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GENERAL WERNER VON BLOMBERG WAS NAMED </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>       CHIEF OFGERMAN MILITARY DELEGATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT CONFERNECE AT GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, BY</div> <div> GERMAN CHANCELLOR HEINRICH BRUENING.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 1932               HEINRICH BRUENING, THE CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY, INVOKED</div> <div> ARTICEL #48 OF THE CONSTITUTION AND ISSUED A DECREE</div> <div> BANNING THE S.A. (BROWNSHIRTS) AND S.S. ALL ACROSS GERMANY.</div> <div> THERE WERE OVER 400,000 STORM TROOPERS UNDER THE </div> <div> LEADERSHIP OF S.A. CHIEF ERNST ROHM.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 08, 1932          KURT VON SCHLEICHER, A GERMAN ARMY OFFICER, WHO WANTED</div> <div> TO BE CHANCELLOR, HELD A SECRET MEETING WITH HITLER AND</div> <div> PROPOSED THE BAN ON THE S.A. AND S. S. LIFTED, THE REICHSTAG                         DISSOLVED, NEW ELECTIONS TO BE HELD IN JULY , AND CHANCELLOR</div> <div> BURENING BE REMOVED, IF HITLER WOULD SUPPORT A CONSERATIVE</div> <div> NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT.  HITLER AGREED.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 13, 1932          GENERAL WILHELM GROENER, A TRUSTED AID TO PRESIDENT </div> <div> HINDENBURG AND FRIEND OF THE GERMAN REPUBLIC WAS</div> <div> PRESSURED TO RESIGN. KURT VON SCHLEICHER'S NEXT TARGET </div> <div> WAS CHANCELLOR HEINRICH BRUENING.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 29, 1932          GERMAN PRESIDENT HINDENBERG CALLED IN CHANCELLOR</div> <div> BRUENING AND TOLD HIM TO RESIGN, FOR THE POLITICAL</div> <div> TURMOIL THAT MADE IT NECESSARY TO RUN FOR RE-ELECTION</div> <div> AT AGE 85 AGAINST HITLER.  WITH HIS RESIGNATION, EFFECTIVELY</div> <div> ENDING DEMOCARCY IN GERMANY. WITH SCHLEICHER NOW IN</div> <div> CONTROL, HE CHOSE HIS PUPPET CHANCELLOR FRANZ VON PAPEN, </div> <div> WHOM HINDENBERG LIKED AND ENCOURGED HIM TO TAKE THE</div> <div> JOB. </div> <bR> <div> JUNE 04, 1932          THE REICHSTAG WAS DISSOLVED.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 15, 1932          THE BAN ON THE S.A. AND THE S.S. WAS LIFTED.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 2 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1932</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JULY 17, 1932          THE NAZI'S UNDER POLICE ESCORT MARCHED INTO A COMMUNIST</div> <div> AREA NEAR HAMBURG, IN THE STATE OF PRUSSIA. A BIG SHOOT</div> <div> OUT OCCURRED AND 19 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND NEARLY 300</div> <div> WERE WOUNDED, IT CAME TO BE KNOWN AS "BLOODY SUNDAY".</div> <div> PAPEN INVOKED ARTICLE #48 AND PROCLAIMED MARTIAL LAW</div> <div> IN BERLIN AND ALSO TOOK OVER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE</div> <div> GERMAN STATE OF PRUSSIA BY NAMING HIMSELF REICH</div> <div> COMMISSIONER. HITLER DECIDED THAT PAPEN WAS IN THE</div> <div> WAY AND HAD TO GO.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 31, 1932          THE GERMAN PEOPLE VOTED AND GAVE THE NAZI PARTY</div> <div> 13,745,000 VOTES, 37% OF THE TOTAL, GRANTING THEM 230</div> <div> SEATS IN THE REICHSTAG. THE NAZI PARTY WAS NOW THE</div> <div> LARGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 05, 1932          HITLER PRESENTED HIS LIST OF DEMANDS TO SCHLEICHER - </div> <div> (1) THE CHANCELLORSHIP, (2) PASSAGE OF AN ENABLING ACT</div> <div> GIVING HIM CONTROL TO RULE BY DECREE, (3) THREE CABINET</div> <div> POSTS FOR NAZIS, (4) THE CREATION OF A PROPAGANDA</div> <div> MINISTRY, (5) CONTROL OVER THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR, </div> <div> AND (6) CONTROL OF PRUSSIA. AS FOR SCHLEICHER, HE WOULD</div> <div> GET THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AS A REWARD. SCHLEICHER</div> <div> WOULD LET HITLER KNOW LATER OF THE DEMANDS.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 13, 1932          SCHLEICHER AND PAPEN MET WITH HITLER AND GAVE HIM THE</div> <div> NEWS.  HINDENBERG DISTRUSTED HIM AND WOULD NOT HAVE </div> <div> HITLER AS CHANCELLOR.. A COMPROMISE WAS OFFERED TO HITLER -</div> <div> VICE CHANCELLOR AND THE PRUSSIAN MINISTRY OF INTERIOR. </div> <div> HITLER BECAME HYSTERICAL AND IN A WILD RAGE SPEWED</div> <div> OUT THREATS OF VIOLENCE AND MURDER. HINDENBERG CALLED</div> <div> HILTER FOR AN AUDIENCE AND HE RECEIVED A TONGUE LASHING</div> <div> FOR REFUSING TO COOPERATE WITH PAPEN AND SCHLEICHER.</div> <div> HITLER BACKED DOWN AND HIS GAMBLE HAD FAILED.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 12, 1932          THE REICHSTAG UNDER THE NEW CHAIRMANSHIP OF HERMANN</div> <div> GORING GAVE A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE TO PAPEN AND HIS</div> <div> GOVERNMENT. PAPEN ORDERED THE REICHSTAG DISSOLVED</div> <div> AND CALLED FOR NEW ELECTIONS. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 3 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1932</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> NOV. 06, 1932          WITH THE ELECTIONS, THE NAZIS LOST 2,000,000 VOTES AND 34</div> <div> SEATS IN THE REICHSTAG, DUE TO BAD PUBLICITY FROM</div> <div> SIDING WITH THE COMMUNISTS DURING A WILDCAT STRIKE</div> <div> OF TRANSPORT WORKERS IN BERLIN AND THE MEETING HITLER </div> <div> HAD WITH HIDENBERG COMBINED TO LOSE THEM VOTES. HITLER</div> <div> BECAME DEPRESSED.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 08, 1932          FRANKLIN  ROOSEVELT IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED</div> <div> STATES BEATING HIS OPPONENT HERBERT HOOVER.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 17, 1932          WITH NO WORKABLE GOVERNMENT IN BERLIN PAPEN'S POSITION </div> <div> AS CHANCELLOR WAS BADLY WEAKENDED. PAPEN WENT TO</div> <div> HINDENBERG AND TOLD HIM HE WAS UNABLE TO FORM ANY</div> <div> KIND OF WORKING COALITION AND RESIGNED.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 19, 1932          HITLER REQUESTED A MEETING WITH HINDENBERG. HE</div> <div> DEMANDED TO BE MADE CHANCELLOR AND HE WAS AGAIN</div> <div> TURNED DOWN.  HE ASKED HITLER TO MEET HIM HALF WAY TO</div> <div> COOPERATE WITH OTHER PARTIES AND FORM A COALITION</div> <div> GOVERNMENT. HITLER REFUSED.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 21, 1932          HITLER MET WITH HINDENBERG AGAIN  AND CLAIMED THAT </div> <div> PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT HAD FAILED AND THAT ONLY </div> <div> THE NAZI PARTY COULD BE COUNTED ON TO STOP THE SPREAD</div> <div> OF COMMUNISM. HE ASKED HINDENBERG TO MAKE HIM LEADER</div> <div> OF A PRESIDENTIAL CABINET. HINDENBERG SAID NO. </div> <bR> <div> LATE NOVEMBER 1932     HINDENBERG CALLED IN PAPEN AND SCHLEICHER AND ASKED</div> <div> THEM FOR ADVICE. PAPEN ASKED TO BE CHANCELLOR AGAIN</div> <div> AND RULE BY DECREE,  ELIMINATE THE REICHSTAG, USE THE </div> <div> ARMY AND POLICE TO SUPRESS ALL POLITICAL PARTIES, AND</div> <div> FORCIBLY AMEND THE CONSTITUTION.  HINDENBERG ASKED </div> <div> PAPEN TO GO AHEAD AND FORM HIS GOVERNMENT.</div> <div> WITH SCHLEICHER BEHIND THE SCENES, HE SWAYED THE ARMY  </div> <div> TO HIS POINT OF VIEW. PAPEN WAS IN TROUBLE. SCHLEICHER</div> <div> WENT TO HINDENBERG. HINDENBERG TOLD PAPEN THERE WAS </div> <div> NO ALTERNATIVE AT THIS POINT EXCEPT TO NAME SCHLEICHER</div> <div> AS THE NEW CHANCELLOR.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 4 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1932</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DEC. 02, 1932          KURT VON SCHLEICHER BECAME CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY.</div> <div> THERE NOW BEGAN AN INCREDIABLE AMOUNT OF POLITICAL </div> <div> INTRIGUE AND BACKSTABBING THAT WOULD PUT HITLER IN</div> <div> POWER IN ONLY 57 DAYS. SCHLEICHER BEGAN TO TRY AND</div> <div> SPLIT THE NAZI PARTY.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 05, 1932          HILTER MET WITH STRASSER AND OTHER NAZI LEADERS IN A </div> <div> HOTEL IN BERLIN.   PAPEN HAD TOLD HITLER WHAT SCHLEICHER </div> <div> WAS UP TO, INCLUDING THE SECRET MEETINGS WITH GREGOR</div> <div> STRASSER, WHO HAD BEEN WITH HITLER FROM THE START, </div> <div> SCHLEICHER HAD OFFERED STRASSER THE VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP</div> <div> AND CONTROL OF PRUSSIA. HITLER, GORING, AND GEOBBELS</div> <div> OPPOSED STRASSER. </div> <bR> <div> DEC. 07, 1932          STRASSER AND HITLER MET AGAIN. STRASSER ACCUSED HITLER</div> <div> OF LEADING THE NAZI PARTY TO RUIN AND HITLER ACCUSED HIM</div> <div> OF STABBING HIM IN THE BACK.  STRASSER RESIGNED ALL OF HIS</div> <div> DUTIES AS A MEMBER OF THE NAZI PARTY.  </div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                      </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 5 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1933</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div>   - ? - 1933               THE RUSSIAN UKRAINE FAMINE ENDED WITH MILLIONS OF</div> <div> RUSSIANS DYING. </div> <bR> <div> JAN. 04, 1933               PAPEN MET WITH HITLER AND OFFERED TO BRING DOWN</div> <div> SCHLEICHER AND INSTALL A PAPEN-HITLER GOVERNMENT</div> <div> WITH HIMSELF AND HITLER AS EQUAL LEADERS. HITLER LIKED</div> <div> THE IDEA OF OUSTING SCHELICHER BUT INSISTED THAT HE </div> <div> WOULD BE THE REAL LEADER OF THE GOVERNMENT. PAPEN</div> <div> GAVE IN AND AGREED.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 07, 1933               SCHLEICHER FOUND OUT THAT PAPEN WAS AIDING HITLER AND</div> <div> WENT TO HINDENBERG, CALLING PAPEN A TRAITOR. HINDENBERG</div> <div> DID NOTHING, HE STILL LIKED PAPEN.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 15, 1933               IN THE GERMAN STATE OF LIPPE, LOCAL ELECTIONS WERE</div> <div> SCHEDULED. HITLER TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A</div> <div> BIG IMPRESSION AND RECEIVED A SMALL INCREASE IN VOTES.</div> <div> THIS IMPRESSED HINDENBERG.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 22, 1933               HITLER HAD A SECRET MEETING AT THE HOME OF JOACHIM VON</div> <div> RIBBENTROP. IT WAS ATTENDED BY PAPEN, GORING, AND </div> <div> HIDENBERG'S SON OSKAR. HITLER CONVINCED OSKAR IT WAS</div> <div> INEVITABLE THAT THE NAZIS HAD TO BE TAKEN INTO THE</div> <div> GOVERNMENT ON HITLER'S TERMS. OSKAR HINDENBERG AGREED.</div> <div> PAPEN THEN PLEDGED HIS LOYALTY TO HITLER.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 28, 1933               SCHLEICHER WENT HINDENBER AND ASKED HIM TO ONCE AGAIN</div> <div> DISSOLVE THE REICHSTAG. HINDENBERG SAID NO AND SCHLEICHER</div> <div> RESIGNED. NOW PAPEN AND OSKAR TIRED TO CONVIENCE HIM TO</div> <div> APPOINT A PAPEN- HITLER GOVERNMENT. HE WAS STILL UNDECIDED.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 29, 1932               A FALSE RUMOR CIRCULATED THAT SCHLEICHER WAS ABOUT TO</div> <div> ARREST HINDENBERG AND STAGE A MILITARY TAKEOVER OF THE</div> <div> GOVERNMENT. WHEN HINDENBERG FOUND OUT, HE DECIDED TO</div> <div> APPOINT HITLER AS THE NEXT CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY.</div> <div> BLOMBERG WAS ORDERED FROM SWITZERLAND BACK TO BERLIN</div> <div> TO AVERT AN ARMY TAKEOVER.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 30, 1933               ADOLF HITLER IS APPOINTED CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY, A</div> <div> NATION WITH A JEWISH POPULATION OF 566,000. HE SEEKS</div> <div> REVISIONISM OF THE VERSAILLES TREATY.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II </div> <div> - 6 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1933</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <div> FEBRUARY 1933             *     A RECEPTION CAMP (AUFFANGLAGER) WAS ESTABLISHED FOR</div> <div> FOR THE INCARCERATION, INTERROGATION, AND TORTURING</div> <div> OF HITLER'S POLITICAL OPPONENTS, MOSTLY COMMUNIST AND </div> <div> SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. JEWS WOULD COME LATER.</div> <div>         *     GENERAL BLOMBERG ACCEPTS AN APPOINTMENT BY HINDENBERG</div> <div> IN HITLER'S FIRST CABINET AS DEFENSE MINISTER.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 15,1933               AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS SHOT AT IN AN</div> <div> ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT BY GUISEPPE ZANGARA IN</div> <div> MIAMI, FLA.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 22, 1933               40,000 SA (STORM TROOPERS) AND SS (GESTAPO) GERMANS ARE</div> <div> SWORN IN AS AUXILIARY POLICE.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 27, 1933               THE NAZI'S BURN THE REICHSTAG (GOVERNMENT BUILDING) TO</div> <div> CREATE A CRISIS ATMOSPHERE.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 28, 1933               EMERGENCY POWERS ARE GRANTED TO HITLER AS A RESULT OF</div> <div> REICHSTAG BEING BURNED.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 04, 1933          FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT IS INAUGURATED PRESIDENT OF THE</div> <div> UNITED STATES.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 12, 1933          THE FIRST CONCENTRATION (HOLDING CENTER) CAMP OPENED AT</div> <div> ORANIENBURG, GERMAN, OUTSIDE OF BERLIN.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 20, 1933           DACHAU CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR) CAMP IS OPENED NEAR</div> <div> MUNICH, GERMANY, FOR POLITICAL OPPONENTS OF NAZI GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 23, 1933           GERMAN PARLIAMENT PASSES THE ENABLING ACT GIVING HITLER</div> <div> DICTATORIAL POWERS.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 01, 1933          IN ONE OF HIS FIRST MOVES AGAINST THE JEWS AFTER GAINING</div> <div> POWER, HITLER SPONSORED A NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT OF JEWISH </div> <div> SHOPS AND BUSINESSES.  THE BOYCOTT WAS LIMITED TO ONE </div> <div> DAY, BUT THE GERMAN MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA, JOSEPH </div> <div> GOBBELS SAID "IF THE BOYCOTT MUST BE RESUMED WE WILL </div> <div> CRUSH GERMANY JEWRY."  </div> <bR> <div> APRIL 07, 1933          GERMAN LAW EXCLUDES "NON-ARYAN" FROM GOVERNMENT</div> <div> EMPLOYMENT. JEWISH CIVIL SERVANTS, UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS,</div> <div> AND SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE FIRED IN NAZI GERMANY.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II </div> <div> - 7 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1933</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <div> APRIL 11, 1933          HITLER ISSUES A DECREE DEFINING A NON-ARYAN AS "ANYONE</div> <div> DESCENDED FROM NON-ARYAN, ESPICALLY JEWISH ANCESTORS".</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 21, 1933          A POSSIBLE PLAN TO MURDER HILTER WAS MADE BY AMERICAN </div> <div> (NEW YORK) JEWS AND WAS REPORTED TO THE GERMAN EMBASSY </div> <div> IN WASHINGTON, D.C., THEY NOTIFIED THE AMERICAN F.B.I. TO</div> <div> HAVE IT STOPPED. </div> <bR> <div> APRIL 26, 1933          HERMANN GORING CREATES THE GESTAPO (POLICE) IN THE </div> <div> GERMAN STATE OF PRUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 10, 1933          BURNING OF BOOKS BY JEWS AND OTHER POLITICAL OPPONENTS</div> <div> IN BERLIN AND THROUGHOUT GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 1933               NAZI GERMANY OPENS CONCENTRATION CAMPS AT: DACHAU </div> <div> NEAR MUNICH, BUCHENWALD NEAR WEIMAR, SACHSENHAUSEN </div> <div> NEAR BERLIN, AND RAVENSBRUCK FOR WOMEN.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 10, 1933          ADOLF HITLER FLEW TO PRUSSIA TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT </div> <div> PAUL VON HINDENBURG OVER CONCERNS ABOUT A NEW </div> <div> HITLER CABINET.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 14, 1933             *     THE NAZI PARTY IS DECLARED THE ONLY LEGAL PARTY IN GERMANY.</div> <div>                                *     HITLER PASSES A LAW ALLOWING FOR FORCED STERILZATION OF </div> <div> THOSE FOUND BY THE HEREDITARY HEALTH COURT TO HAVE</div> <div> GENETIC DEFECTS - MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED.</div> <div>         *     HITLER PASSES A LAW TO STRIP JEWISH IMMIGRANTS FROM POLAND</div> <div> OF THEIR GERMAN CITZENSHIP.</div> <bR> <div> SEPTEMBER 1933          NAZI GERMANY ESTABLISHED REICH CHAMBER OF CULTURE.</div> <div> ALL JEWS ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE ARTS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 27, 1933          THE REICHSTAG IS GUTTED BY FIRE. THE NAZIS BLAME THE</div> <div> COMMUNISTS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 29, 1933          HITLER PASSES A LAW PROHIBITING JEWS FROM OWNING LAND.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 04, 1933          HITLER PASSES A LAW PROHIBITING JEWS FROM BEING NEWSPAPER</div> <div> EDITORS.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 14, 1933          GERMANY QUITS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II </div> <div> - 8 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1933</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <div> NOV. 24, 1933          HITLER PASSES A LAW AGAINST HABITUAL AND DANGEROUS</div> <div> CRIMINALS, WHICH ALLOWS BEGGERS, HOMELESS, ALCOHOLICS,</div> <div> AND THE UNEMPLOYED TO BE SENT TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS.</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                 </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 9 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1934</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div>   -  ? -   1934               KING ALEXANDER OF YUGOSLAVIA WAS ASSASSINATED BY</div> <div> A GROUP OF ARMY OFFICERS. KING PETER II SUCCEEDED HIM,</div> <div> WHO WILL RULE UNDER A REGENCY UNTIL 1941.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 24, 1934               JEWS ARE BANNED FROM THE GERMAN LABOR FRONT.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 26, 1934               GERMANY AND POLAND SIGN A 10 YEAR NON-AGGRESSION PACT.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 17, 1934          JEWS ARE NOT ALLOWED NATIONAL HEATH INSURANCE.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 17, 1934          NICE CHANCELLOR FRANC VON PAPEN DENOUNCES NAZI STRICT</div> <div> PRESS CENSORSHIP.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 21, 1934          HITLER VISITS GERMANY'S CHANCELLOR PAUL VON HINDENBURG.</div> <div> HE TELLS HITLER THE SA PROBLEM MUST BE SOLVED OR HE IS</div> <div> DECLARING MARTIAL LAW, WHICH WOULD END THE NAZI REIGN.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 30, 1934          THE "NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES". HITLER, GORING, AND HIMMLER</div> <div> CONDUCT A PURGE OF THE SA (STORM TROOPER) LEADERSHIP AND</div> <div> POLITICAL ENEMIES KNOWN AS "THE REICH LIST OF UNWANTED</div> <div> ENEMIES". SA LEADER ERNST ROHM, BERLIN SA LEADER KARL ERNST,</div> <div> GUSTAV VON KAHR - WHO OPPOSED HITLER DURING THE BEER HALL</div> <div> PUTSCH OF 1923, FATHER BERNARD STEMPFLE - WHO HAD TAKEN</div> <div> SOME OF THE DICTATION FOR HITLER'S BOOK :MEIN KAMPF", KURT</div> <div> VON SCHLEICHER - FORMER CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY WHO PUT</div> <div> HITLER IN POWER, GREGOR STRASSER - NAZI PARTY MEMBER WHO </div> <div> IS NEXT IN IMPORTANCE TO HITLER, VICE CHANCELLOR PAPEN'S</div> <div> PRESS SECRETARY, AND DR. ERICH KLAUSENER - GERMANY'S</div> <div> CATHOLIC LEADER WERE AMONG THE KILLED IN THE PURGE BY</div> <div> HIMMLER'S SS AND GOERING'S POLICE.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 02, 1934          THE PURGE ENDED WITH OVER 1,000 PEOPLE KILLED. ONLY HALF</div> <div> WERE SA LEADERS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 22, 1934          JEWS ARE PROHIBITED FROM GETTING LEGAL QUALIFICATIONS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 25, 1934          UNSUCCESSFUL PRO-NAZI REVOLT TAKES PLACE IN AUSTRIA.</div> <div> THE NAZI'S MURDER AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR DOLLFUSS.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 02, 1934          GERMAN PRESIDENT HINDENBURG DIES.  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 10 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1934</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> AUG. 19, 1934          HITLER BECOMES THE FUHRER (THE LEADER) OF GERMANY.</div> <div> HITLER COMBINES THE OFFICES OF CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT</div> <div> INTO ONE OFFICE.</div> <div>                                        HITLER STRIPS THE REICHSTAG OF ALL POWER, GOT RID OF ALL</div> <div> POLITICAL PARTIES EXPECT THE NAZIS, OUTLAWED TRADE UNIONS,</div> <div> GOT RID OF LAWS HE DID NOT LIKE, AND SET UP LABOR CAMPS.</div> <div>                             HITLER RECEIVES A 90 % APPROVAL RATING FROM THE GERMANS</div> <div> APPROVING HIS NEW POWERS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 26, 1934          ENGLAND'S QUEEN, HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY LAUNCHES ONE </div> <div> OF THE LAST GREAT ATLANTIC OCEAN LINERS - THE QUEEN MARY.  SHE GAVE HER NAME TO THE LINER, KNOWN THEN ONLY AS </div> <div> "JOB NUMBER #534".</div> <bR> <div> OCTOBER 1934          FIRST WAVE OF ARRESTS OF HOMOSEXUALS OCCURS THROUGH-</div> <div> OUT GERMANY, CONTINUING INTO NOVEMBER 1934.</div> <bR> <div> NOVEMBER 1944          JOSEF KORBEL JOINED THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN FOREIGN</div> <div> SERVICE.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 05, 1934          THE FIRST CLASH BETWEEN ITALIAN TROOPS AND ETHIOPIAN </div> <div> TROOPS AT UALVAL.</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                              </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 11 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1935</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div>      ?      1935                  *     MARTHA DODD, DAUGHTER OF THE UNITED STATED AMBASSADOR</div> <div> TO NAZI GERMANY, WAS ALSO AN ARDENT SERVANT OF THE</div> <div> RUSSIAN SECRET POLICE.  HER FATHER DESPISED THE NAZIS.</div> <div> SHE BETRAYED HER FATHER AND COUNTRY BY SUPPLYING</div> <div> STALIN'S RUSSIAN SPIES WITH THE MOST SECRET BERLIN-</div> <div> WASHINGTON CABLES BETWEEN HER FATHER, PRESIDENT</div> <div> ROOSEVELT, AND OTHER AMERICAN OFFICALS.