Tunis

    Tunis
    Friday Dec 10, 1943

    Churchill went from Cairo to Tunis, arriving on 10 December, initially as Eisenhower's guest (soon afterward, Eisenhower took over as Supreme Allied Commander of the new SHAEF just being created in London). While Churchill was in Tunis, he became seriously ill with atrial fibrillation and was forced to remain until after Christmas while a succession of specialists was drafted in to ensure his recovery. Clementine and Colville arrived to keep him company; Colville had just returned to Downing Street after more than two years in the RAF.


  • U.S.
    Saturday Dec 11, 1943
    Frank Sinatra

    Military Rejection

    U.S.
    Saturday Dec 11, 1943

    Sinatra did not serve in the military during World War II. On December 11, 1943, he was officially classified 4-F ("Registrant not acceptable for military service") by his draft board because of a perforated eardrum. However, U.S. Army files reported that Sinatra was "not acceptable material from a psychiatric viewpoint", but his emotional instability was hidden to avoid "undue unpleasantness for both the selectee and the induction service".


  • U.S.
    1943
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Back to NAACP

    U.S.
    1943

    Turning down job offers from Fisk and Howard, Du Bois re-joined the NAACP as director of the Department of Special Research. Surprising many NAACP leaders, Du Bois jumped into the job with vigor and determination.


  • London, United Kingdom
    1943
    Queen Elizabeth II

    Elizabeth undertook her first appearance

    London, United Kingdom
    1943

    In 1943, Elizabeth undertook her first solo public appearance on a visit to the Grenadier Guards, of which she had been appointed colonel the previous year.


  • Borgo San Lorenzo, Tuscany, Italy
    Thursday Dec 30, 1943
    Fido (dog)

    Black Day

    Borgo San Lorenzo, Tuscany, Italy
    Thursday Dec 30, 1943

    This was during the Second World War, and on December 30, 1943, Borgo San Lorenzo was subjected to a violent allied bombardment: many factories were hit, and many workers, including Soriani, perished. That evening, Fido showed up as usual at the bus stop, but did not see his beloved master disembark.


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