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  1. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    Gandhi's release

    Friday May 5, 1944India

    Gandhi was released before the end of the war on 6 May 1944 because of his failing health and necessary surgery; the Raj did not want him to die in prison and enrage the nation. He came out of detention to an altered political scene – the Muslim League for example, which a few years earlier had appeared marginal, "now occupied the centre of the political stage".

  2. The Holocaust

    Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz II-Birkenau

    May, 1944Poland

    Between 15 May and 9 July, 437,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, almost all sent directly to the gas chambers.

  3. The Holocaust

    Jews were deported from Hungary

    May, 1944Hungary

    Between 15 May and early July 1944, 437,000 Jews were deported from Hungary, mostly to Auschwitz, where most of them were gassed; there were four transports a day, each carrying 3,000 people.

  4. Josip Broz Tito

    Operation Rösselsprung

    Thursday May 25, 1944Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia)

    On 25 May 1944, he managed to evade the Germans after the Raid on Drvar (Operation Rösselsprung), an airborne assault outside his Drvar headquarters in Bosnia.

  5. Bretton Woods Conference

    The U.S. government invited the Allied countries to send representatives to an international monetary conference

    Thursday May 25, 1944Washington D.C., U.S.

    On May 25, 1944, the U.S. government invited the Allied countries to send representatives to an international monetary conference, "for the purpose of formulating definite proposals for an International Monetary Fund and possibly a Bank for Reconstruction and Development".

  6. World War II

    Battle of Changsha (1944)

    May, 1944Changsha and Hengyang, China

    By June, the Japanese begun a new attack on Changsha in Hunan province. The Battle of Changsha (1944) was a Japanese invasion of the Chinese province of Hunan. The invasion lasted from May to August 1944.

  7. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    Gandhi's release

    Friday May 5, 1944India

    Gandhi was released before the end of the war on 6 May 1944 because of his failing health and necessary surgery; the Raj did not want him to die in prison and enrage the nation. He came out of detention to an altered political scene – the Muslim League for example, which a few years earlier had appeared marginal, "now occupied the centre of the political stage".

  8. The Holocaust

    Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz II-Birkenau

    May, 1944Poland

    Between 15 May and 9 July, 437,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, almost all sent directly to the gas chambers.

  9. The Holocaust

    Jews were deported from Hungary

    May, 1944Hungary

    Between 15 May and early July 1944, 437,000 Jews were deported from Hungary, mostly to Auschwitz, where most of them were gassed; there were four transports a day, each carrying 3,000 people.

  10. Josip Broz Tito

    Operation Rösselsprung

    Thursday May 25, 1944Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia)

    On 25 May 1944, he managed to evade the Germans after the Raid on Drvar (Operation Rösselsprung), an airborne assault outside his Drvar headquarters in Bosnia.

  11. Bretton Woods Conference

    The U.S. government invited the Allied countries to send representatives to an international monetary conference

    Thursday May 25, 1944Washington D.C., U.S.

    On May 25, 1944, the U.S. government invited the Allied countries to send representatives to an international monetary conference, "for the purpose of formulating definite proposals for an International Monetary Fund and possibly a Bank for Reconstruction and Development".

  12. World War II

    Battle of Changsha (1944)

    May, 1944Changsha and Hengyang, China

    By June, the Japanese begun a new attack on Changsha in Hunan province. The Battle of Changsha (1944) was a Japanese invasion of the Chinese province of Hunan. The invasion lasted from May to August 1944.