</div> <div> *     NAZI SS CHIEF HEINRICH HIMMLER BEGAN THE "LEBENSBORN"</div> <div>      (FOUNTAIN OF LIFE) A 10 YEAR CAMPAIGN, AS A BULWARK</div> <div> AGAINST A FUTURE DOMINATED BY WHAT THE NAZIS VIEWED </div> <div> AS "INFERIOR RACES". WOMEN WHO HAD THE DESIRABLE </div> <div> PHYSICAL QUALITIES OF BLOND HAR AND BLUE EYES, WERE </div> <div> URGED TO HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH TALL, FIT OFFICERS </div> <div> OF ADOLF HITLER'S ELITE SS TROOPS, TO PRODUCE AN ARYAN</div> <div> ELITE MASTER RACE FOR THE FUEHRER.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 05, 1935               ETHIOPIA'S LEADER, HAILIE SELASSIE APPEALS TO THE</div> <div> LEAGUE OF NATIONS FOR ITALY'S ACT OF AGGRESSION.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 07, 1935                   *     AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WAS VOTED AS "MAN </div> <div> OF THE YEAR" FOR 1934.</div> <div>         *     FRENCH PRIME MINISTER PIERRE LAVAL AMDE AN AGREEMENT </div> <div> WITH ITALIAN DICTATOR MUSSOLINI, WHICH GIVES HIM ETHIOPIA. </div> <bR> <div> FEB. 23, 1935               ITALY SENDS LARGER FORCES TO ETHIOPIA.</div> <bR> <div> MARCH 1935               THE CONCENTRATION CAMP AT ORANIEBURG, GERMANY IS</div> <div> LIQUIDATED BY THE GERMANS.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 16, 1935          GERMANY'S DICTATOR, ADOLF HITLER, ANNOUNCES THAT HE IS </div> <div> RE-ARMING GERMANY, WHICH IS AGAINST THE VERSAILLES                               TREATY. HE RESTORES THE DRAFT.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 1935               BEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ARE BANNED FROM ALL CIVIL SERVICE</div> <div> JOBS AND ARE ARRESTED THROUGHOUT GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 1935               SPAIN'S FRANCO AND RUSSIA'S STALIN MADE AN ALLIANCE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 02, 1935          FRANCE AND RUSSIA SIGN A 5 YEAR MUTUAL ASSISTANCE TREATY.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 21, 1935          HITLER PASSES A LAW BANNING JEWS FROM SERVING IN THE</div> <div> GERMAN MILITARY.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 12 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1935</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JUNE 18, 1935          BRITIAN ALLOWS GERMAN'S NAVY TO GROW TO ONLY 35 % OF</div> <div> THAT OF THE BRITISH NAVY'S SIZE.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 23, 1935          MR. ANTHONY EDEN, BRITIAN'S MINISTER FOR LEAGUE AFFAIRS</div> <div> TRIES TO NEGOTIATE WITH MUSSOLINI, BUT FAILS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 26, 1935          HITLER PASSES A LAW ALLOWING FORCED ABORTIONS ON</div> <div> JEWISH WOMEN TO PREVENT THEM FROM PASSING ON HEREDITARY</div> <div> DISEASES.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 06, 1935          NAZI GERMANY FORCES JEWISH PERFORMERS TO JOIN JEWISH</div> <div> CULTURAL UNIONS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 08, 1935          LOUISIANA GOVERNOR HUEY P. LONG WAS SHOT AND MORTALLY</div> <div> WOUNDED BY AN ASSASSIN AT THE STATE CAPITAL BUILDING IN</div> <div> BATON ROUGE.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 10, 1935          LOUISIANA GOVERNOR HUEY P. LONG DIED FOR HIS WOUNDS.</div> <div> HIS NICKNAME WAS "THE KINGFISH".</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 15,  1935          HITLER PASSED THE INFAMOUS NUREMBERG RACE LAWS, WHICH</div> <div> TOOK CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS AWAY FROM THE JEWS (WHOM HE HATED</div> <div> AND BLAMED FOR THE RUINATION OF GERMANY), PLACE THE JEWS</div> <div> INTO CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AND TOTALLY ELIMINATE ALL JEWS</div> <div> FROM THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> OCT.03, 1935                  *  ITALY'S DICTATOR, BENITO MUSSOLINI HAS HIS TROOPS INVADES                          ETHIOPIA LED BY GENERAL BADOGLIO.</div> <div>         *     GERMANY SUPPORTS ITALY'S INVASION OF ETHIOPIA.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 05, 1935          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT INVOKES THE TRADE ACT IN THE</div> <div> ETHIOPIAN CONFLICT. URGES "MORAL EMBARGO" ON ALL</div> <div> TRADE WITH ITALY, BUT THE UNITED STATES EXPORTS TO</div> <div> ITALY INCREASE.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 07, 1935          LEAGUE OF NATIONS CONDEMNED ITALY FOR ITS ACTIONS AND</div> <div> CALLED FOR ECONOMIC REPRISALS AGAINST ITALY.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 18, 1935          THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS SANCTIONS BEGI WITH ARMS EMBARGO,</div> <div> FINANCIAL EMBARGO, AND NONIMPORTATION OF ITALIAN GOODS.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 13 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1935</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DECEMBER 1935             *     BRITIAN CONCENTRATES ITS NAVY AT ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT.</div> <div> IT IS STILL POORLY PREPARED.</div> <div>         *     BRITIAN ALLOWS ITALY TO USE THE SUEZ CANAL.</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                       </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 14 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1936</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div>     ?     1936                  *     THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS MADE LAW THE HELIUM CONTROL</div> <div> ACT TO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR NAZI GERMANY TO OBTAIN</div> <div> HELIUM FOR THEIR NEW ZEPPELIN AIRSHIPS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT</div> <div> BECAME UNEASY OF HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY. GERMANY'S </div> <div> NEW AIRSHIP "THE HINDENBURG" WAS FILLED WITH HYDROGEN, </div> <div> A VOLATILE GAS, INSTEAD OF HELIUM.</div> <div>         *     MILLIONS OF RUSSIANS WOULD DIE FROM THE "GREAT TERROR" </div> <div> OF 1936. IT ENDED IN 1938.</div> <bR> <div> FEBRUARY 1936          THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS CAN NOT AGREE ON OIL SANCTIONS</div> <div> DUE TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT REFUSED. THE UNITED STATES</div> <div> CONTROLLS 50 % OF THE WORLD'S OIL TRADE.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 10, 1936               THE GERMAN GESTAPO (POLICE) IS PLACED ABOVE THE LAW.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 16, 1936               SPAIN'S SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES WON A NARROW VICTORY</div> <div> IN THE ELECTIONS.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 29, 1936               PRESIDENT ROOSVELT SIGNS THE THOMAS BILL - THE 1936</div> <div> NEUTRALITY ACT: WHICH INCLUDE ARMS EMBARGO WITH </div> <div> BELLIGERENT NATIONS ENTERING A WAR IN PROGRESS, </div> <div> TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS, AND MANDATORY BAN ON LOANS TO</div> <div> BELLIGERENT NATIONS. </div> <bR> <div> MARCH 1936               THE GERMAN SS "DEATHSHEAD DIVISION" IS ESTABLISHED TO</div> <div> GUARD THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 07, 1936          HITLER HAS GERMAN TROOPS MARCH INTO AND OCCUPY THE</div> <div> RHINELAND. HITLER USES THE EXCUSE FOR THIS ACTION</div> <div> DUE TO FRANCE'S REACTION TO GERMANY'S REARMAMENT</div> <div> AND TO NEGOTIATE AN ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA. HITLER</div> <div> ANNOUNCED THE AGREEMENT AS A VIOLATION OF THE LOCARNO</div> <div> TREATY. </div> <bR> <div> APR. 20, 1936               HITLER AWARDED GENERAL WERNER VON BLOMBERG A FIELD</div> <div> MARSHALL'S BATON, MAKING HIM THE MOST POWERFUL</div> <div> PEACETIME COMMANDER IN THE GERMAN MILITARY HISTORY.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 23, 1936          BALTIMORE, MD. WAS VISITED BY THE GOODWILL AMBASSADOR</div> <div> OF THE GERMAN THIRD REICH - THE GERMAN CRUISER "EMDEN".</div> <div> HER CREW AND COMMANDER KARL DONITZ VISITED FORT</div> <div> McHENRY AS TOURISTS.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 15 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1936</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAY 05, 1936          MUSSOLINI'S ITALIAN FORCES OCCUPY ADDIS ABABA, CAPITAL</div> <div> OF ETHIPOIA. ETHIOPIA IS CONQUERED.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 06, 1936          GERMANY'S AIRSHIP HINDENBURG EXPLODED, CRAHSED, AND</div> <div> BURNED AT THE UNITED STATES AIRFIELD AT LAKEHURST, N.J.</div> <div> IT WAS COMPLETING ITS FIRST MADIEN ATLANTIC OCEAN </div> <div> CROSSING.  36 PEOPLE DIED. </div> <bR> <div> MAY 09, 1936          ITALY ANNEXES ALL OF ETHIOPIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 15, 1936             *     HENRY LUCE'S MARCH OF TIME FILM "GENEVA" IS CRITICAL</div> <div> OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.</div> <div>         *  HAILIE SALASSIE FLEES HIS COUNTRY FOR BRITIAN, AS ITALY</div> <div>                      ANNEXED ETHIOPIA.  WITH THIS ACT, ENGLAND PREPARES TO </div> <div> REARM.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 17, 1936          SS GENERAL HEINRICH HIMMLER IS APPOINTED CHIEF OF THE </div> <div> GESTAPO (POLICE). HE BECOMES REICHSFUHRER OF THE SS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 1936               THE SACHSENHAUSEN CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR) CAMP,</div> <div> NORTH OF BERLIN, GERMANY, IS OPENED. </div> <bR> <div> JULY 04, 1936          THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS VOTE TO DISCONTINUE SANCTIONS.  </div> <div> THE LEAGUE IS DEAD.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 12, 1936          THE FIRST GERMAN GYPSIES ARE ARRESTED AND DEPORTED TO</div> <div> DACHAU CONCENTRATIONCAMP.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 17 - 18, 1936             *     THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR BEGINS. GENERAL FRANCISCO FRANCO</div> <div> AND ARMY JOINED BECOME "NATIONALISTS",  FIGHTING SPAIN'S</div> <div> "REPUBLICAN" GOVERNMENT FORCES.</div> <div>         *     FRANCE IS PRO-REPUBLICAN BUT UNABLE TO COMMIT AID,</div> <div> INSTEAD JOINED BRITIAN AS NETURAL.</div> <div>         *     RUSSIAN'S LEADER STALIN SENDS ARMS AND PILOTS.</div> <div>                     *     INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES FROM BRITIAN, FRANCE, ITALY,</div> <div> GERMANY, AND UNITED STATES (ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE),</div> <div> AS FOERIGN POWERS INTERVENE AND JOIN SIDES.</div> <div> GERMANY AND ITALY SENDS TROOPS AND EQUIPMENT TO AID</div> <div> FRANCISCO FRANCO'S REBELS.  THEY USE SPAIN AS A TESTING                          GROUND FOR WAR TACTICS.</div> <bR> <div> AUGUST 1936          GERMANY SETS UP AN OFFICE FOR COMBATING HOMOSEXUALITY</div> <div> AND ABORTIONS (BY HEALTHY WOMEN).</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 16 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1936</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> AUG. 01 - 16, 1936          THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES BEGIN IN BERLIN, GERMANY. </div> <div> HITLER WANTS TO SHOW THE WOLRD THE ARYAN RACE AS </div> <div> MASTERS. AMERICAN BLACK ATHLETE, JESSE OWENS WINS 4 </div> <div> GOLD MEDALS IN TRACK AND ANGERS HITLER BY BEATING THE</div> <div> "MASTER RACE". ALSO HITLER IS ANGERED BY AMERICAN</div> <div> DIVER MARSHALL WAYNE BY HIS WINNING OF 1 GOLD MEDAL</div> <div> IN PLATFORM DIVING AND A SILVER MEDAL IN THE 3 METER</div> <div> SPRINGBOARD DIVING.</div> <div> ANTI-JEWISH SIGNS ARE REMOVED UNITL THE GAMES ARE OVER.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 08, 1936          THE GERMAN AIRSHIP "HINDENBERG" FLEW OVER BALTIMORE, MD.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 24, 1936          80 CHILDREN WERE HIDING IN A CHURCH IN THE VILLAGE OF</div> <div> BUITRAGO, SPAIN. THEY WERE DRAGGED OUT, LINED UP, AND</div> <div> SHOT AND KILLED BY FIRING SQUADS. SO FAR 25,000 SPANIARDS</div> <div> HAVE DIED IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, ONLY IN ITS 2ND MONTH.</div> <bR> <div> OCTOBER 1936           PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SOUGHT UNITY AND PROPOSED A</div> <div> BUENOS AIRES CONFERENCE FOR DECEMBER 1936.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 01, 1936          FRANCO IS DECLARED THE HEAD OF SPANISH STATE.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 25, 1936          GERMANY AND ITALY SINGED A COMMERCIAL AND FOREIGN</div> <div> POLICY AGREEMENT CALLED THE ROME-BERLIN AXIS PACT.</div> <bR> <div> NOVEMBER 1936             *     SPAIN'S REPUBLICAN FORCES IN DEFENSIVE POSITIONS AROUND</div> <div> THE CITIES OF MADRIA, VALENCIA, AND BARCELONA.</div> <div>         *     RUSSIA'S STALIN SENDS TANKS AND PLANES TO AID THE CITIES.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 25, 1936          GERMANY AND JAPAN SIGN THE ANTI-COMINTERN PACT.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 21, 1936          ENGLAND'S KING EDWARD VIII, SOON TO BE PRINCE EDWARD,</div> <div> ABDUCATED THE THRONE OF ENGLAND TO MARRY A COMMONER,</div> <div> AN AMERICAN WOMAN.</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                  </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 17 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1937</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <div> -  ?  -     1937                  *     THE U.S. AMERICAN CONGRESS PASSES THE NEUTRALITY ACT.</div> <div>         *     ITALY AND JAPAN SIGN THE ANTI-COMINTERN ACT.</div> <div>         *     ITALIAN ANTI-FASCIST FORCES DEFEAT MUSSOLINI'S FACIST</div> <div> FORCES AT GUADALAJARA, SPAIN.</div> <bR> <div> JANUARY 1937          JEWS ARE BANNED FROM PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS, DENIED</div> <div> TAX REDUCTIONS, AND CHILD ALLOWANCES.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 06, 1937               PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNS MANDATORY SPANISH ARMS</div> <div> EMBARGO ACT.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 31, 1937               GOLD BULLION WAS MOVED FROM THE NEW YORK</div> <div>                     DEPOSITORY TO THE NEWLY BUILT GOLD DEPOSITORY </div> <div> LOCATED AT FORT KNOX, KY. </div> <bR> <div> APRIL 26, 1937          THE SPANISH CITY OF GUERNICA IS BOMBED BY THE GERMAN</div> <div> CONDOR LEGION AT THE SUGGESITON OF FRANCO, NOT HITLER.</div> <div> 1,500 PEOPLE DIED AND 800 PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 1937                  *     NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN BECAME THE PRIME MINISTER OF</div> <div> GREAT BRITIAN.</div> <div>         *     SPAIN'S SOCIALIST JUAN NEGRIN BECOMES PREMIER.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 01, 1937          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNS THE 1937 NEUTRALITY ACT</div> <div> STATING MANDATORY ARMS EMBARGO TO BELLIGERANT </div> <div> NATIONS, MANDATORY TRAVEL BAN ON BELLIGERANT NATION</div> <div> SHIPS, MANDATORY LOAN BAN TO BELLIGERANT NATIONS,</div> <div> MANDATORY BAN ON ARMING MERCHANT SHIPS TRADING WITH</div> <div> BELLIGERNAT NATIONS, AND DISCRETIONARY CASH-AND-CARRY</div> <div> FOR 2 YEARS.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 15, 1937          CZECHOSLOVAKIAN JOSEF KOBEL HAD A DAUGHTER. MADELINE </div> <div> KOBEL ALBRIGHT WAS BORN. SHE WILL BECOME AMERICA'S</div> <div> AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS.  SHE WAS BORN IN</div> <div> HYSPERK, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, NEAR THE GERMAN BORDER.</div> <div> THE KOBEL FAMILY WAS JEWISH. JOSEF WAS A PRESS ATTACHE</div> <div> ASSIGNED IN THE CZECH. EMBASSY TO YUGOSLAVIA.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 11, 1937          RUSSIAN LEADER STALIN BEGINS PURGE OF RED ARMY GENERALS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 1937               BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR) CAMP IS OPENED</div> <div> NEAR WEIMAR IN NORTHWEST GERMANY.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 18 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1937</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <div> NOV. 05, 1937          HITLER REVEALS HIS PLANS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF LIVING</div> <div> SPACE FOR THE GERMAN PEOPLE AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER</div> <div> NATIONS IN EUROPE DURING A SECRET CONFERENCE IN THE </div> <div> REICH CHANCELLERY WITH: WERNE VON BLOMBERG - GERMAN </div> <div> WAR MINISTER,  WERNER VON FRITSCH - COMMANDER IN CHIEF </div> <div> OF THE ARMY, ERICH RAEDER - COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE </div> <div> NAVY, HERMANN GORING - COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE</div> <div> LUTHWAFFE, CONSTANTIN VON NEURATH - FOREIGN MINISTER, </div> <div> AND COLONEL FRIEDRICH HOSSBACH, WHO TOOK THE MINUTES.</div> <div> THIS MEETING WAS KNOWN AS THE HOSSBACH CONFERENCE. </div> <bR> <div> NOV. 08, 1937          THE "ETERNAL JEW" TRAVELLING EXHIBITION OPENS IN MUNICH,</div> <div> GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> DECEMBER 1937          AMERICAN PLANE, THE CONSAIR PBY CATALINA, BECOMES 4 </div> <div> ENGINE SUPER DREADNAUGHT.</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                                </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 19 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1938</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> - ?  -    1938                  *     TURKEY'S LEADED KEMAL ATATRUK DIES.</div> <div>         *      NAZI GERMANY ALREADY HAS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JEWS IN</div> <div>                      CONCENTRATION      CAMPS.</div> <div>         *     2 GERMAN SCIENTISTS, OTTO HAHN AND FRITZ STRASSMANN</div> <div> SUCCEEDED IN FISSIONING A SMALL NUMBER OF URANIUM</div> <div> ATOMS IN THEIR LABORATORY. A GROUP OF SCIENTISTS UPON</div> <div> HEARING OF THE EXPERIMENT PERSUADED ALBERT EINSTEIN TO</div> <div> WRITE A LETTER TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.</div> <div>         *     HUNGARY PASSES A LAW PROHIBITING JEWS FROM MARRYING</div> <div> CHRISTIANS.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 21, 1938            HENRY LUCE'S MARCH OF TIME FILM "GENEVA" IS RELEASED</div> <div> INSIDE NAZI GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 20, 1938                  *     HITLER ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR JAPAN.</div> <div>         *     HITLER APPOINTS JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP AS GERMANY'S</div> <div> FOREIGN MINISTER.</div> <bR> <div> MARCH 1938                  *     AFTER THE GERMAN UNION WITH AUSTRIA, THE GERMAN SS IS</div> <div> PLACED IN CHARGE OF JEWISH AFFAIRS IN AUSTRIA WITH ADLOF</div> <div> EICHMANN ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE FOR JEWISH EMIGRATION IN</div> <div> VIENNA.               </div> <div>         *     GESTAPO LEADER HIMMLER ESTABLISHED MAUTHAUSEN</div> <div> CONCENTRATION CAMP NEAR LINZ, AUSTRIA.</div> <bR> <div> MARCH 12 - 13, 1938     HITLER SENDS  TROOPS INTO AUSTRIA (200,000 JEWSISH POPULATION). </div> <div> AUSTRIA IS ANNEXED BY HITLER.  AUSTRIA HAS A PRIME MINISTER</div> <div> CHAMBERLAIN OF BRITIAN GAVE IN TO HITLER  BY APPEASEMENT, </div> <div> AS A MEANS OF PREVENTING WAR.  HITLER ANNOUNCES ANSCHLUSS</div> <div>  (A UNION) WITH AUSTRIA.  AFTER AUSTRIA, HITLER DECLARED "THAT                     CZECHOSLOVAKIA WAS A SMALL-RATE COUNTRY THAT HAD NO</div> <div> RIGHT TO STAND IN THE WAY OF THE MIGHTY GERMAN REICH."</div> <bR> <div> MARCH 13, 1938          AMERICAN EDWARD R. MURROW BROADCASTS HIS FIRST :NEWS</div> <div> ROUNDUP" ON CBS RADIO.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 22, 1938          HILTER PASSES A LAW PROHIBITING ARYAN "FRONT-OWNERSHIP"</div> <div> OF JEWISH BUSINESSES.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 21 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1938</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> APRIL 1938               BARRON GEORG RITTER VON TRAPP, AN AUSTRIAN WORLD</div> <div>                     WAR I SUBMARINE HERO, AND HIS FAMILY WAS ORDERED BY </div> <div> HITLER TO SING ON HIS 49TH BIRTHDAY, ON APRIL 20, 1938. </div> <div> HE TURNED HITLER DOWN. HE DID NOT BELIEVE IN NAZISM.</div> <div> VON TRAPP AND HIS FAMILY FLED AUSTRIA, THROUGH ENGLAND </div> <div> TO AMERICA.  THE VON TRAPP FAMILY WAS A FAMOUS</div> <div> SIGNING FAMILY. MARIA, ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS, WROTE A </div> <div> BOOK ABOUT THE FAMILY, WHICH BECAME A MOVIE IN 1965,</div> <div>                      TITLED "THE SOUND OF MUSIC" STARING JULIE ANDREWS AS</div> <div> MARIA.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 26, 1938          NAZIS ORDER JEWS TO REGISTER THEIR WEALTH AND PROPERTY.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 1938                  *     HITLER GIVES FORMAL RECOGNITION OF MANCHUKUO.</div> <div>         *     FLOSSENBURG CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR) CAMP IS</div> <div> OPENED IN GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 14, 1938          NAZIS GERMANY ORDERS JEWISH OWNED BUSINESSES TO REGISTER.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 22, 1938          AMERICAN BOXER JOE LOUIS DEFEATES GERMAN BOXER</div> <div> MAX SCHNELING IN YANKEE STADIUM BEFORE 70,000 PEOPLE.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 1938                  *     HITLER CLAIMED THE GERMANS LIVING IN THE SUDETENLAND,</div> <div> PART OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, WERE BEING OPPRESSED BY THE </div> <div> CZECHS. HITLER WANTED THE GERMANS TO HAVE SELF-RULE</div> <div> AND THREATENED WAR IF HIS DEMANDS WERE NOT MET.</div> <div> THE CZECHS TURN TO BRITIAN AND FRANCE FOR HELP.</div> <div>         *     AMERICAN HOWARD HUGHES FLIES AROUND THE WORLD IN</div> <div> A LOCKEE D VEGA IN RECORD TIME.</div> <div>                                 *     RUSSIA'S STALIN DECIDES TO STOP AID TO SPAIN'S REPUBLICAN</div> <div> GOVERNMENT FORCES BECAUSE WESTERN DEMOCARICES NOT</div> <div> HELPIGN AND FRANCO IS WINNING THE WAR.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 06, 1938          HITLER PASSES A LAW PROHBITING JEWS FROM TRADING AND</div> <div> PROVIDING A VARIETY OF SPECIFIED COMMERCIAL SERVICES.  </div> <bR> <div> JULY 06 - 15, 1938           AT EVIAN, FRANCE, THE U.S. CONVENES A LEAGUE OF NATIONS</div> <div> CONFERENCE WITH DELEGATES FROM 32 COUNTIRES TO CONSIDER</div> <div> HELPING JEWS FLEEING HITLER, BUT RESULTS IN INACTION AS NO</div> <div> COUNTRY WILL ACCEPT THEM.