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  • 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.


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