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 21 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1938</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JULY 12, 1938          SACHSENHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, LOCATED 35 MILES FROM</div> <div> BERLIN, GERMANY, WAS ESTABLISHED. </div> <bR> <div> JULY 23, 1938          NAZI GERMANY ORDERS JEWS OVER THE AGE OF 15 TO APPLY</div> <div> FOR IDENTIFICATION CARDS FROM THE POLICE AND TO BE SHOWN</div> <div> UPON DEMAND BY POLICE.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 25, 1938          HITLER PASSES A LAW  PROHIBITING JEWISH DOCTORS FROM</div> <div> PRACTICING MEDICINE.</div> <bR> <div> AUGUST 1938             *     RUSSIA'S STALIN IS DISILLUSIONED WITH THE WEST AND HE</div> <div> SIGNS A NAZI-SOVIET PACT WITH HITLER.</div> <div>         *     MAUTHAUSEN CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR0 CAMP IS OPENED</div> <div> IN AUSTRIA.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> AUG. 11, 1938          GERMAN NAZIS DESTROY THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE IN NUREMBERG,</div> <div> GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 12, 1938          THE GERMAN MILITARY BEGINS MOBILIZATION.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 17, 1938          NAZI GERMANY ORDERS ALL JEWISH WOMEN TO ADD "SARAH"</div> <div> AND ALL JEIWSH MEN TO ADD "ISRAEL" TO THIER NAMES ON ALL</div> <div> LEGAL DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING PASSPORTS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 27, 1938          JEWS IN GERMANY ARE PROHIBITED FROM ALL LEGAL PRACTICES.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 29 - 30, 1938             *     GERMANY'S HITLER, ITALY'S MUSSOLINI, BRITIAN'S  CHAMBERLAIN,</div> <div> AND FRANCE'S PREMIER EDOUARD DALADIER MET AT A</div> <div> CONFERENCE IN MUNICH, GERMANY, AND AGREED TO HITLER'S</div> <div> ANNEXATION OF THE SUDETENLAND.  KNOWN AS THE MUNICH</div> <div> AGREEMENT. CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND RUSSIA (WHO PROMISED TO</div> <div> PROTECT CZECHOSLOVAKIA) WERE NOT INVITED TO THE</div> <div> CONFERENCE. HITLER ANNOUNCED "THIS IS THE LAST TERRITORIAL</div> <div> CLAIM I  SHALL MAKE IN EUROPE." CHANBERLAIN RETURNS TO</div> <div> BRITIAN WITH A COPY STATING "THERE IS PEACE IN OUR TIME."</div> <div>                                 *     THE CENTRAL BANK OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA HAD ALREADY SENT</div> <div> ABOUT 93% OF ITS GOLD TO FOREIGN BANKS, LIKE ENGLAND. </div> <div> CZECH. OFFICALS IN PRAGUE, QUIETLY ASKED BRITISH OFFICALS</div> <div> TO BLOCK THE TRANSFER, BUT HALD OF THE GOLD WAS ALREADY</div> <div> TURNED OVER TO GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 05, 1938          GERMAN LAW REQUIRES JEWISH PASSPORTS TO BE STAMPED WITH</div> <div> A LARGE RED "J".</div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 22 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1938</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> OCT. 15, 1938          GERMAN TROOPS OCCUPY THE SUDENTLAND. THE</div> <div> CZECHOSLOVAKIAN GOVERNMENT RESIGNS. BANK OFFICALS WERE</div> <div> THREATENED WITH EXECUTION, UNLESS THEY DRAW UP DOCUMENTS</div> <div> REQUESTING THE BANK OF ENGLAND TO TRANSFER OVER 50 TONS OF</div> <div> CZECHOSLOVASKIAN GOLD TO GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 18, 1938          AMERICAN CHARLES LINDBERG FLEW TO GERMANY AND WAS</div> <div> GIVEN A MEDAL FROM HERMAN GOERING.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 28, 1938          NAZIS ARREST 17,000 JEWS OF POLISH NATIONALITY LIVING</div> <div> IN GERMANY AND EXPELS THEM BACK TO POLAND. POLAND</div> <div> REFUSES THEM ENTRY, LEAVING THEM IN "NO-MAN'S-LAND"</div> <div> NEAR THE POLISH BOARDER FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> OCT. 30, 1938          AMERICAN ORSON WELLS BROADCASTS "THE WAR OF THE</div> <div> WORLDS" ON RADIO AND CAUSES A PANIC.</div> <bR> <div> NOVEMBER 1938          AFTER THE MUNICH CONFERENCE, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT</div> <div> SWITCHES FROM NAVY TO AIR FORCE AS MAIN UNITED STATES</div> <div> DEFENSE.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 07, 1938          ERNST VON RATH, 3RD SECRETARY IN THE GERMAN EMBASSY IN</div> <div> PARIS, FRANCE, IS SHOT AND WAS KILLED BY THE SON OF A</div> <div> DEPORTED POLISH JEW. HE WAS ASSASSINATED FOR THE JEWS </div> <div> BEING RELOCATED FROM GERMANY TO POLAND. THE REAL TARGET</div> <div> WAS THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR, BUT HE WAS NOT IN THE EMBASSY.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 09 - 10, 1938          HITLER'S PROPAGANDIST GOEBBELS USED THE ASSASSINATION</div> <div> IN THE PARIS GERMAN EMBASSY TO LAUNCH A PROGRAM AGAINST</div> <div> THE JEWS. 101 SYNAGOGUES AND 7,500 JEWISH BUSINESS WERE</div> <div> DESTROYED.  26,000 GERMAND AND AUSTRIAN JEWISH MEN WERE</div> <div> ARRESTED AND SENT TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND 91 JEWS </div> <div> WERE BEATEN TO DEATH. MANY JEWISH WOMEN WERE JAILED.</div> <div> THIS PROGRAM WAS CALLED KRISTALLNACHT OR "THE NIGHT </div> <div> OF BROKEN GLASS".</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 12, 1938          NAZIS FINE THE JEWS 1 BILLION MARKS FOR DAMAGES RELATED</div> <div> TO THE "NIGHT OF THE BROKEN GLASS".</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 15, 1938          ALL JEWISH CHILDREN ARE EXPELLED FROM ALL NON-JEWISH</div> <div> GERMAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.  SEGERATED JEWISH SCHOOLS ARE</div> <div> CREATED.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 23 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1938</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DECEMBER 1938          SWITZERLAND BORDER GUARDS ALLOWED 28,000 JEWISH REFUGEES</div> <div> INTO THE COUNTRY. THE SWISS JEWISH COMMUNITY HAD TO PAY A</div> <div> TAX FOR THE JEWISH REFUGEES TO THE SWISS GOVERNMENT. </div> <bR> <div> DEC. 02 - 03, 1938          ALL GYPSIES IN GERMANY ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER WITH THE</div> <div> POLICE.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 03, 1938          GERMANY PASSES A LAW FOR COMPULSORY ARYANIZATION</div> <div> OF ALL JEWISH BUSINESSES.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 14, 1938          HERMANN GORING TAKES CHARGE OF RESOLVING THE "JEWISH</div> <div> QUESTION".</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 28, 1938          CZECHOSLOVAKIAN PRESS ATTACHE JOSEF KORBEL WAS</div> <div> RECALLED FROM BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA.</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 24 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1939</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div>   - ? -    1939                  *     HUNGARY SIGNS THE ANTI-COMINTERN PACT.</div> <div>         *      THE 1939 WORLD'S FAIR WAS HELD IN THE UNITED STATES</div> <div> AT NEW YORK CITY.</div> <div>         *     FRANCE ESTABLISHED CONCENTRATION CAMPS LIKE GURS      </div> <div> AND NOE DESIGNED TO RECEIVE THE SPANISH REFUGEES</div> <div> ESCAPING FROM THE FASCIST RULE OF SPAIN'S FRANCO.</div> <bR> <div> JANUARY 1939             *     SWISS BORDER GUARDS EASILY RECONGIZE THE PASSPORTS OF</div> <div> THE JEWS DUE TO THE LARGE RED "J" STAMPED ON THEM BY</div> <div> GERMANY.  SWITZERLAND TURNED AWAY 30,000 JEWISH REFUGEES</div> <div> FROM ITS BORDERS AND HANDED THEM OVER TO GESTAPO.</div> <div>         *     CONSAIR B-24 BOMBER IS DEVELOPED BY AMERICA AFTER ARMY                          INQUIRY.</div> <div>         *     SPANISH CITY OF BARCELONA IS CAPTURED BY FRANCO'S FORCES.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 10, 1939               RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE DEFECTOR WALTER KRIVITSKY HAS THE</div> <div> FIRST OF SEVERAL DEBRIEFINGS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE</div> <div> IN WASHINGTON, D.C.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 12, 1939               PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ASKS CONGRESS FORM 525 MILLION</div> <div> DOLLARS MORE FOR DEFENSE, ESPICALLY AIRPLANES. </div> <bR> <div> JAN. 23, 1939               AMERICAN DOUGLAS DB-7 BOMBER CRASHES AND INJURED A</div> <div> FRENCHMAN ON BOARD.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 24, 1939               GERMAN SS LEADER REINHARD HEYDRICH IS ORDERED BY</div> <div> GORING TO SPEED UP EMIGRATION OF JEWS.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 30, 1939               HITLER THREATENS THE JEWS DURING REICHSTAG SPEECH.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 31, 1939               PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IMPLIES THE UNITED STATES FRONTIER</div> <div> IS "ON THE RHINE". NEWSPAPER REPORTS ARE ALARMING.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 10, 1939               SPANISH CITY OF CATALONIA IS CAPTURED BY FRANCO'S FORCES.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 21, 1939               NAZI GERMAN FORCE ALL JEWS TO HAND OVER ALL GOLD AND</div> <div> SILVER ITEMS.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 15, 1939             *     HITLER SENDS TROOPS INTO CZECHOSLOVAKIA. CZECHOSLOVAKIA</div> <div> IS ANNEXED BY HITLER, EXPECT SOLVAKIA, WHIC IS MADE A</div> <div> PUPPET STATE. JEWISH POPULATION IS 350,000 IN CZECHOSOLVAKIA.</div> <div> HITLER STATED THAT "CZECHOSLOVAKIA HAS CEASED TO EXIST." </div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 25 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>                       1939</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAR. 15, 1939             *  HITLER DEMANDS FROM POLAND THAT DANZIG (EAST PRUSSIA) </div> <div> BE GIVEN TO GERMANY AND THAT GERMANY MUST BE ALLOWED </div> <div> TO OCCUPY THE NARROW STRIP OF LAND (THE DANZIG CORRIDOR) </div> <div> CONNECTING GERMANY AND EAST PRUSSIA. POLAND REFUSED.</div> <div>                                  *     CARPATHO-UKRAINE DECLARES ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM</div> <div> CZECHSLOVAKIA AS GERMAN TROOPS OCCUPY BOHEMIA AND</div> <div> MORAVIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAR.  16, 1939          HUNGARIAN TROOPS OCCUPY CARPATHO-UKRAINE WITH </div> <div> GERMANY'S APPROVAL.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 18, 1939          GERMANY AND ITALY FORM AXIS ALLIANCE.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 22, 1939          HITLER SEIZED THE MENEL AREA FROM LITHUANIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 28, 1939             *     THE SPANISH CITY OF VALENCIA CAPTURED BY FRANCO'S</div> <div> FORCES.     </div> <div>         *     THE CAPITAL CITY OF  MADRID, SPAIN, WAS TAKEN BY FRANCO'S</div> <div> REBEL FORCES. THIS ENDED THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR. FRANCO</div> <div> BECOMES RULER OF SPAIN. HIS RULE IS HARSH AND HE IMPRISONED </div> <div> 1 MILLION PEOPLE AFTER THE END OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 31, 1939          BRITIAN AND FRANCE WARNED HITLER THAT THEY WOULD COME</div> <div> TO POLAND'S AID IF HE ATTACKED.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 1939               THE FIRST PEACETIME CONSCRIPTION IN BRITIAN HISTORY BECAME</div> <div> LAW.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 03, 1939             *     UNITED STATES RECONGIZES FRANCO AS THE LEADER OF SPAIN.</div> <div>         *     100,000 REFUGEES FLED SPAIN FOR FRANCE, NORTH AFRICA, AND</div> <div> MEXICO.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 07, 1939          ITALY INVADES AND ANNEXES ALBANIA.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 19, 1939          SLOVAKIA PASSES ITS OWN VERSION OF THE NUREMBERG LAWS.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 30, 1939          GERMAN JEWS LOSE THEIR RIGHTS AS TENANTS AND ARE RELOCATED</div> <div> INTO JEWISH HOUSES.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 1939               RAVENSBRUCK CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR) CAMP IS OPENED</div> <div> IN GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 22, 1939          GERMANY SIGNS THE "PACT OF STEEL" WITH ITALY.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 26 -</div> <bR> <div>      PRE-WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div> 1939</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAY 23, 1939          U.S. SUBMARINE SQUALUS SANK ON A DEEP-WATER TRAINING</div> <div> EXERCISE OFF THE COAST OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 25, 1939          U.S. NAVY RESCUED 33 SAILORS FROM THE SUBMARINE SQUALUS</div> <div> FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR USING AN EXPERMENTAL DIVING BELL.     </div> <div> 26 SAILORS DIED IN THE SINKING. THE SUBMAIRNE IS EVENTUALLY</div> <div> SALVAGED, REPAIRED, AND SERVED AS THE U.S.S. SAILFISH.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 1939               THE SHIP ST. LOUIS, CROWDED WITH 930 JEWISH REFUGEES, IS TURNED</div> <div> AWAY BY CUBA, THE UNITED STATES, AND OTHER COUNTRIES. THE</div> <div> SHIP RETURNS TO EUROPE.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 26, 1939          AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GIVES THE FBI EXCLUSIVE</div> <div> RESPONSIBILITY FOR COUNTER ESPIONAGE.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 1939               WESTERBORK CONCENTRATION CAMP IN HOLLAND IS OPENED</div> <div> BY THE DUTCH TO RECEIVE THE JEWISH REFUGEES ESCAPING</div> <div> FROM GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 04, 1939          GERMAN JEWS ARE DENIED THE RIGHT TO HOLD GOVERNMENT JOBS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 21, 1939          ADOLF EICHMANN IS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE PRAGUE OFFICE</div> <div> OF JEWISH EMIGTATION. </div> <bR> <div> AUG. 23, 1939             *     GERMANY (RIBBENTROP) AND RUSSIA (MOLOTOV) SIGN A NON-</div> <div> AGGRESSION ALLIANCE PACT, AGREEING NOT TO GO TO WAR </div> <div> WITH EACH OTHER AND ALSO ALLOWS STALIN TO ANNEX AND </div> <div> OCCUPY THE BALTIC STATES, OF LATVIA, LITHUANIA, AND ESTONIA</div> <div> THUS ALLOWING HITLER TO SECURE HIS EASTERN FRONT AND</div> <div> CONCENTRATE HIS CONQUESTS ON THE WESTERN FRONT.</div> <div>         *     ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE A LETTER TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT</div> <div> SUGGESTING THAT A NUCLEAR WEAPON MIGHT BE POSSIBLE AND</div> <div> THAT THE AMERICA SHOULD INVESTIGATE IT. PRESIDENT</div> <div> ROOSEVELT APPOINTED A COMMITTEE TO LOOK INTO THIS MATTER. </div> <bR> <div> AUG. 25, 1939          GREAT BRITIAN AND POLAND SIGN THE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE</div> <div> TREATY.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 31, 1939          BRITISH FLEET MOBILIZES AND CIVILIAN EVACUATIONS BEGIN</div> <div> FROM LONDON, ENGLAND.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 27 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1939</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> <B>SEPT. 01, 1939</B>          GERMANY INVADES POLAND. <B><U>THE REAL WAR BEGINS.</U></B></div> <div> GERMANY'S COMMANDING COLONEL GENERAL,</div> <div> H.A.H. WALTER VON BRAUCHIST'S 2 ARMIES ADVANCED</div> <div> INTO POLAND. IT WAS THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF</div> <div> "BLITZKRIEG" (OR LIGHTING WARFARE) WAS USED.</div> <div>                                          *     AMBASSADOR WILLIAM BULLITT CALLED FROM PARIS, FRANCE</div> <div> TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND TOLD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT THAT</div> <div> WORLD WAR II HAS BEGAN WITH HITLER'S ATTACK ON POLAND.</div> <div> PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MADE A PLEA TO GERMANY, FRANCE, </div> <div> ENGLAND, POLAND, AND ITALY NOT TO BOMB OPEN CITIES</div> <div> AND NON-COMBATANTS. THE RELPY WAS EACH WOULD DO SO,</div> <div> AS LONG AS THE OTHERS DID. MUSSOLINI VOICED ITALY'S</div> <div> NEUTRALITY. </div> <div>                                    *     WITH GERMANYS INVASION OF POLAND, NAZI AGITATORS IN </div> <div> DANZIG PROCLAIMED DANZIG'S RETURN TO GERMANY.</div> <div>         *  BRITISH LINER ATHENIA WAS SUNK BY A GERMAN U-BOAT</div> <div> SUBMARINE, U-30.</div> <div>         *     JEWS IN GERMANY ARE FORBIDDEN TO BE OUTDOORS AFTER 8 P.M.</div> <div>                                        *     STUTTHOF CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR) CAMP IS OPENED</div> <div> IN POLAND. 250 POLISH CITIZENS AND P.O.W.'S ARRIVED IN CAMP.</div> <div> COMMANDER OF THE CAMP IS SS OFFICER MAX PAULI, WHO WAS</div> <div> TIRED BY THE ALLIED TRIBUNAL AND SENTENCED TO DEATH.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 03, 1939             *     GREAT BRITIAN,  FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, AND NEW ZEALAND </div> <div> DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY.</div> <div>         *     ENGLAND'S PRIME MINISTER NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN ADDRESSES</div> <div> THE WORLD AFTER GERMNAY'S INVASION OF POLAND.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN SUBMARINE U-30 SINKS BRITISH LINER ATHENIA.</div> <div> THE FIRST SINKING OF THE WAR BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE. </div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 04, 1939             *      BRITISH R.A.F. PLANES ATTACK GERMAN NAVY.</div> <div>         *     WARSAW, POLAND IS CUT OFF BY THE GERMAN ARMY.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 05, 1939             *     FRENCH TROOPS MOVED TOWARDS THE "MAGIONT LINE" ALONG</div> <div> GERMANYS BORDER. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM SWITZERLAND</div> <div> TO LUXEMBURG. IN PLACES IT WAS 25 MILES WIDE.</div> <div>                   *     AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DECLARES NEUTRALITY AND</div> <div> NATIONAL EMERGENCY. HE HOLD'S A PRESS CONFERENCE</div> <div> ABOUT STAYING OUT OF THE WAR, STATING  "I NOT ONLY </div> <div> SINCERELY HOPE SO, BUT I BELIEVE WE CAN, AND EVERY EFFORT</div> <div> WILL BE MADE BY THIS ADMINISTRATION TO DO SO".  </div> <div>         *     GERMAN TROOPS CROSS THE VISTULA RIVER IN POLAND.</div> <div>         *     A GERMAN SUBMARINE SINKS CARGO SHIP BOSNIA.</div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 28 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1939</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> SEPT. 05, 1939             *     JOSEF KOBEL'S FAMILY FLED NAZI OCCUPIED PRAGUE,</div> <div> CZECHOSLOVAKIA FOR LONDON, ENGLAND.  TRAVELED </div> <div> THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE TO REACH ENGLAND.  </div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 06, 1939          FIRST CONVOY OF 36 SHIPS IN 9 PARALLEL ROWS OF 4 EACH.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> SEPT. 07, 1939          THE GERMAN ARMIES ADVANCING IN POLAND FROM THE NORTH </div> <div> AND THE SOUTH  JOINED. </div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 08, 1939            *     AMERICAN PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT PROCLAIMED A</div> <div> STATE OF LIMITED EMERGENCY.</div> <div>                                *     A POLISH COUNTER ATTACK AGAINST THE GERMANS,  LED BY</div> <div> MARSHAL EDWARD SMIGLY-RYDZ  FAILED.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 10, 1939             *     ALL OF WESTERN POLAND IS UNDER GERMAN OCCUPATION.</div> <div>         *     CANADA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY.</div> <div>         *      BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC BEGINS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 15, 1939          THERE WERE 6,000 PRISONERS IN STUTTHOF CONCENTRATION</div> <div> CAMP IN POLAND. MOST OF THEM WERE EXECUTED BY THE SS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 17, 1939          RUSSIA INVADES EASTERN POLAND, LATVIA, ESTONIA, AND</div> <div> LITHUANIA  AS PART OF THEIR AGREEMENT WITH GERMANY.</div> <div> CARPATHO-UKRANIE COMES UNDER RUSSIA'S CONTROL AND</div> <div> BECOMES THE RUSSIAN UKRAINE.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 18, 1939            *     RUSSIAN AND GERMAN TROOPS MEET AT BREST-LITOVSK, POLAND.</div> <div>        *   A GERMAN SUBMARINE SANK THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER</div> <div> COURAGEOUS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 21, 1939          GERMAN SS LEADER REINHARD HEYDRICH ISSUES ORDERS TO</div> <div> SPECIAL SS UNITS IN POLAND REGARDING JEWS TO BE GEATHERED</div> <div> UP AND PUT INTO "GHETTOS". THE GHETTOS WILL BE RUNNED BY</div> <div> NAZI POLICIES AND DECREES ISSUED BY JEWISH GHETTO COUNCILS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 23, 1939          NAZI GERMANY FORDBIDS ALL JEWS TO OWN RADIOS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 27, 1939              *     WARSAW, CAPITAL OF POLAND, IS CAPTURED BY THE  GERMANS.</div> <div>          *     GERMAN SS LEADER, REINHARD HEYDRICH, BECOMES LEADER OF </div> <div> THE NEW REICH MAIN SECURITY OFFICE (RSHA) AND BEGINS</div> <div> PLACING POLSIH JEWS IN GHETTOS.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 29 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1939</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> LATE-SEPT. 1939             *     FRENCH TROOPS FOUGHT ALONG THE SAAR REGION AND</div> <div> ATTACKED SAARBRUCKEN, GERMANY, ON THE SAAR RIVER</div> <div> NEAR THE FRENCH BORDER. </div> <div> FRANCE REALIZING THAT POLAND COULD NOT BE AIDED</div> <div> WITHDREW ENTIRLEY WITHIN THE MAGINOT LINE.</div> <div>              *      CZECHOSLOVAKIAN LEADER TOMAS MASARYK STEPPED DOWN</div> <div> HE WAS REPLACED BY EDUARD BENES, WHO SET UP A </div> <div> GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE IN ENGLAND. JOSEF KROBEL BECAME</div> <div> HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT'S INFORMATION DEPARTMENT. </div> <div> HE HELPED SET UP RADIO BROADCASTS VIA THE B.B.C. TO</div> <div> OCCUPIED CZECHSLOVAKIA.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 28, 1939          GERMANY AND RUSSIA REVISE THEIR NON-AGGRESSION PACT.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 29, 1939          GERMANY AND RUSSIA DIVIDE UP POLAND.  GERMANY CONTROLLS</div> <div> 2 MILLION JEWS IN OCCUPIED POLAND AND RUSSIA CONTROLS 1.3</div> <div> MILLION JEWS IN OCCUPIED POLAND.</div> <bR> <div> OCTOBER 1939             *     GERMAN RAIDER SHIP THE DEUTSCHLAND SIEZED THE AMERICAN</div> <div> FREIGHTER CITY OF FLINT AND SENT INTO THE RUSSIAN PORT OF</div> <div> MURMANSK.</div> <div>                               *     NAZI'S BEGIN "EUTHANASIA" PROGRAM ON THE SICK AND DISABLED</div> <div> IN GERMANY.  HITLER EXTENDS POWER OF DOCTORS TO KILL</div> <div> INSTITUTIONALIZED MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED</div> <div> PERSONS - ESPECIALLY GYPSIES AND GERMANS WITH AFRICAN</div> <div> HERITAGE. </div> <bR> <div> OCT. 02, 1939          THE CONGRESS OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS (REPRESENTING ALL</div> <div> NATIONS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE), PROCLAIMED A 300</div> <div> MILE NETURAL ZONE WITHIN WHICH ACTS OF WAR WOULD BE</div> <div> RESISTED. IT WAS CALLED THE DECLARATION OF PANAMA.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 05, 1939          LUBIN, POLAND, THE LAST POLISH STRONGHOLD, FELL TO THE</div> <div> GERMANS.  </div> <bR> <div> OCT. 06, 1939             *     THE LAST ORGANIZED POLISH RESISTANCE IS CRUSHED BY THE</div> <div> GERMANS AT KOCK, POLAND. POLAND SURRENDERS TO GERMANY.</div> <div> POLAND WAS DEFEATED IN  36 DAYS.</div> <div>         *     HITLER ISSUES A PROCLAMATION ON THE ISOLATION OF THE JEWS.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 07, 1939          RUSSIA ORDERED FINALND GIVE UP LAND NEAR LENINGRAD.</div> <div> AND ISLANDS OFF THE NEVAL BASE AT KRONSTADT, AND GRANT</div> <div> USE OF THE HANKO NAVAL BASE. FINLAND REFUSED.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 30 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1939</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> OCT. 08, 1939          WESTERN POLAND IS INCORPORATED INTO GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 09, 1939          THE 1ST JEWISH REFUGEES ARRIVE AT WESTERBORK </div> <div> CONCENTRATION CAMP IN HOLLAND.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 12, 1939             *     HITLER APPOINTS HANS FRANK, NAZI GOVERNOR OF POLAND.</div> <div>                               *     HITLER APPOINTS ARTHUR SEYSS-INQUART AS DEPUTY GOVERNOR-</div> <div> GENERAL IN POLAND UNDER HANS FRANK, HITLER'S NAZI GOVERNOR</div> <div> OF POLAND.</div> <div>         *      EVACUATION OF THE JEWS FROM VIENNA, AUSTRIA.</div> <div>                                *     WESTERN UKRAINE IS INCORPARATED INTO GERMANY AS THE</div> <div> "GENERAL GOVERNMENT".</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 14, 1939          A GERMAN SUBMARINE SANK THE BATTLESHIP ROYAL OAK IN</div> <div> SCAPA FLOW, A BRITISH NAVAL BASE IN THE ORKNEY ISLANDS,</div> <div> OF NORTHERN SCOTLAND.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 26, 1939             *     NAZIS ORDERD A FORCED LABOR DECREE OF POLISH JEWS AGED</div> <div> FROM 14 TO 60.</div> <div>         *      CRACOW, POLAND BECOMES THE CAPITAL OF NAZI OCCUPIED</div> <div> POLAND.</div> <bR> <div> NOVEMBER 1939             *  GERMANY SEEDED MAGNETIC MINES BY AIRPLANES AND</div> <div> SUBMARINES ACROSS THE ENTRANCES TO BRITISH PORTS.</div> <div>                                *     THE U.S. NEUTRALITY ACT WAS AMENDED, TO PERMIT THE SALE OF</div> <div> MUNITIONS TO THE WARRING POWERS, BUT ON A "CASH AND CARRY"</div> <div> BASIS. IT ALSO STATED THAT AMERICAN SHIPS ARE BARRED FROM</div> <div> COMBAT ZONES AND MERCHANT SHIPS ARE NOT TO BE ARMED.</div> <div>         *     THE PRISON POPULATION AT SACHSENHAUSEN CONCENTRATION</div> <div> CAMP IS 11,311 INMATES. AT THIS TIME THE 1ST TYPHUS EPIDEMIC</div> <div> STARTED DUE TO THE SS REFUSED TO GIVE MEDICAL CARE AND</div> <div> THE LACK OF FOOD. HUNDREDS IF INMATES DIED.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 04, 1939          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNS THE NEUTRALITY ACT OF 1939,</div> <div> STATING THE ARMS EMBARGO IS REPEALED BUT TRADE MUST</div> <div> BY CASH AND CARRY, NO U.S. SHIPS IN WAR ZONE AROUND</div> <div> BRITISH ISLES, NO LOANS TO BELLIGERAT NATIONS, NO TRAVEL</div> <div> ON BELLIGERANT NATION SHIPS, AND NO ARMED MERCHANT SHIPS.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 31 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1939</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> NOV. 06, 1939          2 WEEKS AFTER GERMANY INVADED POLAND, THE NAZI SECURITY</div> <div> POLICE ROUNDED UP OVER 150 TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS AND</div> <div> SENT THEM TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THE UNIVERSITIES</div> <div> WERE CLOSED, VANDALIZED, OR ROBBED OF ALL EQUIPMENT TO</div> <div> DESTROY POLISH INTELLECTUAL LIFE. </div> <bR> <div> NOV. 08, 1939             *     AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HITLER FAILS.</div> <div>         *     RUSSIA OFFICALLY APPROVES ANNEXATION OF WESTERN</div> <div> UKRAINE FROM GERMANY TO BECOME RUSSIAN TERRITORY.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 23, 1939             *     THE GERMAN RAIDER SHIP THE DEUTSCHLAND DESTROYED THE</div> <div> MERCHANT CRUISER RAWALPINDI.</div> <div>               *     NAZIS ORDER YELLOW STARS ARE TO BE WORN BY ALL POLISH </div> <div> JEWS OVER THE AGE OF 10.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 30, 1939          RUSSIA INVADES FINLAND WITHOUT A DECLERATION OF WAR</div> <div> AND TO REPLACE THE FINNISH GOVERNMENT WITH A PUPPET</div> <div> GOVERNMENT CALLED "TERIJOKI GOVERNMENT".</div> <div> FINNISH TROOPS WERE BEATEN AT THE FINNISH CITY OF RAATE</div> <div> BY RUSSIAN FORCES. THE FINNISH TROOPS RETREATED TO THE</div> <div> "PURASJOKI  LINE", STREACHING FROM PURASJOKI TO JANISMAA.</div> <bR> <div> DECEMBER 1939          ADOLF EICHMANN TAKES COMMAND OF SECTION IV OF THE</div> <div> GESTAPO, DEALING WITH JEWISH AFFAIRS AND EVACUATIONS.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 01, 1939          FINNISH TROOPS DEFENDED THE LINE AND DELAYED THE</div> <div> RUSSIAN FORCES ADVANCE TO CITY OF SUNOMUSSALMI. </div> <bR> <div> DEC. 03, 1939          RUSSIAN FORCES, SUPPORTED BY ARTILLERY,  ATTACKED THE</div> <div> FINNISH DEFENSIVE LINE NEAR  JANISMAA, FINLAND. </div> <bR> <div> DEC. 04, 1939          THE FINNISH TROOPS RETREATED AND SET UP NEW DEFENSIVE</div> <div> LINE NEAR MATTILA, 1O MILES WEST OF PURASJOKI.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 05, 1939          FINNISH FORCES COUNTER-ATTACKED THE RUSSIANS NEAR</div> <div> PURASJOKI, BUT WERE DRIVEN BACK TO THE "MATITILA LINE".</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 07, 1939          FINNISH TROOPS ABANDONED THE MATTILA LINE TO AID THE</div> <div> TROOPS AT SUOMUSSALMI. THE RUSSIAN FORCES HAD TAKEN</div> <div> THE CITY AND BEGAN TO ENCIRCLE THE DEFENDERS.</div> <div> 226 FINNISH CITIZENS FROM SUOMUSSALMI WERE TAKEN PRISONER</div> <div> BY THE RUSSIAN FORCES AND TRANSFERRED TO A LABOR CAMP</div> <div> AT KINTISMALKI ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORDER.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 32 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1939</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DEC. 08, 1939          FINNISH FORCES TOOK A DEFENSIVE POSITION ON THE SOUTHERN </div> <div> BANK OF KIANTA LAKE.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 09, 1939          RUSSIAN FORCES ATTACKED THE FINNISH LAKE DEFENSE LINE </div> <div> AND WERE DRIVEN BACK.</div> <div> FINNISH COL. SIILASUVO AND HIS TROOPS ARRIVED TO </div> <div> STRENGTHEN THE FINNISH DEFENSIVE LINE.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 11, 1939          LT. COL. MAKINIEMI'S 27TH INFANTRY REGIMENT ATTACKED</div> <div> THE RUSSIAN FORCES AT SUOMUSSALMI.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 13, 1939          THE GERMAN POCKET BATTLESHIP ADMIRAL GRAFF SPEE WAS</div> <div> DAMAGED IN A SEA BATTLE OFF THE COAST OF URUGUAY BY</div> <div> BRITISH SHIPS ESSEX, AJAX, AND ACHILLES. THE SHIP TOOK</div> <div> REFUGE IN THE HARBOR OF MONTEVIDO, URUGUAY.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 14, 1939          THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS EXPELLED RUSSIA AS AN AGGRESSOR.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 17, 1939          THE SHIP ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE WAS TAKEN OUT TO OF  PORT</div> <div> AT MONTIVEDO, URUGUAY AND SCUTTLED BY ITS OWN GERMAN</div> <div> CREW INSTEAD OF BEING DESTROYED BY THE BRITISH SHIPS.</div> <div> THIS ENDED THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE OFF URUGUAY.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 28, 1939             *     RUSSIAN FORCES WITHDRAW FROM SUOMMUSSALMI TO</div> <div> JU-TUSRANTA. </div> <div>         *     THE FINNISH 9TH DIVISION STOPPED THE ELITE RUSSIAN 44TH</div> <div> DIVISION APPROACHING THE RAATE ROAD.</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 33 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JANUARY 1940          RUSSIAN FORCES UNDER GENERAL GREGORI M. STERN, WITH</div> <div> LARGE CONCENTRATION S OF ARTILLERY, SMASHED THE</div> <div> "MANNERHEIM LINE" FORTIFICATIONS IN SUMMA, IN SOUTHERN                         FINLAND AND THE RUSSIAN ARMY ADVANCED. </div> <bR> <div> JAN. 05, 1940                   *     FINNISH TROOPS ATTACKED THE RUSSIAN DEFENSE LINE ALONG </div> <div> THE RAATE ROAD, BETWEEN KUOMASJOKI AND LIKOHARJU.</div> <div>         *     FINNISH FORCES TOOK THE RAATE ROAD IN THE EASTERN</div> <div> PART OF HAUKILA.</div> <div>         *     RUSSIAN FORCES WERE WIPED OUT ALONG THE KUHMO ROAD IN</div> <div> THE SOUTHEASTERN AREA NEAR ESKOLA AND SANGINLAMPI. </div> <div>         *     FINNISH FORCES OVERRAN THE RUSSIAN FORCES AT LIKOHARJU.</div> <div>         *     FINNISH FORCES ATTACKED THE RAATE ROAD AT RAATE,</div> <div> NEAR THE FINNISH-RUSSIAN BORDER.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 06, 1940               FINNISH FORCES DESTROYED THE REMAINING RUSSIAN FORCES</div> <div> AT THE FINNISH CITY OF HAUKILA.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 08, 1940               RATIONING BEGINS IN GREAT BRITIAN.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 10, 1940               ALL RUSSIAN FORCES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM THE FINNISH</div> <div> CITY OF SUOMUSSALMI. ARUSSIAN ATTEMPT AT A BREAK-THROUGH</div> <div> TO THE WEST HAD FAILED. 2 RUSSIAN DIVISIONS WERE DESTROYED</div> <div> AT SUOMUSSALMI, FINLAND.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 25, 1940               NAZIS CHOOSE THE TOWN OF OSWIECIM (AUSCHWITZ) IN POLAND,</div> <div> NEAR WARSAW, AS THE SITE FOR A NEW CONCENTRATION CAMP.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 12, 1940               THE 1ST DEPORTATION OF GERMAN JEWS INTO OCCUPIED POLAND.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 16, 1940               THE GERMAN SHIP ALTMARK WAS ATTACKED BY A BRITISH </div> <div> DESTROYER IN NETURAL NORWEGIAN WATERS AND 300 BRITISH</div> <div> PRISONERS WERE RESCUED.  HITLER WAS IRRITATED OVER THIS</div> <div> INCIDENT AND PLANNED TO INVADE NORWAY.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 21 -23, 1940          RUSSIAN FORCES ATTACKED THE CITY OF RAATE, FINLAND.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 26, 1940               KOIVISTO, FINLAND,  FELL TO THE RUSSIAN ARMY.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 11, 1940          VIIPURI, FINLAND,  WAS CAPTURED BY THE RUSSIAN ARMY.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 12, 1940          FINLAND SURRENDERS TO RUSSIA AND SIGNS THE TREATY</div> <div> OF MOSCOW.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 34 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAR. 13, 1940          A CEASE FIRE BETWEEN FINLAND AND RUSSIA BEGINS.          </div> <bR> <div> MAR. 14, 1940          A PEACE TREATY IS SIGNED BETWEEN FINLAND AND RUSSIA.</div> <div> FINLAND LOST 1/10TH OF ITS TERRITORY BUT KEPT ITS</div> <div> INDEPENDENCE. OVER 15,000 FINNISH SOLDIERS DIED.</div> <div> 1,500 RUSSIAN TANKS AND 700 AIRPLANES WERE DESTROYED.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 16, 1940          GERMAN PLANES BOMB THE NAVAL BASE SCAPA FLOW, NEAR</div> <div> SCOTLAND.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 19, 1940             *     BRITISH R.A.F. PLANES ATTACK THE AIRBASE AT HORNUM, GERMANY.</div> <div> 1ST BOMBING ATTACK ON GERMANY.</div> <div>         *  HITLER AND MUSSOLINI MEET IN ARMORED TRAIN FOR THE FIRST</div> <div> TIME SINCE THE MUNICH CONFERENCE.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 1940                  *     GERMANY GENERAL HEINRICH HIMMLER, SS COMMANDER, GAVE </div> <div> THE ORDER TO ESTABLISH AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU  CONCENTRATION</div> <div> (EXTERMINATION AND FORCED LABOR) CAMP IN POLAND.  </div> <div>                               HITLER APPOINTS RUDOLF HOSS AS COMMANDANT OF THE</div> <div> NEW AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP IN POLAND. </div> <div>         *     THE 1ST CREMATORY AT SACHSENHAUSEN CONCENTRATION</div> <div> CAMP IS BUILT.</div> <div>         *     AT STUTTUF CONCENTRATION CAMP IN POLAND, SS OFFICER AND</div> <div> SCIENTIST - PROFESSOR RUDOLF SPANNER INVENTED A PROCESS</div> <div> TO PRODUCE SOAP FROM HUMAN FAT. THIS PRODUCT WAS</div> <div> CALLED "REINES JUDISCHE ESFT" (PURE JEWISH FAT). HUNDREDS</div> <div> OF INMATES WERE EXECUTED FOR THIS SOAP.</div> <bR> <div> APR. 09, 1940                 *  GERMANY INVADES NORWAY (350,000 JEWISH POPULATION). </div> <div> GERMAN TROOPS WERE HIDDEN IN THE HOLDS OF SHIPS DOCKING </div> <div> AT NORWEGIAN PORTS, COMMERICAL AIRPLANES LOADED WITH</div> <div> TROOPS LANDED AT AIRPORTS, AND THE GERMAN NAVY STRUCK </div> <div> IN FULL FORCE.</div> <div>         *     OSLO, NORWAY, WAS CAPTURED BY GERMAN FORCES.</div> <div>         *     BERGEN, NORWAY, WAS CAPTURED BY GERMAN FORCES.</div> <div>                                *     TRONDHEIM, NORWAY WAS CAPTURED BY GERMAN FORCES.</div> <div> VIDKUN QUISLING, A NAZI SYMPATHIZER, HELPED GERMANY</div> <div> CAPTURE NORWAY WITH THE AID OF HIS "FIFTH COLUMN",</div> <div> NORWEGIAN NAZI SUPPORTERS.</div> <div>        *     GERMANY INVADES DENMARK  (2,000 JEWISH POPULATION) AND </div> <div> WAS OVERWHELMED BY GERMAN FORCES.</div> <div> DENMARK SURRENDERS TO GERMANY WITHOUT A FIGHT.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 35 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> APR. 10, 1040               IN A SNOWSTORM, 5 BRITISH DESTROYERS ENTERED THE PORT OF</div> <div> NARVIK IN NORTHERN NORWAY, AND SANK GERMAN SUPPLY SHIPS.</div> <bR> <div> APR. 13, 1940               THE BRITISH BATTLESHIP WARSPITE WITH 9 DESTROYERS,</div> <div> DESTROYED THE REMAINING GERMAN NAVAL FORCES IN THE</div> <div> PORT OF NARVIK, NORWAY.</div> <bR> <div> APR. 14, 1940               ALLIED LANDING WERE MADE AT NAMSOS, NORWAY, BY BRITISH</div> <div> AND FRENCH TROOPS.</div> <bR> <div> APR. 15, 1940               THE UKRAINIAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE IS ESTABLISHED IN CRACOW</div> <div> WITH DR. KUBIYOWYCH AS HEAD TO REPRESENT THE UKRAINIANS</div> <div> IN THE "GENERAL GOVERNMENT".</div> <bR> <div> APR. 17, 1940               MORE ALLIED LANDINGS WERE MADE AT ANDALSNES, NORWAY</div> <div> IN AN ATTEMPT TO RECAPTURE THE CITY OF TRONDHEIM, IN</div> <div> CENTRAL NORWAY.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 30, 1940             *     THE BRITISH WERE DRIVEN FROM NAMSOS.</div> <div>         *      THE LODZ GHETTO IN POLAND IS CREATED AND SEALED OFF </div> <div> FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD WITH 230,000 JEWS LOCKED INSIDE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 02, 1940           THE RAPID ADVANCE OF GERMAN TROOPS UP THE OSTERDAL AND</div> <div> GUDBRANDSDAL VALLEYS IN NORWAY AND THE HEAVY AIR</div> <div> ATTACKS  DAMAGED THE ALLIED FORCES ADVANCING IN CENTRAL</div> <div> NORWAY. THE ALLIED FORCES WERE FORCED TO WITHDRAW FROM</div> <div> NORWAY.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 05, 1940          GERMANY CAPTURES THE BRITISH SHIP SEAL AND COPIES ITS</div> <div> TORPEDO DESIGN.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 06, 1940          AWARE OF THE IMPENDING GERMAN INVASION, THE BANK OF</div> <div> NETHERLANDS TRIED TO SEND MUCH OF ITS GOLD TO LONDON ON</div> <div> A FERRY, BUT HIT A MINE AND SANK IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.</div> <div> GERMANS SALVAGED 9 1/2 TONS OF GOLD FROM THE WRECK.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 08, 1940          THE BRITISH GAVE A "VOTE OF CONFIDENCE" TO PRIME MINISTER</div> <div> CHAMBERLAIN, BUT MANY OF HIS PARTY HAVE DESERTED HIM.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 10, 1940             *     WINSTON CHURCHILL SUCCEEDES CHAMBERLAIN AS PRIME MINISTER</div> <div> OF GREAT BRITIAN. CHRUCHILL CAN ONLY PROMISE ONLY "BLOOD,</div> <div> TOIL, TEARS, AND SWEAT."</div> <div>         *     GERMANY INVADES FRANCE (350,000 JEWISH POPULATION).   </div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 36 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAY 10, 1940             *     GERMANY INVADES THE NETHERLANDS (140,000 JEWISH</div> <div> POPULATION). GERMAN PARATROOPERS DROP BEHIND THE DUTCH</div> <div> LINES AND FORCE A GAP BETWEEN DUTCH AND BELGIUM FORCES.</div> <div>                                   *     GERMANY INVADES BELGIUM (65,000 JEWISH POPULATION)..</div> <div>                     *     GERMANY INVADES LUXEMBOURG (3,500 JEWISH POPULATION).</div> <div> THE ATTACKING GERMAN FORCES HAD CLOSE TO 3 MILLION</div> <div> SOLDIERS, AGAINST FRANCES 2,700,00 SOLIDERS, BRITIANS</div> <div> 350,000 SOLIDERS, AND NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM 900,000</div> <div> SOLDIERS. GERMANY ALSO HAD 2,400 TANKS ATTACKING.</div> <div> WHEN BELGIUM WAS ATTACKED THE FRENCH AND BRITISH</div> <div> FORCES MOVED INTO BELGIUM.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 13, 1940             *     THE GERMAN AIR FORCE USES A DEVASTATING AIR ATTACK ON</div> <div> THE CITY OF ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS. 25,000 HOMES, 6,000</div> <div> CITY BUILDINGS (FACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, AND</div> <div> HOSPITALS, AND 30,000 PEOPLE KILLED.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN GENERAL HEINZ GUDERIAN, TANK COMMANDER, </div> <div> WITH LITTLE FRENCH OPPOSITION, CROSSED THE MEUSE RIVER </div> <div> NEAR SEDAN AND SWEPT ACROSS FRANCE. </div> <div> GERMAN GENERAL RUNDSTEDT POURED DIVISIONS INTO THE</div> <div> GAP CREATED BY THE TANKS. </div> <div>                               *     THE BRITISH AND FRENCH ARMIES IN BELGIUM ATTEMPTED  </div> <div> COUNTER-ATTACKS TO STOP THE GERMANS ADVANCING THROUGH</div> <div> THE GAP BUT WERE UNSUCCESSFUL. THE COMBINED ARMY</div> <div> RETREATED.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 14, 1940          ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS,  SURRENDERS TO GERMANY.</div> <div> DUTCH ARMY SURRENDERS TO GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 15, 1940          THE  NETHERLANDS SURRENDERS TO GERMANY. </div> <bR> <div> MAY 17, 1940          THE FRENCH ARMY COUNTER-ATTACK THE GERMANS AND</div> <div> FAIL TO HOLD BACK THE GERMAN INVASION OF FRANCE. </div> <bR> <div> MAY 19, 1940          GENERAL MAXIME WEYGAND REPLACED GENERAL MAURICE</div> <div> GAMELIN AS THE FRENCH COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 20, 1940             *     PAUL REYNAUD SUCCEEDED DALADIER AS PREMIER OF FRANCE.</div> <div> REYNAUD DISMISSED DALADIER AS WAR MINISTER AND ASSUMED</div> <div> THE POSITION HIMSELF, WITH CHARLES DeGAULLE AS HIS ADVISOR,</div> <div> AND MARSHAL HENRI PETAIN AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE WAR</div> <div> COUNCIL. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 37 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAY 20, 1940             *     GERMAN FORCES REACH THE ENGLISH CHANNEL AT NOYELLES,</div> <div> FRANCE AND SPLIT THE ALLIED FORCES IN HALF.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN TANKS THAT SWEPT ACROSS FRANCE, REACH ABBEVILLE, </div> <div> FRANCE.</div> <div>                                *     GERMANY ATTACKS THE ISLAND OF CRETE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 21, 1940          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AUTHROIZES THE FBI TO CONDUCT </div> <div> WARRENTLESS ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE OF PERSONS</div> <div> SUSPECTED OF SUBVERSION OR ESPIONAGE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 25, 1940          GERMAN TROOPS CAPTURE THE ENGLISH CHANNEL PORT CITY </div> <div> OF BOULOGNE, FRANCE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 26, 1940             *     GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE THE CITY OF CALAIS, FRANCE.</div> <div>         *     THE BRITISH FORCES COMMANDED BY LORD GOTT, RETREATING</div> <div> FROM BELGIUM, RETREAT TO DUNKIRK, ON THE NORTH SEA</div> <div> OF FRANCE.</div> <div>                                      *     BRITIAN SENDS EVERYTHING THAT WILL FLOAT TO EVACUATE</div> <div> THE FRENCH AND BRITISH TROOPS TRAPPED AT DUNKIRK.</div> <div> CALLED OPERATION "DYNAMO".</div> <div>         *     AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION (EXTERMINATION) CAMP </div> <div> (AUSCHWITZ I) IS ESTABLISHED IN POLAND.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 28, 1940          THE ISOLATED BELGIUM ARMY, COMMANDED BY KING LEOPOLD</div> <div> SURRENDERS HIS ARMY AND BELGIUM TO THE GERMANS.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 29, 1940          THE ALLIES CAPTURE THE PORT CITY OF NARVIK, NORWAY.</div> <div> DUE TO THE EVENTS IN FRANCE, IT WAS INADVISABLE FOR THE</div> <div> ALLIES TO CONTINUE THE NORWEGIAN CAMPAIGN.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 1940                  *     728 POLISH POLITICAL PRISONERS ARRIVE AT AUSCHWITZ CAMP.</div> <div>         *     BELGIUM HAD TRUSTED THE BANK OF FRANCE WITH MORE THAN</div> <div> 20 TONS OF GOLD. </div> <div>         *     253 FINNISH PRISONERS WERE ALLOWED TO RETURN HOME.</div> <div> THEY WERE HELD AT A LABOR CAMP AT KINTISMALKI BY THE</div> <div> RUSSIANS. 13 PRISONERS DIED AT THE CAMP.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN SUBMAIRNES BEGIN "WOLF-PACKS".</div> <div>         *     BRITIAN INCREASES ESCORT SHIPS TO 375.</div> <div>         *     NEUENGAMME CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR) CAMP IS</div> <div> OPENED IN GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 03, 1940          GERMAN PLANES BOMB PARIS, FRANCE.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 38 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JUNE 04, 1940          THE BRITISH AND FRENCH ARMY WAS SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION</div> <div> AT DUNKIRK. 338,000 SOLDIERS WERE RESCUED BY HUNDRED OF</div> <div> BOATS AND SHIPS FROM BRITIAN. 85 SHIPS WERE PUT OUT OF</div> <div> SERVICE IN THE EVACUATION, 10 SUNK AND 75 DAMAGED.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 05, 1940          GENERAL WEYGAND'S DEFENSIVE LINE AT THE SOMME RIVER</div> <div> WAS BROKEN BY THE LINE IN 3 PLACES. THE FRENCH ARMY</div> <div> WAS PUSHED BACK.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 08, 1940             *     THE ALLIES ABANDON NARVIK, NORWAY AND THE BRITISH LOSE </div> <div> THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER GLORIOUS.  </div> <bR> <div> JUNE 09, 1940          NORWAY ARMY AGREES TO ARMISTICE AND SURRENDERS TO</div> <div> GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 10, 1040             *     ITALY  DECLARES WAR ON FRANCE AND GREAT BRITIAN. </div> <div> MUSSOLINI JOINS THE WAR ON GERMANY'S SIDE. ITALIAN </div> <div> TROOPS ATTACK ACROSS THE FRENCH FRONTIER. THE ITALIAN </div> <div> ARMY HAS 1,500,000 MEN.</div> <div>                                *     THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT ABANDONED PARIS FOR TOURS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 13, 1940          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNS 1.38 MILLION DEFENSE BILL.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 14, 1940           FRANCE SURRENDERS TO GERMANS. GERMAN TROOPS MARCH</div> <div> INTO PARIS. NO ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DEFEND PARIS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 15, 1940             *     VERDUN, FRANCE, FALLS TO THE GERMANS.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN TROOPS ADVANCE TO THE MAGINOT LINE TO TAKE IT</div> <div> FROM THE REAR.</div> <div>                                 *     THE FRENCH ARMY IS UNABLE TO RALLY ON THE LOIRE RIVER.</div> <div>         *     RUSSIA BEGINS THE OCCUPATION OF THE BALTIC STATES OF</div> <div> LITHUANIA, LATVIA, AND ESTONIA.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 16, 1940          FRENCH PREMIER REYNAUD RESIGNS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 17, 1940          MARSHAL PETAIN SUCCEEDED REYNAUD AS FRANCE'S PREMIER</div> <div> AND ASKED FOR AN ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY. MARSHAL PETAIN</div> <div> DISSOLVED THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 18, 1940             *     HITLER AND MUSSOLINI MEET IN MUNICH, GERMANY.</div> <div>         *     THE GERMANS ARRIVE IN DINARD, FRANCE, ALONG THE COAST,</div> <div> PREPARING FOR A POSSIBLE INVASION OF BRITIAN. MISS</div> <div> JEANNIE ROUSSEAU, FRENCH SPY TO BE, LIVES IN DINARD.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 39 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JUNE 20, 1940          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT APPOINTS FORMER REPUBLICAN,</div> <div> HENRY STINSON AS SECRETARY OF THE ARMY AND FRANK KNOX </div> <div> AS SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. THEY JOIN HULL, MORGENTHAU, </div> <div> AND HOPKINS AS THE "WAR CABINET".</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 22, 1940          FRANCE SURRENDERS AND SIGNS AN ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY.</div> <div> THE ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED IN THE SAME RAILWAY CAR IN WHICH</div> <div> GERMANY SIGNED THEIR SURRENDER ARMISTICE WITH FRANCE</div> <div> AFTER WORLD WAR I. MARSHAL PETAIN HEADS THE VICHY</div> <div> PRO-NAZI FRENCH GOVERNMENT.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 23, 1940             *     ADOLF HITLER MAKES A TOUR OF PARIS, FRANCE.</div> <div>         *     GENERAL CHARLES DEGAULLE, WHO FLED TO ENGLAND WHEN</div> <div> FRANCE SURRENDERED, HELD A RADIO BROADCAST IN LONDON,</div> <div> PROCLAIMING A FREE FRENCH GOVERNMENT IN EXILE.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 24, 1940           FRANCE SIGNS AN ARMISTICE WITH ITALY.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 25, 1940             *     GERMAN TROOPS OCCUPY NORTHERN FRANCE AND THE FRENCH</div> <div> ATLANTIC COAST.</div> <div>         *     ITALY OCCUPIES FRANCE BUT ONLY THAT AREA THAT WAS TAKEN</div> <div> IN THE ATTACK ON FRANCE.</div> <div>                                *     OTHER SMALLER FRENCH FLEETS WERE IN BRITISH PORTS, PER</div> <div> GREAT BRITIAN'S REQUEST IN AGREEMENT FOR A SEPERATE PEACE</div> <div> FOR FRANCE.</div> <div>                                *     THE FRENCH ADMIRAL AT ALEXANDERIA, EGYPT, COMPLIED WITH</div> <div> A BRITISH REQUEST AND DEMILITARIZE HIS SHIPS.</div> <div>         *     THE FRENCH FLEET AT TOULON, PER THE ARMISTICE, WAS NOT TO </div> <div> BE USED BY GERMANY OR ITALY DURING THE WAR.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 27, 1940          ROMANIA WAS FORCED TO SURRENDER BESSARABIA AND NORTHERN</div> <div> BUCOVINA TO RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 28, 1940             *      GREAT BRITIAN RECOGNIZES GENERAL CHARLES De GAULLE AS </div> <div> FREE FRENCH LEADER.</div> <div>                                *     FRANCE TRANSFERED ITS OWN GOLD TO DAKAR IN FRENCH WEST      </div> <div> AFRICA. BELGIUM ASKED THE SAME FOR ITS GOLD, WHICH WAS DONE.</div> <div>         *     THE AMERICAN CONGRESS PASSES THE ALIEN REGISTRATION ACT</div> <div> (THE SMITH ACT) CRIMINALIZES CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROW THE</div> <div> GOVERNMENT, REQUIRES RESIDENT ALIENS TO REGISTER.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 40 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JULY 1940               ADOLF EICHMANN'S MADAGASCAR PLAN IS PRESENTED TO HITLER.</div> <div> PROPOSING TO DEPORT ALL EUROPEAN JEWS TO THE ISLAND OF</div> <div> MANAGASCAR, OFF THE COAST OF AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 01, 1940          GERMAN U-BOATS (SUBMARINES) ATTACK MERCHANT SHIPS IN</div> <div> THE ATLANTIC.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 03, 1940          THE FRENCH ADMIRAL AT ORAN, ALGERIA, REFUSED TERMS FROM</div> <div> BRITIAN AND WAS ATTACKED. THE FRENCH BATTLESHIP BRETAGNE</div> <div> WAS SUNK, THE PROVENCE AND DUNKERQUE WERE DRIVEN ASHORE.</div> <div> THE STRASBOURG AND 5 FRENCH DESTROYERS ESCAPED TO TOULON.</div> <div> BRITIAN ALSO ATTACKS FRENCH FLEET AT MERS-EL-KEBIR. </div> <bR> <div> JULY 05, 1940          SOUTHERN FRANCE IS OCCUPIED BY THE FRENCH VICHY</div> <div> GOVERNMENT, A PUPPET STATE, THAT WAS TO BE NETURAL</div> <div> AGAINST THE WAR WITH GREAT BRITIAN. THE FRENCH AND BELGIUM</div> <div> GOLD IN DAKAR WAS RETURNED BY THE VICHY GOVERNMENT</div> <div> AND SENT TO THE REICHSBANK IN A SALE FORCED BY GERMANY. </div> <div> THE VICHY FRENCH GOVERNMENT BREAKS OFF DIPLOMATIC </div> <div> RELATIONS WITH GREAT BRITIAN.</div> <bR> <div> JUYL 06, 1940          1ST OPERATIONAL GERMAN SUBMARINE BASE AT LORIENT,</div> <div> FRANCE. </div> <bR> <div> JULY 10, 1940          GERMANY'S AIR FORCE BEGAN "THE 1ST BATTLE OF BRITIAN" </div> <div> WITH MASS BOMBING RAIDS. HERMANN GOERING, COMMANDER OF</div> <div> THE GERMAN AIRFORCE, CONVINCED HITLER THAT THE BRITISH</div> <div> CAN BE BOMBED INTO SURRENDER. HE SENT 3,400 GERMAN PLANES</div> <div> AGAINST ONLY 620 BRITISH PLANES IN A SERIES OF HEAVY ATTACKS</div> <div> ON BRITISH DOCKS, PORTS, AND SHIPS. BRITIAN HELD ON.</div> <div> GOERING'S AIR WAR OVER BRITIAN LASTED FOR 3 MONTHS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 11, 1940             *     THE FRENCH THIRD REPUBLIC WAS ABOLISHED AND MARSHAL </div> <div> PETAIN BECAME CHIEF OF STATE OF UNOCCUPIED FRANCE AND </div> <div> HAD HIS CAPITAL AT VICHY, FRANCE.</div> <div>                                *     GENERAL CHARLES DeGAULLE ESCAPED TO BRITIAN AND BEGAN TO</div> <div> ORGANIZE THE ANTI-GERMAN FREE FRENCH MOVEMENT.</div> <div>                                *     ALL FRENCH COLONIES OVERSEAS CAME UNDER THE VICHY</div> <div> GOVERNMENTS CONTROL.     </div> <bR> <div> JULY 17, 1940          THE 1ST ANTI-JEWISH MEASURES ARE STARTED IN VICHY FRANCE.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 41 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JULY 20, 1940          ITALY'S 1ST NAVAL ACTION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND</div> <div> RESULTED IN ITALY'S FAST CRUISER BARTOLOMEO COLLEONE SUNK</div> <div> BY AUSTRALIAN CRUISER SYDNEY.  </div> <bR> <div> JULY 23, 1940          LITHUANIA, ESTONIA, AND LATVIA SURRENDERS TO RUSSIA. </div> <bR> <div> JULY 30, 1940          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNS "THE ACT OF HAVANA" TO PREVENT</div> <div> GERMAN TAKEOVER OF COLONIES.</div> <bR> <div> AUGUST 1940             *     GROSS-ROSEN CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR) CAMP IS OPENED</div> <div> IN POLAND. AVERAGE CAMP POPULATION WAS 25,000 PRISONERS.</div> <div> MOST OF THE PRISONERS WORKED IN ONE OF THE 70 SUBCAMPS.</div> <div> ONE CAMP WAS IN A TOWN CALLED BRUNNLITZ, CZECHOSLOVAKIA.</div> <div> THIS IS WHERE THE JEWS OF "SCHINDLER'S LIST" SURVIVED THE WAR.</div> <div>                                   *     AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND BRITIAN'S PRIME</div> <div> MINISTERCHURCHILL MET ABOARD THE H.M.S. PRINCE OF </div> <div> WALES WHERE THEIR MEETING PRODUCED A PLEDGE TO</div> <div> JOIN FORCES TO DEFEAT NAZI GERMANY. </div> <bR> <div> AUG. 05,  1940          ITALY INVADES BRITISH SOMALILAND IN EAST AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 08, 1940          ROMANIA INTRODUCES ANTI-JEWISH MEASURES RESTRICTING</div> <div> EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT.</div> <div> "ROMANIANIZATION" OF JEWISH BUSINESSES BEGIN.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 13, 1940          GERMAN BOMBING OFFENSIVE AGAINST AIRFIELDS AND FACTORIES</div> <div> IN GREAT BRITIAN.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 15, 1940          GERMANY'S AIR FORCE BEGAN "THE 2ND BATTLE FOR BRITIAN"</div> <div> IN AN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE R.A.F. (ROYAL AIR FORCE) BY</div> <div> ATTACKS ON THE AIR BASES AND DAYLIGHT BOMBING RAIDS OVER</div> <div> BRITIAN. THE GERMANS FAIL TO BRING BRITIAN TO SURRENDER.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 17, 1940          HITLER DECLARES THE TOTAL BLOCKADE OF THE BRITISH ISLES</div> <div> TO ALL SHIPPING.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 19, 1940          ITALY COMPLETES CONQUEST OF BRITISH SOMALILAND AND</div> <div> OCCUPIES THE COUNTRY.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 20, 1940          RUSSIAN KGB AGENT RAMON MERCADEZ ASSASSINATES LEON</div> <div> TROTSKY IN MEXICO.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 23 - 24, 1940          1ST GERMAN BOMBING RAIDS ON CENTRAL LONDON, ENGLAND. </div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 42 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> AUG. 25 - 26, 1940          1ST BRITISH BOMBING RAIDS ON BERLIN, GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 27, 1940          AMERICA MAKES DEAL WITH BRITIAN - DESTROYERS FOR </div> <div> BRITISH FLEET AND PILOT TRAININGAND AMERICA RECEIVES</div> <div> MILITARY BASES.</div> <bR> <div> SEPTEMBER 1940             *     HUNGARY SEIZED TRANSYLVANIA FROM ROMANIA.</div> <div>         *     BULGARIA SEIZED DOBRUJA, ROMANIA.</div> <div>                                  *     KING CARLOS OF ROMANIA ABDICATED AND FLED INTO EXILE AND</div> <div>               GENERAL ION ANTONESCU, LEADER OF THE FACIST IRON GUARD,</div> <div> BECAME DICTATOR OF ROMANIA.</div> <div>         *     MISS JEANNIE ROUSSEAU, FROM DINARD, FRANCE, BECAME A</div> <div> FRENCH SPY FOR THE ALLIES. SHE WAS A FRENCH TRANSLATOR </div> <div> FOR THE GERMANS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 03, 1940             *     HITLER PLANS OPERATION "SEALION", THE INVASION OF GREAT</div> <div> BRITIAN.</div> <div>                                 *     GREAT BRITIAN ACQUIRED 50 SHIPS FROM AMERICA DUE TO SHIPS</div> <div> LOST WHEN EVACUATING BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS FROM</div> <div> DUNKIRK. IN RETURN FOR THE SHIPS, AMERICA RECEIVED A 99 YEAR</div> <div> LEASE FOR NAVAL AND AIR BASES FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO THE</div> <div> CARIBBEAN.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 07, 1940          GERMANY'S AIR FORCE BEGAN "THE 3RD BATTLE FOR BRITIAN".</div> <div> CALLED THE "BLITZ" WITH LONDON, CAPITAL OF BRITIAN, AS THE</div> <div> TARGET. WITH DAY AND NIGHT RAIDS TO DEMORALIZE THE NATION.</div> <div> GERMANY'S AIR FORCE SUFFERED HEAVY LOSSES AND HITLER</div> <div> POSTPONED OPERATION SEA LION, THE INVASION OF BRITIAN.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 13, 1940          ITALY'S MARSHAL RODOLFO GRAZIANI STARTS TO ADVANCE FROM</div> <div> LIBYA AND INVADES EGYPT.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 15, 1940          MASSIVE GERMAN BOMBING RAIDS ON THE CITIES OF LONDON,</div> <div> SOUTHAMPTON, BRISTOL, CARDIFF, LIVERPOOL, AND MANCHESTER,</div> <div> GREAT BRITIAN.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 16, 1940          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNS THE 1ST PEACE TIME CONSCRIPTION</div> <div> (DRAFT) IN AMERICA WHICH BECAME THE SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 17, 1940          ITALIAN TROOPS OCCUPIED SIDI BARRANI WHERE THEY STOPPED</div> <div> TO BRING UP SUPPLIES. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 43 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> SEP. 23 - 25, 1940          BRITISH AND FREE FRENCH FORCES ATTEMPT UNSUCCESSFULLY</div> <div> TO CAPTURE THE CITY OF DAKAR.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 27, 1940          GERMANY, ITALY, AND JAPAN SIGN THE BERLIN PACT OR THE</div> <div> TRIPARITE (AXIS) PACT. JAPAN BECOMES ONE OF THE AXIS POWERS.</div> <bR> <div> OCTOBER 1940             *     VICHY FRANCE PASSES ANTI-JEWISH LAWS. FROM 1941 TO 1944</div> <div> 76,000 FRENCH JEWS ( 12,000 WERE CHILDREN) WERE DEPORTED </div> <div> TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS. ABOUT 2,500 SURVIVED.</div> <div>                                    *     BRITISH TROOPS OCCUPIED THE GREEK ISLAND OF CRETE. </div> <div>         *     GERMAN SUBMAIRNES RECORD AVERAGE SINKING OF 60,000</div> <div> TONS PER MONTH PER SUBMARINE.</div> <div>                                *     YUGOSLAVIA SIGNED A TRADE TREATY WITH GERMANY BUT</div> <div> PRINCE PAUL, THE REGENT,  REFUSED TO PERMIT THE ENTRY </div> <div> OF GERMAN TROOPS. YUGOSLAVIA WAS LESS WILLING TO BOW</div> <div> TO GERMANY.</div> <div>         *     360,000 JEWS WERE PLACED IN THE GHETTO CREATED IN </div> <div> WARSAW, POLAND. </div> <bR> <div> OCT. 03, 1940          VICHY FRANCE PASSES IT'S OWN VERSION OF THE NUREMBERG </div> <div> LAWS.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 07, 1940          GERMANY INVADES ROMAINA (34,000 JEWISH POPULATION).</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 12, 1940          HITLER POSTPONES OPERATION "SEALION" UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1941.</div> <div>              HITLER PLANS TO INVADE RUSSIA, IN SPITE OF HIS PACT WITH</div> <div> STALIN.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 18 - 19, 1940          A GERMAN "WOLF-PACK" OF 6 SUBMARINES SINK'S 36 OF 79 SHIPS</div> <div> IN 2 CONVOYS.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 22, 1940          THE GERMANS  DEPORT 29,000 JEWS FROM BADEN, THE SAAR, </div> <div> AND ALSACE-LORRAINE INTO VICHY FRANCE.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 28, 1940          ITALY INVADES GREECE ALONG THE EPIRUS COAST THROUGH</div> <div> ALBANIA, WITH A SECONDARY ATTACK FROM KORISTA, ALBANIA</div> <div> THREATENING SALONIKA AND ATHENS, GREECE.  GREECE HAS AN</div> <div> ARMY OF 750,000 MEN AND WAS AIDED BY THE BRITISH.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 30, 1940              *     GERMANY'S AIR WAR FOR BRITIAN ENDS AFTER 57 DAY BLITZ </div> <div> ON LONDON. BRITIAN LOOSES 832 FIGHTERS AND GERMANY</div> <div> LOOSES 668 FIGHTERS PLUS 600 BOMBERS. THIS WAS HITLER'S</div> <div> FIRST DEFEAT.</div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 44 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> OCT. 30, 1940             *     GREAT BRITIAN BECOMES THE "FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE"</div> <div>         *     UNITED STATES AID TO BRITIAN BECOMES VITAL - "THE </div> <div> ATLANTIC LIFELINE".</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 03, 1940          NIGHTLY GERMAN AIR RAIDS ON LONDON FINALLY STOPPED AND</div> <div> WAS SHIFTED TO OUTLYING INDUSTRIAL CENTERS.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 05, 1940             *     FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT IS RE-ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF THE</div> <div> UNITED STATES. HE DEFEATS WENDELL WILLKIE.</div> <div>                                *     THE ARMED MERCHANT CRUISER JERVIS BAY, ESCORTING A</div> <div> CONVOY 0F 38 SHIPS, WAS ATTACKED AND SUNK BY THE GERMAN</div> <div> POCKET BATTLESHIP SCHEER. WHILE THE BATTLE WAS BEING</div> <div> FOUGHT, 32 OF THE 38 CONVOY SHIPS ESCAPED</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 10 - 11, 1940          THE BRITISH FLEET ATTACKS THE ITALIAN FLEET AT TARANTO BAY,</div> <div> ITALY. PLANES FROM THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER ILLUSTRIOUS</div> <div> DAMAGED 3 ITALIAN BATTLESHIPS AND 2 CRUISERS.  </div> <bR> <div> NOV. 14 - 15, 1940          COVENTERY, GREAT BRITIAN, WAS HEAVELY BOMBED BY GERMAN</div> <div> PLANES.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 15, 1940           THE WARSAW GHETTO IN POLAND CONTAINING OVER 400,000 JEWS</div> <div> IS SEALED OFF FROM THE WORLD.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 20, 1940          HUNGARY FORMALLY JOINS THE AXIS AND WAS OCCUPIED BY</div> <div> GERMAN TROOPS.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 22, 1940          THE GREEK ARMY DEFEATS THE ITALIAN 9TH ARMY AT KORISTA,</div> <div> GREECE, AND BEGIN TO ADVANCE INTO ALBANIA.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 23, 1940             *     ROMANIA FORMALLY JOINS THE AXIS.</div> <div>         *     SLOVAKIS FORMALLY JOINS THE AXIS.</div> <bR> <div> DECEMBER 1940          AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WENT ON A 2 WEEK</div> <div>                     VACATION CRUISE IN THE CARIBBEAN ABOARD THE CRUISER</div> <div>                     U.S.S. TUSCALOOSA.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 06, 1940          GREEK TROOPS ROUTE THE ITALIANS, PUSH INTO ALBANIA     </div> <div> AND CAPTURE THE CITY OF PORT EDDA.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 45 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1940</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DEC. 09, 1940          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, WHILE ON HIS 2 WEEK CRUISE, </div> <div> RECEIVED A LETTER FROM BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON</div> <div> CHURCHILL, DETAILING THE MILITARY SITUATION IN</div> <div> GREAT BRITIAN AND ACROSS EUROPE. HE STATED THAT</div> <div> BRITIAN WAS RUNNING OUT OF MONEY TO PAY FOR WAR</div> <div> GOODS AFTER FIGHTING GERMANY FOR A YEAR, HE</div> <div> NEEDED AMERICA'S HELP.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 09 - 10, 1940           THE BRITISH ARMY BEGIN THEIR WESTERN DESERT COUNTER-</div> <div> OFFENSIVE      IN NORTH AFRICA AGAINST THE ITALIANS.</div> <div>               BRITISH GENERAL SIR ARCHIBALD WAVELL ATTACKS WITH A</div> <div> SMALL ARMORED FORCE AGAINST THE ITALIAN FORCES AT SIDI</div> <div> BARRANI. BRITISH FORCES SIEZED BUQ BUQ AND CUT THE LINE </div> <div> OF THE ITALIANS RETREAT AND DESTROY 5 ITALIAN DIVISIONS.</div> <div> GENERAL WAVELL'S BRITISH FORCES  ENTER LIBYA.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> DEC. 11, 1940          SIDI BARRANI WAS CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH. BRITISH ARMORED</div> <div> FORCES ADVANCED TO SOLLUM.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 16, 1940          SOLLUM WAS CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH. GENERAL WAVELL</div> <div> PRESSED THE RETREATING ITALIANS.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 17, 1940          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PROPOSES THE LEND-LEAST ACT.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 20, 1940          THE 1ST PRISONERS ARRIVE AT BREENDONCK CONCENTRATION </div> <div> CAMP IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM. MADE TO RECEIVE JEWS AND</div> <div> POLITICAL PRISONERS BEFORE THEIR TRANSFER TO GERMANY.</div> <div> IT HELD FROM 30 TO 600 PRISONERS. TORTURES, HANGINGS,</div> <div> AND SHOOTINGS WERE COMMON</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 29 - 30, 1940             *     LONDON WAS AGAIN NOT SPARED BY THE GERMAN AIR FORCE</div> <div> AND WAS THE TARGET OF AN INCENDIARY (FIRE) BOMB RAID.</div> <div> LONDON WAS DEVESTATED BUT STILL SURVIVED.</div> <div>         *     UNITED STATES BECOMES THE "ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY".</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                               </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 46 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JANUARY 1941             *     BRITISH FEMALE PILOT AMY JOHNSON (AMERICA'S VERSION OF</div> <div> AMELIA EARHART) DIES WHILE FERRYING A NEW PLANE TO THE</div> <div> FRONT.</div> <div>         *     ROMAINA INSTITUTES A PROGRAM THAT RESULTS IN OVER</div> <div> 2,000 JEWS KILLED.</div> <div>         *     MISS JEANNIE ROUSSEAU, FROM FRANCE,  WAS ARRESTED BY</div> <div> THE GERMAN GESTAPO AS A SPTY AND WAS HELD IN RENNES</div> <div> PRISON. A GERMAN ARMY TRIBUNAL EXAMINED HER CASE</div> <div> AND SHE WAS RELEASED. HER PUNISHMENT WAS TO LEAVE THE</div> <div> FRENCH COASTAL AREA. SHE WENT TO PARIS AND BECAME A</div> <div> TRANSLATOR FOR THE FRENCH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WHO</div> <div> MET REGULARLY WITH THE GERMAN COMMANDER'S STAFF</div> <div> BASED AT THE HOTEL MAJESTIC.</div> <div>         *     MR. ALEKSANDRAS LILEIKIS, THE LITHUANIAN CHIEF OF THE</div> <div> SECURITY POLICE FROM 1941 TO 1944, IN VILNIUS , CAPITAL OF</div> <div>                      LITHUANIA, WHILE UNDER NAZI OCCUPATION, WAS RESPONSIBLE</div> <div> FOR SIGNING ORDERS FOR SCORES OF JEWISH MEN, WOMEN, AND</div> <div> CHILDREN TO DEATH BY GUNFIRE BY NAZIS AT EXECUTION PITS </div> <div> IN THE WOODED HAMLET OF PANERIAI, SEVERAL MILES FROM</div> <div> VILNIUS.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 03, 1941               BRITISH FORCES CAPTURE BARDIA.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 06, 1941               PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GIVES FOUR FREEDOMS SPEECH TO</div> <div> CONGRESS - (SPEECH, WORSHIP, FROM WANT, AND FEAR).</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 10, 1941               GERMAN PLANES BOMB THE 10TH FLIEGERKORPS ON THE ISLAND</div> <div> OF SICILY.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 16, 1941               GERMANY ATTEMPTS TO BOMB THE ISLAND OF MALTA INTO </div> <div> RUBBLE.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 19, 1941               BRITISH FORCES BEGIN EAST AFRICA CAMPAIGN AGAINST</div> <div> ITALIAN FORCE AND TO RESTORE HAILE SALASSIE AS EMPEROR</div> <div> OF ETHIOPIA.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 20, 1941               PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S 3RD INAUGURAL PRESIDENTIAL PARADE.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 21, 1941               BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN FORCES CAPTURE TOBRUK, LIBYA,</div> <div> IN NORTH AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 30, 1941               BRITISH FORCES CAPTURE DERNA, LIBYA. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 47 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JAN. 31, 1941               1ST AMERICAN TROOPS ARRIVE AT ST. JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND.</div> <bR> <div> FEBRUARY 1941          THE 1ST 8 MONTHS OF THE BOMBING RAIDS ON BRITIAN, </div> <div> CIVILIAN CASUALTIES WERE 41,000 KILLED AND 66,000 WOUNDED. </div> <bR> <div> FEB. 07, 1941               ITALIAN FORCES MAKE A LAST STAND AT BENGHAZI BUT WERE</div> <div> DEFEATED BY THE BRITISH AND THE CITY OF BENGHAZI WAS</div> <div> CAPTURED.</div> <div> TRAPPED ITALIAN ARMY SURRENDERS TO THE BRITISH AT</div> <div> BEDAFOMM, LIBYA.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 08, 1941               GENERAL WAVELL'S BRITISH FORCES ARRIVE AT EL AGHELIA, </div> <div> LIBYA.</div> <div> WITH THE CONQUEST OF LIBYA.  THE BRITISH CAN NOW </div> <div> CONCENTRATE ON ELIMINATING THE ITALIAN FORCES IN ITALIAN</div> <div> EAST AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 10, 1941               RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE DEFECTOR WALTER KRIVITSKY FOUND </div> <div> DEAD OF A GUNSHOT WOUND IN A WASHINGTON HOTEL. THE </div> <div> POLICE RULE HIS DEATH A SUICIDE.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 11, 1941                   *     BRITISH FORCES FROM THE SUDAN INVADE ERITREA, ETHIOPIA.</div> <div>         *     BRITISH FORCES FROM KENYA CAPTURES ITALIAN SOMALILAND.</div> <div>                                *  BRITISH TROOPS FORCE BACK THE ITALIAN TROOPS IN ANGLO-</div> <div> EGYPTIAN SUDAN AND IN KENYA.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 12, 1941               GERMAN GENERAL ERWIN ROMMEL ARRIVES IN TRIPOLI, LIBYA,      </div> <div> TO TAKE COMMAND OF THE NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 14, 1941               THE 1ST UNITS OF THE GERMAN "AFRIKA CORPS" ARRIVE IN </div> <div> NORTH AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 22, 1941               430 JEWS ARE DEPORTED FROM AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS,</div> <div> AFTER A DUTCH NAZI IS KILLED BY JEWS.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 28, 1941               THE GERMAN REICHS KOMMANDANT SEYSS-INQUART IN HOLLAND,</div> <div> PROCLAIMES AN ORDINANCE FOR THE FORCED EMPLOYMENT OF</div> <div> DUTCH CITIZENS WORKING IN NAZI GERMAND AND OCCUPIED</div> <div> TERRITORIES. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 48 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MARCH 1941                  *     THE ITALIAN FORCES REORGANIZED AND WERE REINFORCED BY A</div> <div> GERMAN TANK FORCE (THE AFRIKA CORPS) COMMANDER BY</div> <div> GENERAL ERWIN ROMMEL ALSO KNOWN AS "THE DESERT FOX."</div> <div>                                  *     HITLER'S COMMISSAR ORDER - AUTHORIZES EXECUTION OF ANYONE</div> <div> BEIGN A COMMUNIST OFFICAL IN TERRITORIES ABOUT TO BE SEIZED</div> <div> FROM THE RUSSIANS.</div> <div>                                     *     THE KRAKOW GHETTO IN  POLAND IS CREATED, CONTAINING </div> <div> 70,000 JEWS IS AND SEALED OFF FROM THE WORLD.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 01, 1941             *     GESTAPO LEADER HEINRICH HIMMLER MAKES HIS 1ST VISIT TO</div> <div> AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP IN POLAND, DURING WHICH </div> <div> HE ORDERS COMMANDANT HOSS TO BEGIN MASSIVE EXPANSION,      </div> <div> INCLUDING     A NEW CAMP TO BE BUILT AT NEARBY BIRKENAU THAT</div> <div> CAN HOLD 100,000 PRISONERS.</div> <div>         *     ITALIAN FORCES STOP THE GREEKS COUNTER-OFFESNIVE.     </div> <bR> <div> MAR. 02, 1941           BULGARIA SIGNES A TREATY AND FORMALLY JOINS THE AXIS.</div> <div> BULGARIA PERMITTED PASSAGE OF GERMAN TROOPS.</div> <div> GERMANY OCCUPYS BULGARIA (50,000 JEWISH POPULATION).</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 05, 1941           BRITISH FORCES BEGIN ARRIVING IN GREECE WHEN IT BECAME</div> <div> EVIDENT THAT HITLER WAS GOING TO ATTACK.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 07, 1941          GERMAN JEWS ARE ORDERED INTO FORCED LABOR.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 11, 1941          THE U.S. AMERICAN CONGRESS PASSED THE LEND-LEASE ACT,</div> <div> WHICH THE U.S. BEGAN SENDING MUNITIUONS, FOOD, AND OTHER</div> <div> SUPPLIES TO THE ALLIES.  THE NORTH ATLANTIC ROUTES</div> <div> BECOME MOST IMPRTANT.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 16, 1941          BRITISH FORCES LAND AT BERBERA IN BRITISH SOMALILAND.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 20, 1941          BRITISH CONVOY ATTEMPTS TO GET SUPPLIES TO THE BESIEGED</div> <div> TROOPS ON THE ISLAND OF MALTA. GERMAN PLANES STOP THE</div> <div> BRITISH ATTEMPT.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 22, 1941          GYPSY AND AFRICAN-GERMAN CHILDREN ARE EXPELLED FROM</div> <div> PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 24, 1941          AXIS FORCES LAUNCH AN OFFENSIVE IN NORTH AFRICA.  GERMAN</div> <div> GENERAL ROMMEL ATTACKS EL AGHELIA, LIBYA, AND THE BRITISH</div> <div> FORCES RETREAT.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 49 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAR. 25, 1941          PRINCE PAUL OF YUGOSLAVIA SIGNS A TRIPARTITE PACT WITH</div> <div> HITLER TO PERMIT THE PASSAGE OF GERMAN TROOPS. PROTESTS</div> <div> BREAK OUT THROUGH OUT THE COUNTRY.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 26, 1941          THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND GIVES APPROVAL TO REINHARD</div> <div> HEYDRICH "ON THE TASK OF SS MURDER SQUADS" IN POLAND.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 26 - 27, 1941          YUGOSLAVIAN GENERAL DUSHAN SIMOVICH SEIZED THE</div> <div> PRO-AXIS GOVERNMENT IN A BLODLESS COUP D'ETAT AND</div> <div> RENUONCED THE GERMAN PACT. HITLER ORDERS TOTAL</div> <div> DESTRUCTION OF YUGOSLAVIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 28, 1941          THE BRITISH FLEET ATTACKED THE ITALIAN FLEET OFF CAPE</div> <div> MATAPAN.  PLANES FROM BRITISH ARICRAFT CARRIER </div> <div> H.M.S. FORMIDABLE CRIPPLED THE ITALIAN BATTLESHIP VITTORIO</div> <div> VENETO AND THE CRUISER POLA. BRITISH SHIPS SUNK THE CRUISER</div> <div> POLA AND 2 OTHER CRUISERS.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 29, 1941          A "COMMISSARIAT" FOR JEWISH AFFAIRS IS SET UP IN VICHY FRANCE.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 30, 1941          65 AXIS SHIPS IN UNITED STATES PORTS ARE TAKEN INTO</div> <div>  "PROTECTIVE CUSTODY".</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 1941                  *     AN AGREEMENT BY AMERICA WAS REACHED WITH DENMARK</div> <div> TO ESTABLISH BASES ON GREENLAND.</div> <div>         *     THE BRITISH BREAK THE GERMAN SUBMARINE CODES.</div> <div>         *     JEWISH GHETTOS WERE CREATED IN LUBLIN AND RADOM, POLAND.</div> <div>                                *     GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE MARSA-EL-BREGA.</div> <div>         *  GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE AGEDABIA. </div> <bR> <div> APRIL 02, 1941             *     WITH BRITISH TROOPS DISPATCHED TO AID GREECE, THEY                               ABANDONED BENGHAZI, LIBYA. THIS EFFECTS THE BRITISH</div> <div> FORCES STRENGTH IN AFRICA.</div> <div>         *     GERMANS CAPTURE DERNA FROM THE BRITISH.</div> <div>         *     GERMANS CAPTURE BARDIA FROM THE BRITISH.</div> <div>                                *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TRANSFERS 10 COAST GUARD CUTTERS</div> <div> TO BRITISH NAVY.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 03, 1941             *     THE BRITISH ARE PUSHED BACK TO TOBRUK AND DIG IN TO</div> <div> DEFEND THEIR ONLY FOOTHOLD IN LIBYA. THE GERMAN FORCES</div> <div> BYPASS TOBRUK AND ADVANCE TOWARD SOLLUM.</div> <div>         *     A PRO-AXIS REGIME IS ESTABLISHED IN IRAQ.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 50 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> APRIL 03, 1941             *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TRANSFERS 25 % OF PACIFIC FLEET TO</div> <div> ATLANTIC FLEET.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 04, 1941             *     RASCHID ALI BEY GAILANI SEIZED CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT</div> <div> OF IRAQ WHICH THREATENED THE BRITISH AIR FIELDS AND</div> <div> INVITED GERMAN AID.</div> <div>                                *     BRITISH FORCES INVADE IRAQ TO RELIEVE BESIEGED TROOPS.</div> <div>                                   *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ALLOWS BRITISH WARSHIPS TO BE</div> <div> REPAIRED IN THE UNITED STATES.</div> <div>         *     THE SHAH (LEADER) OF IRAN, REZA PAHLAVI, WAS FORCED TO</div> <div> ABDICATE THE THRONE, AND HIS SON BECAME THE NEXT SHAH.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 06, 1941           ADDIS ABABA, CAPITAL OF ETHIOPIA, IS LIBERATED BY EMPEROR</div> <div> HALIE SELASSIE COMMANDING ETHIOPIAN TROOPS ALONG WITH</div> <div> THE BRITISH.  ETHIOPIA IS LIBERATED. ITALIAN FORCES RETREAT</div> <div> TO THE MOUNTAINS OF AMBA-ALAGI.</div> <div>                                *     GERMANY INVADES GREECE ( 77,000 JEWISH POPULATION). </div> <div> THE GREEKS WERE PUSHING THE ITALIANS FURTHER INTO ALBANIA</div> <div> WHEN HITLER INVADED THE BALKANS. HITLER'S PLAN WAS TO</div> <div> PROTECT HIS FLANK WHEN HE INVADED RUSSIA, INSTEAD OF AIDING</div> <div> THE ITALIANS.</div> <div>         *     GERMANY INVADES YUGOSLAVIA (75,000 JEWISH POPULATION).      </div> <div> BRITISH GENERAL WAVELL'S MEN MADE A GALLANT ATTEMPT TO</div> <div> STOP THE GERMANS. KING PETER II GOES INTO EXILE AND STAYS</div> <div> IN ENGLAND DURING THE ENTIRE WAR.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 08, 1941          GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE SALONKIA, GREECE, WHICH ISOLATED</div> <div> THE GREEK FORCES IN THE CITY OF THRACE.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 10, 1941          AMERICA'S ATLANTIC SECURITY ZONE EXTENDED WEST TO 26TH</div> <div> LONGITUDE, INCLUDES GREENLAND AND THE AZORES. AMERICAN</div> <div> NAVY TO SHIFT FROM CONVOYS TO PATROLS.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 11, 1941             *     THE YUGOSLAVIA ARMY WAS KNOCKED OUT OF THE WAR BY THE</div> <div> GERMAN "BLITZKRIEG" ATTACKS.</div> <div>         *     AMERICAN DESTROYER NIBLACK DROPS 3 DEPTH CHARGES AT</div> <div> GERMAN SUBMARINE. THIS BEGINS THE UNDECLARED NAVAL </div> <div> BATTLE FOR THE ATLANTIC.</div> <div>                                *     GERMAN FORCES COMMANDED BY ROMMEL ATTACK BRITISH</div> <div> AND ASUTRALIAN FORCES AT TOBRUK, LIBYA.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 51 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> APRIL 12, 1941             *     BELGRADE, CAPITAL OF YUGOSLAVIA, WAS HEAVLY BOMBED</div> <div> AND OCCUPIED.</div> <div>         *     BRITISH FORCES RETREAT FROM THE CITY OF FLORINA, GREECE</div> <div> WHEN GERMAN FORCES ADVANCED THROUGH THE MONASTIR GAP.</div> <div> THE RETREATING BRITISH FORCES STOPPED AT MOUNT OLYMPUS.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 13, 1941          MATSUOKA SIGN'S THE JAPAN AND RUSSIA NEUTRALITY ACT.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 15, 1941          GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE SOLLUM, BUT THE GERMAN ADVANCE</div> <div> HAD STOPPED (THE GERMAN FORCES WERE EXHAUSTED) AND THE</div> <div> FRONT BECAME INACTIVE.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 17, 1941             *     YUGOSLAVIA SURRENDERS TO GERMANY.</div> <div> YUGOSLAVIA IS RULED BY THE FACIST USTASHE REGIME,</div> <div> A PUPPET GOVERNMENT OF NAZI GERMANY. </div> <div>                                *     BRITISH GENERAL WAVELL'S FORCES BEGIN EVACUATING</div> <div> FROM THE GREECE MAINLAND TO THE ISLAND OF CRETE.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 21, 1941             *      THE GREEK ARMY FIGHTING THE ITALIANS IN ALBANIA HAD TO</div> <div> RETREAT BACK TO GREECE DUE TO HEAVY GERMAN PRESSURE</div> <div> AND SURRENDER.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 23, 1941           GREECE ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD FIGHT ONLY LONG ENOUGH</div> <div> TO COVER THE BRITISH TROOPS EVACUATION.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 27, 1941          GREECE SURRENDERS TO GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 30, 1941          THE LAST ORGANIZED RESISTANCE ENDS ON THE GREEK MAINLAND.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 1941                  *     GERMANY ESTABLISH NACHTIGALL AND ROLAND MILITARY</div> <div> UNITS WITH THE UKRAINIANS.</div> <div>         *     NATZWEILERSTRUTHOF CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR)</div> <div> CAMP IN FRANCE IS OPENED.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 01, 1941             *     MOST OF THE BRITISH FORCES WERE SUCCESSFULLY EVACUATED</div> <div> FROM GREECE.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN ATTACKS ON TOBRUK ARE DRIVEN BACK BY THE BRITISH.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 02, 1941          BRITISH FORCES RELEIVED BESIGED BRITISH TROOPS AT </div> <div> HABBANIYA, IRAQ. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 52 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAY 05, 1941          AMERICAN FBI ARREST AMTORG EMPLOYEE AND RUSSIAN KGB</div> <div> NEW YORK RESIDENT GAIK OVAKIMIAN FOR VIOLATION OF THE</div> <div> FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION ACT.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 07, 1941          BRITIAN CAPTURES GERMAN SUBMAIRNE U-110 AND ITS "ENIGMA"</div> <div> CODING MACHINE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 10, 1041             *     LONDON, GREAT BRITIAN, SUFFERED ITS HEAVIEST AIR RAID</div> <div> BOMBING BY THE GERMAN AIR FORCE.</div> <div>                                *     RUDOLF HESS, A CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF HITLER AND 3RD RANKING</div> <div> NAZI, FLEW TO SCOTLAND ON A PEACE MISSION. HE WANTED</div> <div> TO PERSUADE BRITIAN TO JOIN WITH GERMANY IN A FIGHT</div> <div> AGAINST RUSSIA. HESS'S MISSION UNKNOWN TO HITLER, FAILED.</div> <div> HE WAS HELD PRISONER FOR THE REST OF THE WAR AND AFTER</div> <div> THE WAR HE WAS CONVICTED AS A WAR CRIMINAL.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 11, 1941             *     BRITISH R.A.F. PLANES BOMB HAMBURG, GERMANY.</div> <div>         *     BRITISH R.A.F. PLANES BOMB BERLIN, GERMANY, PROVING</div> <div> GORING'S STATEMENT THAT "ENEMY BOMBS SHALL NEVER</div> <div> FALL ON BERLIN" TO BE FALSE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 14, 1941          3,600 JEWS ARE ARRESTED IN PARIS, FRANCE BY THE GERMANS.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 15, 1941          THE BRITISH BEGIN OPERATION "BREVITY", THE COUNTER-ATTACK</div> <div> IN EGYPT.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 16, 1941          FRENCH VICHY LEADER, MARSHAL PETAIN ISSUES A RADIO </div> <div> BROADCAST APPROVING COLLABORATION WITH GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 19, 1941          THE ITALIAN FORCES SURRENDER TO THE BRITISH IN THE</div> <div> MOUNTAINS OF AMBA-ALAGAI, ETHIOPIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 20, 1941          GERMANY LAUNCHED AN AIRBORNE INVASION OF THE ISLAND</div> <div> OF CRETE. DESPITE HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES, TROOPS POURED  </div> <div> ONTO THE ISLAND. BRITISH SHIPS STOPPED MUCH OF THE GERMAN</div> <div> SEA REINFORCEMENTS BUT LOST 4 CRUISERS AND 4 DESTROYERS</div> <div> SUNK.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 21, 1941             *     GERMAN BATTLESHIP BISMARCK IS SPOTTED IN A NORWAY FJORD.</div> <div>                               *     THE AMERICAN FREIGHTER ROBIN MOOR WAS SUNK BY A GERMAN</div> <div> SUBMARINE.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 53 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAY 24, 1941          THE GERMAN BATTLESHIP BISMARCK, SANK THE BRITISH CRUISER</div> <div> HOOD AND DAMAGED THE BATTLESHIP PRINCE OF WALES IN THE</div> <div> DENMARK STRAIT, BETWEEM ICELAND AND GREENLAND. </div> <bR> <div> MAY 26, 1941          BRITISH CARRIER PLANES SPOTTED AND CRIPPLE THE GERMAN</div> <div> BATTLESHIP BISMARCK OFF THE COAST OF BRAZIL.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 27, 1941             *     BRITISH SHIPS KING GEORGE V,  RODNEY, AND DORSETSHIRE</div> <div> SANK THE GERMAN BATTLESHIP BISMARCK. </div> <div>                                    *     HX-129 CONVOY IS THE 1ST CONVOY TO ESCORTED "FROM </div> <div> END-TO-END" ACROSS THE ATLANITC OCEAN.</div> <div>         *     THE CANADIAN NAVY JOINS IN THE WAR.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 28, 1941          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DECLARES AN UNLIMITED NATIONAL</div> <div> EMERGENCY, STATING AXIS ASSETS WERE SEIZED.</div> <div> HE URGES SHIPBUILDING PROGRAM TO REPLACE GROWING LOSSES. </div> <bR> <div> MAY 29, 1941          BRITISH TROOPS START TO EVACUATE THE ISLAND OF CRETE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 31, 1941             *     THE BRITISH COMPLETE THE EVACUATION OFF OF CRETE AND</div> <div> SURRENDERS THE ISLAND OF CRETE TO THE GERMANS..</div> <div>                                      HALF THE BRITISH TROOPS THAT WERE EVACUATED FROM GREECE</div> <div> WERE KILLED ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE.</div> <div>         *     IRAQ SIGNS AN ARMISTICE WITH BRITIAN. BRITISH FORCES </div> <div> OCCUPY BAGHDAD.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 1941                  *     THE GERMAN AIR RAIDS ON GREAT BRITIAN STOPPED, AS HITLER</div> <div> BEGAN TO COMPLETE PLANS FOR THE INVASION OF RUSSIA.</div> <div>                      BRITISH CASUALTIES TOTALED 147,000 BY THE END OF THE WAR.</div> <div>                        *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ISSUED EXECUTIVE ORDER #8802</div> <div>                     FORBIDDING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY ANY DEFENSE</div> <div>                     CONTRACTORS AND ESTABLISHING THE FAIR EMPLOYMENT</div> <div>                     PRACTICES.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 04, 1941          PRO-ALLIED GOVERNMENT IS INSTALLED IN IRAQ.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 05, 1941          AMERICAN SECRET TRANSFER OF 4,000 MARINES TO ICELAND.</div> <div> THEY RELEIVE BRITISH AND DANISH TROOPS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 06, 1941          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SEIZES 80 FOREIGN MERCHANT SHIPS</div> <div> IN AMERICAN PORTS FOR LEND-LEASE CONVOYS.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 54 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JUNE 08, 1941          THE ALLIES INVADE SYRIA AND LEBANON.</div> <div> BRITISH FORCES ATTACK VICHY FRENCH FORCES IN SYRIA.</div> <div>                                     BRITISH AND FREE FRENCH FORCES INVADED SYRIA FROM </div> <div> PALESTINE,      TRANS-GORDAN, AND IRAQ.  THIS WAS PROVOKED </div> <div> BY THE USAGE OF THE SYRIAN AIRFIELDS BY GERMANY.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> JUNE 10, 1941          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ANNOUNCES THE RECOVERY OF THE</div> <div> LIFEBOATS OF THE AMERICAN FREIGHTER ROBIN MOOR.</div> <div> PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT FREEZES ALL AXIS ASSESTS IN AMERICA.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 11, 1941          300 JEWISH BOYS FROM THE AGES OF 14 TO 19 YEARS OLD WERE </div> <div> SENT TO MAUTHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP IN AUSTRIA WHERE</div> <div> THEY WILL TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GAS CHAMBERS.</div> <div> THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 14, 1941             *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT FREEZES ALL GERMAN AND ITALIAN </div> <div> ASSETS IN AMERICA.</div> <div>         *  BRITISH FORCES DEFEAT VICHY FRENCH FORCES IN SYRIA.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 16, 1941          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ORDERS GERMAN EMBASSYS CLOSED </div> <div> AND EXPLES DIPLOMATS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 20, 1941             *     AMERICAN SUBMARINE O-9 SANK 17 MILES OFF THE COAST OF </div> <div> THE ISLES OF SHOALS, NEW HAMPSHIRE. IT WAS CONDUCTING </div> <div> DEEP-WATRER DIVING TRAILS. 34 NAVY PERSONNEL DIED.</div> <div>                                *     AMERICAN BATTLESHIP TEXAS EVADES GERMAN SUBMARINES.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 21, 1941          HITLER ORDERS GERMAN SUBMARINES NOT TO ATTACK AMERICAN</div> <div> BATTLESHIPS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 22, 1941             *     GERMANY, ITALY, AND ROMANIA DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA.</div> <div>         *     FINLAND ALLOWS GERMAN TROOPS TO ATTACK RUSSIA THROUGH</div> <div> FINLAND IN THE NORTH. GERMANY'S GOAL IS TO CAPTURE THE</div> <div> CITY OF MURMANSK. </div> <div>                                 *     GERMANY INVADES THE WESTERN BORDERS OF THE UKRAINE AND</div> <div> BELORUSSIA, RUSSIA (3,000,000 JEWISH POPULATION). </div> <div> RUSSIA HAS 2,000,000 MEN ARMY AGAINST GERMANY'S 3,500,000 </div> <div> MEN INVASION ARMY. GERMANY USES 2,400 TANKS IN THE INVASION,</div> <div> CALLED "OPERATION  BARBAROSA".  </div> <bR> <div> JUNE 24, 1941          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT EXTENDS LEND-LEASE AID TO RUSSIA.</div> <div> HE DOES NOT INVOKE THE NEUTRALITY ACT. HE SENDS</div> <div> MR. HARRY HOPKINS TO MOSCOW TO MEET WITH STALIN.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 55 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JUNE 25, 1941          RUSSIA STARTED BOMBING FINNISH CITIES FOR ALLOWING GERMAN</div> <div> TROOPS TO ATTACK RUSSIA THROUGH FINLAND.</div> <div>                               FINLAND DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 26, 1941             *     GERMAN FORCES ADVANCE TOWARDS THE RUSSIAN CITY OF MINSK.</div> <div> MUD HAD SLOWED THE GERMAN ATTACKS AND SOME OF THE</div> <div> RUSSIAN ARMY HAD ESCAPED.</div> <div>         *     FINLAND DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 27, 1941          HUNGARY DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 28, 1941          GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE THE CITY OF MINSK, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 29, 1941          AMERICA'S FBI ARREST 29 GERMAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE </div> <div> AGENTS, CRIPPLING GERMANY'S ESPIONAGE OPERATIONS IN </div> <div> THE UNITED STATES.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 29 - 30, 1941          ROMANIAN TROOPS CONDUCT A PROGRAM AGAINST JEWS IN THE</div> <div> TOWN OF JASSY, KILLING 10,000.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 30, 1941             *     GERMAN TROOPS CAPTURE THE CITY OF LVIV,  RUSSIA.</div> <div>         *     FINNISH FORCES JOINED GERMAN FORCES IN ATTACKING RUSSIA.</div> <div> FINLAND RECAPTURES ALL LOST FINNISH TERRITORY THEY LOST</div> <div> RUSSIA BACK IN 1939 AND 1940.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 1941                  *     GERMAN FORCES ATTACK SMOLENSK, RUSSIA, WITH VERY HEAVY</div> <div> FIGHTING.</div> <div>                                 *     GERMAN GENERAL GUDERIAN TRIED TO ADVANCE WITH A TANK</div> <div> DIVISION TOWARD MOSCOW, THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL BUT HITLER</div> <div> CHANGED HIS MIND AND SENT THE TANKS TO AID GENERAL</div> <div> RUNDSTEDT'S ARMY THREATENING KIEV, RUSSIA.</div> <div>         *     GERMANS ESTABLISH GHETTOS IN KNOVO IN LITHUANUA AND </div> <div> MINSK, VITEBSK, AND ZHITOMER IN RUSSIA.</div> <div>         *     THE VICHY FRENCH GOVERNMENT SIEZED JEWISH OWNED PROPERTY.</div> <div>         *     AMERICA CROSSED THE THRESHOLD FROM PEACE TO WAR AS THE     </div> <div> WAR WIDENED IN EURPOE AND THE ATLANTIC LIFELINE CAME</div> <div> UNDER ATTACK AND PUBLIC OPINION CHANGED TO FAVOR MORE</div> <div> INTERVENTION AND DEFENSE PRODUCTION PULLED AMERICA</div> <div> OUT OF THE DEPRESSION.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 56 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JULY 1941                  *     AMERICAN GENERAL BREHON SOMERVELL WAS PICKED BY GENERAL</div> <div> GEORGE C. MARSHALL, ROSSEVELT'S ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF,  TO FIND</div> <div> A LOCATION IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AREA TO BUILD THE NEW WAR</div> <div> DEPARTMENT. IT WOULD BE A FIVE SIDED (PENTAGON) SHAPED</div> <div> BUILDING. </div> <bR> <div>              *     SS GENERAL HEINRICH HIMMLER ORDERS AUSCHWITZ CAMP</div> <div> COMMANDANT HOSS TO BERLIN AND TELLS HIM THAT "HILTER HAS</div> <div> ORDERED THE "FINAL SOLUTION OF THE JEWISH QUESTION" AND</div> <div> AUSCHWITZ CAMP HAS BEEN CHOSEN FOR THIS PURPOSE".      </div> <bR> <div> JULY 03, 1941          RUSSIAN LEADER, STALIN, CALLS FOR SCORCHED EARTH POLICY</div> <div> FIGHTING AGAINST THE GERMANS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 05, 1941           GERMAN GENERAL BOCK'S FORCES ENCIRCLED A RUSSIAN ARMY</div> <div> IN THE CITY OF BIALYSTOK, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 07, 1941          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF MARINES</div> <div> IN ICELAND WAS 61 % APPROVAL. </div> <bR> <div> JULY 09, 1941          UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICALS (BANDERA AND STETSKO)</div> <div> ARE ARRESTED BY THE GERMANS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 10, 1941          GERMAN FORCES CROSS THE DRIEPER RIVER IN UKRAINE,</div> <div> RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 11, 1941             *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT APPROVES WILLIAM DONOVAN TO CREATE</div> <div> THE OSS.</div> <div>         *     IN KAUNAS, LITHUANIA, 7,800 JEWS WERE KILLED BY GERMAN SS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 12, 1941             *     A MUTUAL ASSISTANCE AGREEMENT IS MADE BETWEEN GREAT     </div> <div> BRITIAN AND RUSSIA.</div> <div>                                *     THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICALS WHO WERE ARRESTED </div> <div> ARE SENT AS PRISONERS TO THE SACHSENHAUSEN CAMP IN</div> <div>                      GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 14, 1941           SYRIA SURRENDERS TO THE BRITISH AND FREE FRENCH.</div> <div>              A FREE FRENCH GOVERNMENT IS ESTABLISHED IN SYRIA.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 15, 1941          GERMAN TROOPS CAPTURE THE CITY OF BERDICHEV, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 57 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JULY 17, 1941          NAZI RADICAL "PHILOSPHER" ALFRED ROSENBERG IS APPOINTED</div> <div> REICH MINISTER FOR THE EASTERN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. HE</div> <div> IS TO ADMINISTER THE TERRITORIES SIEZED LAND FROM RUSSIA</div> <bR> <bR> <div> JULY 18, 1941             *     1,153 RUSSIAN JEWS IN SLONIM, RUSSIA, WERE EXEUCTED BY</div> <div> GERMAN TROOPS COMMANDED BY ERICH VON DEM BACH-ZELEWSKI,</div> <div> HE IS THE COMMANDER IN THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC OF BELORUSSIA.</div> <div> HE REPORTED THIS INFORMATION TO SS COMMANDER HEINRICH</div> <div> HIMMLER.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN TROOPS CAPTURE THE CITY OF BILA TSERKVA, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 19, 1941          HITLER ORDERS DIRECTIVE #33 - A BOMBING CAMPAIGN TO</div> <div> SOFTEN MOSCOW, RUSSIA, AS A PRELUDE TO THE ITS CAPTURE.</div> <div> RUSSIA'S STALIN IS ANGERED THAT MOSCOW WAS BOMBED BY</div> <div> GERMANY AND ORDERS A BOMBING RAID ON BERLIN, GERMANY,</div> <div> IN AUGUST 1941.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 21, 1941             *     MAJDANEK CONCENTRATION (EXTERMINATION) CAMP NEAR LUBLIN,</div> <div> POLAND, BECOMES OPERATIONAL.</div> <div>         *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ASKS CONGRESS TO EXTEND THE DRAFT.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 23, 1941          THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ALLOWS RUSSIAN KGB AGENT</div> <div> GAIK OVAKIMIAN TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 24, 1941          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ISSUES A CRUDE OIL EMBARGO ON JAPAN.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 25 - 26, 1941             *     THE LITHUANIAN ARMY CONDUCTS A PROGRAM IN KOVNO</div> <div> KILLING 3,800 JEWS.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN TROOPS CAPTURE THE CITY OF NOVA UKRAINA, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 30, 1941          GERNAM TROOPS CAPTURE THE CITY OF KIROVOHRAD, RUSSIA. </div> <bR> <div> JULY 31, 1941          HERMANN GORING INSTRUCTS REINHARD HEYDRICH AT AUSCHWITZ</div> <div> CONCENTRATION CAMP TO PREPARE FOR THE "FINAL SOLUTION".</div> <bR> <div> AUGUST 1941             *     THOUSANDS OF ROMANIAN JEWS ARE FORCED INTO TRANSNISTRIA.</div> <div>         *     GERMANS ESTABLISH GHETTOS AT BIALYSTOK AND LVOV, ON THE      </div> <div> POLISH BORDER NEAR RUSSIA. </div> <div>         *     UKRAINIAN GUERILLA LEADER TARUS BUBLA STARTS THE </div> <div> STRUGGLE AGINST THE RUSSIAN ARMY. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 58 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> AUGUST 1941             *     DUTCH JEWS WERE ORDERED BY THE NAZI OCCUPYING FORCES TO</div> <div> TRANSFER THIER FUNDS TO THE LIPPMANN ROSENTHAL BANK.</div> <div> THE BANK WAS SET UP TO HOLD SECURITIES, CASH, AND</div> <div> VALUABLES BELONGING TO THE DUTCH JEWS DURING THE WAR.</div> <div>                        *     CZECHOSLOVAKIAN JEWS WERE ORDERED TO LIVE IN THE</div> <div> TOWN OF TEREZIN, 50 MILES NORTH OF PRAGUE. BETWEEN 30,000</div> <div> AND 50,000 JEWS WERE CRAMMED INTO THE BARRACKS DESIGNED</div> <div> TO HOUSE 5,000 PEOPLE. AVERAGE LIVING SPACE WAS 2 SQUARE</div> <div> YARDS PER PERSON. </div> <bR> <div> AUG. 01, 1941             *     UNITED STATES PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ANNOUNCES OIL EMBARGO</div> <div> AGAINST AGGRESSOR STATES.</div> <div>         *     IST ALLIED ATLANTIC CONVOY TO MURMANSK, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 07, 1941             *     GERMAN COMMANDER VON DEM BACH-ZELEWSKI REPORTED TO</div> <div> SS COMMANDER HEINRICH HIMMLER THAT A TOTAL OF 30,000</div> <div> RUSSIAN JEWS HAVE BEEN EXECUTED IN THE TERRITORY UNDER</div> <div> UNDER HIS CONTROL.</div> <div>                                *     GERMAN TROOPS OCCUPYING THE RUSSIAN CITY OF MINSK,</div> <div> EXECUTE 7,819 JEWS.</div> <div>                                 *     RUSSIAN NAVAL PLANES (A TOKEN RAID) BOMB BERLIN, GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 09 - 12, 1941          AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MET WITH BRITISH PRIME</div> <div> MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL AT PLACENTIA BAY, </div> <div> NEWFOUNDLAND WHERE THEY SIGNED THE ATLANTIC CHARTER</div> <div> ON AUG. 14, 1941, OUTLYING PRINCIPLES ON WHICH A DEMOCRATIC</div> <div> PEACE AND WELFARE WILL BE BASED AFTER THE DEFEAT OF NAZI</div> <div> GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> AUG 11, 1941               RUSSIAN PLANES FROM THE 81ST LONG-RANGE BOMBING AVIATION</div> <div> DIVISION, COMMANDED BY MAJOR GENERAL MIKAIL VODOPYANOV,</div> <div> WAS LAUNCHED FROM PUSHKINO, NEAR LENINGRAD, ALONG WITH </div> <div> 2 SQUADRONS FROM SAAREMAA ONA SUCESSFUL BOIMBING RAID</div> <div> ON BERLIN, GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> MID-AUGUST 1941          HIMMLER BECAME AWARE OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS</div> <div> TO HIS GERMAN FORCES IN RUSSIA OF THE MASS KILLINGS OF</div> <div> JEWISH WOMEN AND CHILDREN. HE ORDERED MORE "HUMANE"</div> <div> METHODS OF KILLING.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 17, 1941          AMERICAN-PANAMA FREIGHTER SESSA WAS SUNK BY GERMAN</div> <div> SUBMARINES. 24 OF THE SHIPS CREW OF 27 DIED.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 59 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> AUG. 20, 1941             *     GERMAN TROOPS SURROUND LENINGRAD, RUSSIA. GERMANS </div> <div> BEGIN A SIEGE ON THE CITY.</div> <div>         *     ERICH KOCH, AN ANTI-UKRAINIAN, IS APPOINTED BY HITLER AS</div> <div> THE REICH COMMISAR OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN UKRAINE.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> AUG. 21, 1941          HITLER TURNS THE GERMAN ARMY'S MAIN EFFORT SOUTHWARD</div> <div> TOWARDS KIEV, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 25, 1941           BRITISH AND RUSSIAN TROOPS STOP THE GERMAN ADVANCE</div> <div> INTO IRAN. HELP IRAN'S LEADER, SHAH PAHLEVI.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 26, 1941          THE HUNGARIAN ARMY ROUNDS UP 18,000 JEWS AT KAMENETS-</div> <div> PODOLSK, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 27, 1941          GERMAN COMMANDER FRIEDERICH JECKLEM REPORTED TO SS</div> <div> COMMANDER HEINRICH HIMMLER, THAT HIS TROOPS EXECUTED</div> <div> 4,200 JEWS NEAR THE RUSSIAN TOWN OF KAMENETS-PODOLSK.</div> <div> HE IS THE COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 31, 1941          COMMANDER JECKLEM'S GERMAN TROOPS EXECUTED ANOTHER</div> <div> 2,200 RUSSIAN JEWS IN THE UKRAINE REPUBLIC.</div> <bR> <div> SEPTEMBER 1941            *     UKRIANIAN GUERILLAS START THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE</div> <div> GERMAN ARMY WHEN GERMAN FORCES BEGAN TO EXECUTE</div> <div> UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS.</div> <div>                                 *     JAN WSKA CONCENTRATION (EXTERMINATION AND FORCED </div> <div> LABOR) CAMP IN THE UKRAINE IS OPENED.</div> <div> *     AMERICAN MR. VARIAN FRY WAS ESCORTED TO THE SPANISH</div> <div> BORDER BY THE VICHY FRANCH GOVERNMENT. THE U.S. AND</div> <div> THE VICHY THOUGHT HIS EFFORTS BECAME INTOLERABLE IN</div> <div> ASSISTING OVER 1,500 FELLOW ARTISTS AND INTELLECTUALS,</div> <div> LIKE HIMSELF TO ESCAPE THE NAZI'S IN FRANCE FROM 1940</div> <div> TO 1941 (13 MONTHS), THROUGH HIS ORGINZATION CALLED THE</div> <div> EMERGENCY RESCUE COMMITTEE, THROUGH MARSEILLE,</div> <div> FRANCE.  HE IS CONSIDERED THE "AMERICAN SHINDLER". </div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 01, 1941             *     JEWS IN GERMANY ARE ORDERED TO WEAR YELLOW STARS.</div> <div>         *     RUSSIAN PLANES WERE SUCCESSFUL IN A BOMBING RAID</div> <div> ON THE GERMAN CITY OF KONIGSBERG.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 03, 1941           THE 1ST GASSING OF PRISONERS IN AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION</div> <div> CAMP IN POLAND, WERE RUSSIAN POW'S AND POLISH POLITICAL</div> <div> PRISONERS.  THE 1ST TEST OF ZYKLON-B GAS USED AT AUSCHWITZ.</div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 60 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> SEPT. 04, 1941           AMERICAN DESTROYER GREER ATTACKS  GERMAN SUBMARINE</div> <div> U-652, WITH THE HELP OF BRITISH PLANES.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 04 - 05, 1941          A TOTAL OF 86 RUSSIAN NAVAL PLANES CONDUCTED A BOMBING</div> <div> RAID OF BERLIN, GERMANY. ONLY 33 PLANES GOT THROUGH</div> <div> TO BOMB BERLIN.  </div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 05, 1941          AMERICAN FREIGHTER STEEL SEAFARER WAS SUNK BY GERMAN</div> <div> SUBMARINES.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 06, 1941          THE GERMANS ESTABLISH THE VILNA GHETTO IN RUSSIA </div> <div> CONTAINING 40,000 JEWS. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> SEPT. 08, 1941          LENINGRAD'S  LAND CONNECTIONS WITH THE REST OF RUSSIA</div> <div> ARE FINALLY AND COMPLETELY SEVERED.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 11, 1941             *     AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DECLARES GREER ATTACK</div> <div> "PIRACY". HE STATES THE DESTROYERS ARE UNDER "SECURITY</div> <div> PATROL" ORDERS AND CHANGES TO GO ON OFFENSIVE TO</div> <div> PROTECT CONVOYS. HE ISSUES ORDERS TO "SHOOT ON SIGHT."</div> <div>         *     AMERICAN FREIGHTER MONTANA SUNB BY GERMAN SUBMARINES</div> <div> ENROUTE TO ICELAND. NO ONE DIED.</div> <div>         *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GAVE THE GO AHEAD AND CONSTRUCTION </div> <div> BEGAN ON THE NEW WAR DEPARTMENT BUILDING BEING BUILT</div> <div> IN WASHINGTON, D.C.  IT WAS CALLED THE PENTAGON.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 16, 1941             *     THE SHAH OF IRAN, SHAH PAHLEVI,  ABDICATED AND FLED INTO</div> <div> EXILE.</div> <div>         *     IRAN MADE AN AGREEMENT FOR JOINT OCCUPATION OF BRITISH </div> <div> AND RUSSIAN TROOPS.</div> <div>                                   *     HX-150 CONVOY FROM HALIFAX, ENGLAND, TO ICELAND, IS THE</div> <div> 1ST CONVOY WITH AMERICAN ESCORT SHIPS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 17, 1941             *     THE BEGINNING OF GENERAL DEPORTATION OF GERMAN JEWS TO</div> <div> CONCENTRATION CAMPS.</div> <div>                                 *     THE IRAN LEADER, SHAH PAHLEVI, WHO ADBICATED THE THRONE</div> <div> IS REPLACED BY HIS SON.</div> <div>         *     BRITISH AND RUSSIAN TROOPS OCCUPY TEHERAN, IRAN. </div> <div>         *     RUSSIA SENS LEND-LEASE AID TO IRAN.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 19, 1941             *     GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE THE CITY OF KIEV, RUSSIA. </div> <div>         *     ARMED AMERICAN-PANAMA FREIGHTER PINK STAR SUNK </div> <div> ENROUTE TO ICELAND WITH A CARGO OF FOOD. </div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 61 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> SEPT. 25, 1941          RUSSIAN KGB RESIDENT ANATOLI GORSKI IN LONDON, ENGLAND,</div> <div> INFORMS MOSCOW, RUSSIA, THAT ENGLAND HAS DECIDED TO</div> <div> BUILD AN ATOMIC BOMB.  </div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 26, 1941          600,000 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS WERE TAKEN AS PRISONERS BY THE</div> <div> GERMANS IN THE BATTLE OF KIEV, RUSSIA. GERMAN TROOPS</div> <div> ALSO CAPTURE 886 TANKS AND 3,718 ARTILLERY PIECES.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 27 - 28, 1941             *     GERMAN SS KILL 23,000 JEWS AT KAMENETS-PODOLSK, RUSSIA.</div> <div>         *     AMERICAN-PANAMA OIL TANKER I.C. WHITE SUNK ENROUTE TO </div> <div> SOUTH AFRICA. 3 PEOPLE WERE KILLED.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> SEPT. 28 - 29, 1941          GERMAN SS KILL 33,771 JEWS NEAR KIEV, AT BABI YAR, RUSSIA</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 29, 1941          MOSCOW, RUSSIA  CONFERENCE WITH STALIN, HARRIMAN, AND</div> <div> BEAVERBROOK CONCERNING ALLIED AID TO RUSSIA. </div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 30, 1941          GERMAN COMMANDER JECKLEM IN THE UKRAINE REPUBLIC OF</div> <div> RUSSIA, HAD HIS TROOPS EXECUTE 1,255 JEWS NEAR THE RUSSIAN</div> <div> TOWN OF OVRUCH.</div> <bR> <div> OCTOBER 1941             *      SS COMMANDER HIMMLER GAVE THE ORDER TO HAVE AUSCHWITZ</div> <div> CONCENTRATION CAMP READY TO EXTERNIMATE THE JEWS.</div> <div> CONSTRUCTION BEGINS AT BIRKENAU (KNOWN AS AUSCHWITZ II -</div> <div> A SATELLITE CAMP),  NEXT TO AUSCHWITZ.</div> <div>                                 *     MAUTHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP AND ITS SIDE-CAMP</div> <div> GUSEN IN AUSTRIA GASSED ABOUT 4,000 JEWS.</div> <div>         *     THE FRIST GROUP OF GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN JEWS ARE DEPORTED</div> <div> TO GHETTOS IN EASTERN EUROPE.</div> <div>         *     THE GERMAN CHEMICAL PLANT I.G. FARBEN NEEDED SLAVE LARBOR</div> <div> FOR EXTENSIVE CONSTRUCTION AND INMATES FROM AUSCHWITZ-</div> <div> BIRKENAU WAS SENT.  ABOUT 10,000 RUSSIAN P.O.W.'S DIED WORKING</div> <div> UNDER TERRIBLE CONDITIONS.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 01, 1941          END OF THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE IN RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 02, 1941          BEGINNING OF THE GERMAN ARMY'S ADVANCE ON MOSCOW, RUSSIA.</div> <div> CODE NAMED OPERATION "TYPHOON".</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 08, 1941          BIRKENAU CONCENTRATION CAMP (AUSCHWITZ II) IS ESTABLISHED</div> <div> BESIDE AUSCHWITZ I, IN POLAND.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 62 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> OCT. 09, 1941          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SEEKS REVISION OF 1939 NEUTRALITY ACT</div> <div> TO ARM MERCHANT SHIPS.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 12, 1941          WESTERN UKRAINE AND POLAND ARE INCLUDED IN THE "GENERAL</div> <div> GOVERNMENT" OF GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 16, 1941             *     GERMAN TROOPS CAPTURE THE CITY OF ODESSA, RUSSIA.</div> <div>              GERMAN SS SHOT 35,000 JEWS FROM ODESSA, RUSSIA.</div> <div>         *     AMERICAN OIL TANKER W.C. TEAGLE AND AMERICAN-PANAMA</div> <div> FREIGHTER SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINES.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 17, 1941          AMERICAN DESTROYER KEARNY WAS TORPEDOED AND DAMAGED</div> <div> BY  GERMAN SUBMARINES. 11 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WITHIN</div> <div> "SECURITY ZONE".</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 19, 1941          AMERICAN FREIGHTER LEHIGH SUNK IN SOUTH ATLANTIC BY</div> <div> GERMAN SUBMARINES.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 23, 1941          GERMANY  FORBIDS EMIGRATION OF JEWS FROM GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 24, 1941          GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE THE CITY OF KHARKOV, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 27, 1941          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DELIVERS HIS NAVY DAY SPEECH.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 30, 1941             *     GERMANY'S WAR SHIFTS TO THE EAST.</div> <bR> <div>                        *     GERMAN FORCES REACH SEVATOPOL, RUSSIA, AND ENTER THE</div> <div> RUSSIAN CRIMEA.</div> <div>                                *     AMERICAN-PANAMA ARMED TANKER SALINAS TORPEDOED AND</div> <div> DAMAGED BY GERMAN SUBMARINES.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 31, 1941          AMERICAN SHIP RUBEN JAMES WAS SUNK BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE</div> <div> WITH THE LOSS OF 100 LIVES.</div> <bR> <div> NOVEMBER 1941          THE GERMAN SS MURDER UNIT, EINSATZGRUPPEN B, REPORTS </div> <div> TO SS COMMANDER HIMMLER, A TOTAL OF 45,476 JEWS KILLED.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 01, 1941          BELZEC EXTERMINATION CAMP IS ESTABLISHED IN POLAND.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 07, 1941          THE BRITISH R.A.F.  CONDUCTED A RAID ON BERLIN, GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 13, 1941            *     BRITISH CARRIER ARC ROYAL AND BATTLESHIP BARHAM WERE</div> <div> SUNK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA BY GERMAN SUBMARINES.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 63 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> NOV. 13, 1941             *     THE U.S. AMERICAN CONGRESS AMENDED THE NEUTRALITY ACT</div> <div> AGAIN, STATING THE ARMING OF MERCHANT SHIPS, AMERICAN</div> <div> SHIPS MAY ENTER COMBAT ZONES,  AMERICAN SHIPS MAY ENTER</div> <div> BELLIGERANT NATION'S PORTS, AND SHIPMENT OF ARMS TO BRITIAN.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 18, 1941          THE BRITISH BEGIN THEIR 2ND INVASION OF LIBYA.</div> <div>              BRITISH GENERAL SIR CLAUDE AUCHINLECK LAUNCHED AN</div> <div> ATTACK TO RELIEVED THE BESIEGED GARRISON AT TOBRUK.</div> <div>              BRITISH ATTACK THE GERMANS WITH HEAVY FIGHTING NEAR </div> <div> SIDI REZEGH AND EL DUDA, LIBYA.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 21, 1941          GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE THE CITY OF ROSTOV, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 24, 1941             *     THE GERMANS ESTABLISH THE TEREZIN CONCENTRATION</div> <div> (THERESIENSTADT GHETTO AND HOLDING CENTER) CAMP NEAR</div> <div> PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA. THE GERMANS WILL USE IT AS </div> <div> THE MODEL GHETTO FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES.</div> <div>         *     AMERICAN FORCES OCCUPY BAUXITE-RICH DUTCH GUIANA.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 27, 1941          BRITISH FORCES COMPLETE SUCCESSFUL OFFENSIVE IN ITALIAN</div> <div> EAST AFRICA WITH THE CAPTUE OF THE TOWN OF GONDAR. </div> <div> ALL ITALIAN FORCES ARE DRIVEN OUT OF ITALIAN EAST AFRICA. </div> <bR> <div> NOV. 27 - 29, 1941             *     RUSSIAN FORCES COUNTER-ATTACK AND RETAKE THE CITY OF</div> <div> ROSTOV, RUSSIA, FROM THE GERMANS.     </div> <div>         *     GERMAN GENERAL RUNDSTEDT RESIGNS OVER FRUSTRATIONS</div> <div> WITH HILTER'S BATTLE STRATEGY.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 30, 1941             *     NEAR RIGA, LATVIA, A MASS SHOOTING OF LATVIAN AND</div> <div> GERMAN JEWS.</div> <div>                                 *     BY THIS TIME 3.8 MILLION RUSSIAN SOLDIERS HAVE SURRENDERED</div> <div> TO THE GERMANS, (FROM JUNE 22, 1941 TO NOVEMBER 30, 1941). </div> <bR> <div> DECEMBER 1941             *     THE GERMANS HAVE CONQUERED 600 THOUSANDS SQUARE MILES</div> <div> OF RUSSIAN LAND,  MORE THAN 3.5 MILLION RUSSIAN TROOPS</div> <div> HAVE BEEN KILLED OR CAPTURED, AND RUSSIA LOST ALMOST ALL</div> <div> OF ITS AIR FORCE.</div> <div>                                 *     JEWISH GHETTO WAS CREATED IN LVOV, POLAND.</div> <div>         *     THE GERMAN SECRET POLICE CONFIRMED THAT THE GOAL OF</div> <div> NO MORE JEWS IN LITHIANIA HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.</div> <div>                                   *     THE CHELMO EXTERMINIATION CAMP IS ESTABLISHED IN POLAND.     </div> <div>                                *     70,000 ROMANIAN JEWS DIE WHEN THEY  WERE FORCED IN </div> <div> TRANSNISTRIA BACK IN AUGUST 1941.</div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 64 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DEC. 02, 1941          GERMAN GENERAL BOCK SURROUNDED 600,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS</div> <div> IN THE CITY OF VYASMA, RUSSIA. GERMAN ATTACKS FAILED TO</div> <div> CAPTURE THE CITY.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 04, 1941             *     GERMAN  ATTACKS AGAIN FAILED TO CAPTURE THE RUSSIAN CITY</div> <div> OF VYASMA.</div> <div>                                *     RUSSIAN GENERAL GEORGI K. ZHUKOV CONTER-ATTACKED AND</div> <div> DROVE THE GERMANS BACK FROM MOSCOW.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 05, 1941          THE GERMAN ARMY ABANDONES THE ADVANCE ON MOSCOW,</div> <div> RUSSIA, AND FALL BACK TO THEIR WINTER LINE. THE GERMAN</div> <div> ARMY WAS WITHIN 19 MILES OF MOSCOW.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> DEC. 06, 1941          RUSSIAN ARMY LAUNCHES A COUNTER-OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE</div> <div> GERMANS AROUND THEIR CAPITAL CITY OF MOSCOW.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 07, 1941             *     THE JAPANESE EMPIRE ATTACKS THE AMERICA PACIFIC FLEET AT</div> <div> PEARL HARBOR HAWAII. THE SUPRISE ATTACK WAS JAPAN'S</div> <div> DECLARATION OF  WAR WITH AMERICA.</div> <div>                                *     HITLER ISSUES "NIGHT AND FOG" DECREE.</div> <div>                                  *     AMERICA BUILDS AUDACITY-CLASS ESCORT CARRIERS AND </div> <div> LIBERTY SHIPS.</div> <div>                                   *     GERMAN GENERAL ROMMEL BEGINS TO WITHDRAW HIS FORCES</div> <div> TO EL AGHEILA, LIBYA IN NORTH AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 08, 1941             *     JAPAN'S OFFICAL DECLERATION OF WAR WITH AMERICAN AND</div> <div> GREAT BRITIAN.     </div> <div>         *  AMERICA AND GREAT BRITIAN DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN.</div> <div>                                   *     THE GERMANS ESTABLISH CHELMNO CONCENTRATION CAMP </div> <div> NEAR LODZ, POLAND. THE 1ST GASSING VICTIMS INCLUDE</div> <div> 5,000 GYPSIES, WHO WERE DEPORTED FROM GERMANY TO LODZ.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 09, 1941          CHINA DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN, GERMANY, AND ITALY.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 10, 1941             *     BRITISH EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WARNS THE AMERICAN</div> <div> TREASURY DEPARTMENT THAT ALL RANKING OFFICALS OF THE</div> <div> AXIS POWERS HAVE FUNDS IN SWITZERLAND. </div> <div>                                *     BRITISH FORCES ADVANCE INTO LIBYA AND GERMAN GENERAL</div> <div> ROMMEL BEGINS TO WITHDRAW HIS FORCES AROUND TOBRUK. </div> <div> THE BRITISH GARRISON AT TOBRUK IS RESCUED.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 11, 1941             *     GERMANY AND ITALY DECLARES WAR ON AMERICA.</div> <div>         *     AMERICA DELCARES WAR ON GERMANY AND ITALY.</div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 65 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1941</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DEC. 11, 1941             *     AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT STATES "NEVER BEFORE HAS</div> <div> THERE BEEN A GREATER CHALLENGE TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND</div> <div> CIVILIZATION".</div> <div>                                *     AMERICAN MILDRED GILLARS BEGAN TO BROADCAST HER RADIO</div> <div> PROGRAM "HOME SWEET HOME" FROM BERLIN, GERMANY. IT WAS</div> <div> A NAZI PROPAGANDA BROADCAST. THE AMERICAN TROOPS</div> <div> DUBBED HER "AXIS SALLY". SHE BROADCASTED UNTIL GERMANY</div> <div> SURRENDERED, MAY 06, 1945.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 12, 1941             *     THE RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER "UKRAINSKE SLOVO" WHICH OPERATED IN</div> <div> KIEV, RUSSIA, WAS SUPPRESSED AND ITS ENTIRE STAFF WAS</div> <div> EXECUTED BY THE GERMANS IN THE CITY OF BABYN YAR.</div> <div>              *     THE SHIP "STRUMA" LEAVE ROMANINA FOR PALESTINE CARRYING</div> <div> 769 JEWS, BUT IS LATER DENIED PERMISSION BY BRITISH AUTHORITIES</div> <div> TO ALLOW THEM TO DISEMBARK.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> MID-DECEMBER 1941    *     BRITISH CRUISER GALATEA WAS SUNK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN</div> <div> SEA BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE.</div> <div>         *     ITALIAN "HUMAN TORPEDOES" (TORPEDOES STEERED BY</div> <div> SKIN DIVERS), DAMAGED BRITISH BATTLESHIPS QUEEN ELIZABETH</div> <div> AND VALIANT IN ALEXANDERIA HARBOR, EGYPT. </div> <bR> <div> DEC. 16, 1941             *     DURING A CABINET MEETING, HANS FRANK, NAZI GOVERNOR OF</div> <div>                      POLAND, STATES "WE MUST ANNIHILATE THE JEWS WHEREVER</div> <div> WE FIND THEM AND TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURE OF THE REICH</div> <div> AS A WHOLE". </div> <div>         *     GERMAN GENERAL ROMMEL AND HIS AFRIKA CORPS BEGIN THEIR</div> <div> RETREAT TO EL AGHELIA , LIBYA, IN NORTH AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 19, 1941             *     HITLER LOOSES CONFIDENCE IN HIS ARMY'S GENERALS AND TAKES</div> <div> COMPLETE COMMAND OF THE GERMAN ARMY.</div> <div>                                   *     BRITISH FLEET "FORCE K", WHICH OPERATED OUT OF MALTA, RAN</div> <div> INTO A MINEFIELD IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND LOST 1 CRUISER,</div> <div> 1 DESTROYER, AND DAMAGE TO 2 CRUISERS.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 24, 1941             *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND BRITIAN'S CHRUCHILL MEET FOR</div> <div> A CONFERENCE (ARCADIA) IN WASHINGTON, D.C. CONCERNING</div> <div> CONFIRMATION OF HITLER'S FIRST WARTIME STRATEGY.</div> <div>                                 *     BRITISH FORCES ENTER THE TOWN OF BENGHAZI, LIBYA.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 25, 1941          SENIOR RUSSIAN KGB OFFICER VASSILL ZARUBIN ARRIVES IN </div> <div> SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ON HIS WAY TO SUCCEED GAIK</div> <div> OVAKIMIAN AS NEW YORK RESIDENT.</div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 66 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div>   - ?  -   1942                  *     MAURICE PAPON, VICHY REGIONAL OFFICAL IN THE CITY OF</div> <div> BORDEAUX, FRANCE, SIGNED DEPORTATION ORDERS THAT SENT</div> <div> MORE THAN 1,500 FRENCH JEWS, INCLUDING OVER 200 CHILDREN,</div> <div> ON CONVOYS TO GERMAN EXTERMINATION CAMPS LIKE AUSCHWITZ.</div> <div>         *     THE AMERICAN FBI RECEIVED WARNINGS THAT ALGER HISS MAY</div> <div> BE A RUSSIAN SPY.</div> <bR> <div> JANUARY 1942             *     THE BRITISH FORCES STRENGTH IN AFRICA ARE AFFECTED BY</div> <div> THE TRANSFER OF THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN AN ATTEMPT TO</div> <div> AID SINGAPORE.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN SUBMARINES (U-BOATS) SANK 30 SHIPS ALONG AMERICA'S</div> <div> COAST.     </div> <div>         *     MASS KILLINGS OF JEWS USING ZYKLON-B GAS AT AUSCHWITZ-                         BIRKENAU CAMPS. THE BODIES ARE BEING BURIED IN MASS GRAVES</div> <div> IN A NEARBY MEADOW IN BIRKENAU, POLAND.</div> <div>         *     BRITIAN AND CANADA PROVIDING 98 % OF ALL ESCORTS FOR</div> <div> CONVOYS.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 01, 1942                AMERICA, BRITIAN, RUSSIA, AND 23 OTHER NATIONS  BECAME</div> <div> ALLIES TO FIGHT AGAINST THE AXIS POWERS (GERMANY, ITALY,</div> <div> JAPAN, AND THEIR ALLIES).  </div> <bR> <div> JAN. 02, 1942               BRITISH FORCES CAPTURE FORTRESS OF BARDIA IN LIBYA.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 11, 1942                THE GERMAN ARMY IN AFRICA IS RETREATING, COMMANDED BY</div> <div>                      GENERAL ROMMEL, REACHES THE CITY OF EL AGHEILA, LIBYA.</div> <bR> <div> JAN 13, 1942               GERMANY'S U-BOATS BEGIN OFFENSIVE ALONG AMERICA'S COAST.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 14, 1942               THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE (ARCADIA) BETWEEN AMERICA </div> <div> AND GREAT BRITIAN  ENDS.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 17, 1942               BRITISH FORCES DESTROY THE GERMAN GARRISON AT HALFAYA.  </div> <bR> <div> JAN. 20, 1942                 *     SS LEADER HEYDRICH CONDUCTS THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE </div> <div> IN BERLIN TO COORDINATE GERMANY'S  "FINAL SOLUTION OF THE</div> <div> JEWISH QUESTION" TO EXTERMINATE THE ENTIRE JEWISH</div> <div> POPULATION OF EUROPE, AN ESTIMATED 11 MILLION PEOPLE..</div> <div>         *     RUSSIAN FORCES RECAPTURE MOZHAISK, RUSSIA, 65 MILES WEST-</div> <div> SOTUWEST OF MOSCOW.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 67 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JAN. 21, 1942               GERMAN GENERAL ROMMEL'S LAUNCHES A MAJOR COUNTER-</div> <div> OFFENSIVE AND ATTACKS THE BRITISH LINES AND CAPTURES</div> <div> AGEDABIA, MUSUS, AND BENGHAZI, LIBYA.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 23, 1942                1ST MEETING IN ENGLAND OF C.C.S. WITH NEW AMERICAN JONT</div> <div> CHEIFS OF STAFF (GENERAL'S LEAHY, MARSHALL, KING, AND</div> <div> ARNOLD). </div> <bR> <div> JAN. 26, 1942               THE 1ST AMERICAN TROOPS ARRIVE IN GREAT BRITIAN AND</div> <div> NORTHERN IRELAND.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 28, 1942                ROMMEL`S GERMAN FORCES ARE STOPPED BY THE BRITISH AT </div> <div> THE BIR HACHEIM - EL GAZALA LINE.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 31, 1942               THE GERMAN SS UNIT, EINSATZGRUPPE A, REPORTS TO SS</div> <div> COMMANDER HIMMLER, A TALLY OF 229,052 JEWS KILLED. </div> <bR> <div> FEBRUARY 1942             *     GERMAN SUBMARINES SANK 60 SHIPS ALONG AMERICA'S COAST.</div> <div>                                *     THE SHIP "STRUMA" CARRYING 769 JEWS GOING TO PALESTINE, BUT</div> <div> WAS REFUSED ENTRY SAILED BACK TOWARDS ROMANIA, ARRIVES</div> <div> IN THE BLACK SEA AND IS SUNK BY A RUSSIAN SUBMARINE AS </div> <div> "AN ENEMY TARGET".</div> <div>                                 *     ALL AMERICAN MEN BORN OF JAPANESE DESCENT, WERE</div> <div> CLASSIFIED 4-C - UNDRAFTABLE ENEMY ALLIES.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 01, 1942                  *     GERMAN SUBMARINES BEGIN TO USE TRITON CIPER MESSAGES.</div> <div>         *     A REPORT WAS SUBMITTED TO HITLER DETAILING THE MURDER </div> <div> OF 218,050 JEWS IN THE GERMAN OCCUPIED BATLIC STATES BY</div> <div> SPECIAL GERMAN UNITS.</div> <div>         *     RUSSIAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE BEGINS TO BOG DOWN IN</div> <div> GERMAN HEDGEHOG DEFENSE SYSTEM.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 09, 1942               GERMAN FORCES START PRO-RUSSIAN ORIENTATION IN THE</div> <div> UKRAINE. </div> <bR> <div> FEB. 12, 1942               GERMAN WARSHIPS - SCHARNHORST, GNEISENAU, AND PRINZ</div> <div> EUGEN ESCAPE FROM BREST, FRANCE,  AND HEAD UP THE </div> <div> ENGLISH CHANNEL TO GERMAN PORTS.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 19, 1942                   *     AMERICAN GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER COMMANDS THE</div> <div> WAR PLANS  DIVISION AND URGES BUILDUP OF FORCES IN</div> <div> EUROPE AND CROSS-CHANNEL INVASION.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 68 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> FEB. 19, 1942                   *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SENDS HOPKINS TO LONDON TO TALK</div> <div> WITH CHURCHILL.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 22, 1942               BRITISH "BOMBER"  HARRIS IS MADE COMMANDER OF THE</div> <div> BRITISH BOMBER COMMAND.</div> <div> BRITISH PLANES BEGIN RESIDENTIAL BOMBING OF GERMAN</div> <div> CITIES OF LUBECK, ESSEN, COLOGNE, AND KIEL.</div> <bR> <div> MARCH 1942               THE GERMAN SS ESTABLISH THE BELZEC CONCENTRATION</div> <div> (EXTERMINATION)  CAMP IN POLAND WITH PERMANENT GAS</div> <div> CHAMBERS.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 01, 1942          AMERICAN WAR DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES THAT THE ARMY AND</div> <div> NAVAL COMMADERS AT PEARL HARBOR DURING THE JAPANESE</div> <div> ATTACK WILL BE COURT-MARTIALLED FOR DERELICTION OF DUTY.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 08, 1942          BRITIAN'S R.A.F. CONDUCTED NIGHT RAIDS ON ESSEN, GERMANY.</div> <div> THE TARGET IS KRUPP'S ARMAMENT FACTORY. THE CITY IS</div> <div> REDUCED TO RUBBLE.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 11, 1942          BRITISH PRIME MINSTER CHURCHILL SENDS CRIPPS-JOHNSON</div> <div> ON A MISSION TO INDIA FOR NON-ACCESSION, NON-INTERFERENCE,</div> <div> AND MILITARY PRIORITY. </div> <bR> <div> MAR. 17, 1942          THE DEPORTATION OF JEWS FROM LUBLIN, POLAND TO BELZEC     </div> <div> EXTERMINATION CAMP.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 20, 1942          MILITARY INTELLIGENCE'S SPECIAL BRANCH BEGINS DAILY</div> <div> "MAGIC SUMMARIES" ANALYZING FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC</div> <div> TRANSMISSIONS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE AND SENIOR MILITARY</div> <div> COMMANDERS.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 24, 1942          THE BEGINNING OF DEPORTATION OF SLOVAK JEWS TO AUSCHWITZ.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 27, 1942             *     THE BEGINNING OF DEPORTATION OF FRENCH JEWS TO AUSCHWITZ.</div> <div>         *     BRITISH PLANES CONDUCT A SUCCESSFUL RAID AGAINST THE</div> <div> GERMAN OCCUPIED TOWN OF ST. NAZAIRE, FRANCE.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 28, 1942             *      FRITZ SAUCKEL WAS APPOINTED AS CHIEF OF MANPOWER, TO</div> <div> EXPEDITE RECRUITMENT OF SLAVE LABOR.</div> <div>         *     1ST GERMAN REFUELING AND SUPPLYS FOR SUBMARINES AT SEA.</div> <div> CALLED "MILCH-COWS".</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 69 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAR. 30, 1942             *     THE 1ST TRAINLOADS OF JEWS FROM PARIS ARRIVE AT AUSCHWITZ.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN SUBMARINES SANK 216 SHIPS OFF UNITED STATES EAST</div> <div> COAST IN A 3 MONTH PERIOD (JAN. TO MAR.) , MOSTLY OIL TANKERS.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 1942                  *     AMERICAN SHIPS SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINES DROPPED BY</div> <div> 12% DUE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUB-CHASERS, A GROWING</div> <div> AIR PATROL, ESCORT CARRIERS DESTROYER ESCORTS, AND</div> <div> FRIGATES, SONAR AND RADAR, AND NEW WEAPONS.</div> <div>         *     THE 1ST TRANSPORTS OF JEWS ARRIVE AT MAJDANEK </div> <div> CONCENTRATION CAMP IN POLAND.</div> <div>         *     SOBIBOR CONCENTRATION CAMP IN POLAND RECEIVED </div> <div> 3 GAS CHAMBERS.</div> <div>         *     THE MAJDANEK CONCENTRATION CAMP IN POLAND STARTED</div> <div> MASS SHOOTINGS TO KILL THE JEWISH PRISONERS.</div> <div>         *     THE FIRST EMPLOYEES MOVED INTO THE NEWLY BUILT</div> <div> PENTAGON BUIDLING.</div> <bR> <div> APR. 01, 1942               AMERICAN GENERAL GEORGE PATTON ESTABLISHES DESERT</div> <div> TRAINING CENTER FOR THE 1ST ARMORED DIVISION. </div> <bR> <div> APR. 08 - 14, 1942          THE BOLERO CONFERENCE BEGINS IN LONDON, ENGLAND.</div> <bR> <div> APR. 23, 1942               GERMAN AIR RAIDS BEGIN AGINST CATHEDRAL CITIES IN</div> <div> GREAT BRITIAN.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 1942                  *     THE POWER OF NAZI GERMANY REACHED ITS GREATEST EXTENT.</div> <div> HITLER CONTROLLED EUROPE FROM NORWAY TO NORTHERN</div> <div> AFRICA AND FROM THE ATLANTIC COAST TO DEEP INSIDE THE</div> <div> RUSSIA.</div> <div>                                *     DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, THE TOP ALLIED COMMANDER, MET</div> <div> KAY SUMMERSBY IN SCOTLAND. SHE WAS HIS CIVILIAN</div> <div>                            CHAUFFEUR BUT LATER PROMOTED TO HIS SECRETARY</div> <div>                      AND MILITARY AIDE.</div> <div>                                  *     GERMAN FORCES START TO TRANSPORT RUSSIANS AS SLAVE</div> <div> LABOR BACK TO GERMANY FOR THE GERMAN WAR INDUSTRIES.</div> <div> TOTALING AT LEAST 2.3 MILLION UKRAINIANS.</div> <div>         *     SOBIBOR CONCENTRATION (EXTERMINATION) CAMP IS OPENED</div> <div> IN POLAND.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 08, 1942          GERMAN SUMMER OFFESNIVE BEGINS IN THE CRIMEA FOR                                           RUSSIA. THE MAIN EFFORT IS IN THE CAUCASUS, WITH THE </div> <div> CAPTURE OF ITS OIL. GERMAN 6TH ARMY FORCES COMMANDED</div> <div> BY GENERAL PAULUS. </div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 70 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAY 09, 1942          AMERICAN NON-INTERFERENCE AGREEMENT WITH VICHY ISLAND</div> <div> OF MARTINIQUE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 10, 1942          BRITIAN'S CHURCHILL ANNOUNCES INVASION OF VICHY</div> <div> ISLAND OF MADAGASCAR.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 12, 1942          RUSSIAN FORCES LAUNCH MAJOR OFFENSE AGAINST GERMAN</div> <div> FORCES AT KHARKOV, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 14, 1942          UNITED STATES  FINALLY STARTS CONVOYS AND BLACKOUTS </div> <div> ALONG EASTERN AMERICAN COAST.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 15, 1942           PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNS THE ROGERS BILL CREATING</div> <div> THE W.A.A.C. (WOMAN'S ARMY AUXILLARY CORPS).</div> <bR> <div> MAY 17, 1942          GERMAN FORCES COUNTER-ATTACK RUSSIAN OFFENSE FOR</div> <div> KHARKOV, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 18, 1942          IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT THE GERMANS HAVE KILLED OVER</div> <div> 100,000 JEWS IN THE BALTIC STATES, 100,000 JEWS IN POLAND, AND</div> <div> OVER 200,000 JEWS IN RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 22, 1942           THE W.A.A.C. IS ESTABLISHED WITH W.A.C. DIRECTOR OVETA</div> <div> CULP HOBBY COMMANDING 60,000 WOMEN IN THE ARMY AND</div> <div> WAS GIVEN THE RANK OF COLONEL. 300,000 WOMEN SERVED</div> <div> IN THE MILITARY DURING THE WAR.   </div> <bR> <div> MAY 26, 1942          GENERAL ROMMEL AGAIN ATTACKS THE BRITISH NEAR A ROAD</div> <div> JUNCTION CALLED "KNIGHTS BRIDGE" BY THE BRITISH AND A MINE</div> <div> FIELD CALLED "THE CAULDRON".</div> <bR> <div> MAY 27, 1942             *     GERMAN SS LEADER HEYDRICH IS MORTALLY WOUNDED BY</div> <div> CZECHOSLOVAKIAN UNDERGROUND AGENTS IN PRAGUE.</div> <div>         *     GENERAL ROMMEL LAUNCHES A MAJOR OFFENSIVE AGAINST</div> <div> THE BRITISH HELD EL GAZALA - BIR HACHEIM LINE.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 28, 1942           GERMAN FORCES COMPLETELY STOP THE RUSSIAN OFFENSE</div> <div> FOR KHARKOV, RISSUA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 29, 1942             *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PROMISES RUSSIA'S MOLOTOV A SECOND</div> <div> FRONT HIS YEAR.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 71 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAY 29, 1942          THE GERMAN SS AT SACHSENHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP</div> <div> INVITED GERMAN HIGH RANKED NAZI OFFICALS FOR THE</div> <div> OPENING OF OF A NEW INSTALLATION FOR THE EXTERMINATION </div> <div> OF PRISONERS.  96 JEWS WERE KILLED TO SHOW THEM HOW                              EFFICIENT IT IS.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 30, 1942             *     BRITISH ROYAL AIR FORCE CONDUCTS A NIGHT TIME BOMB RAID</div> <div> ON COLOGNE, GERMANY. 1,130 PLANES DROPPED 1,500 BOMBS IN</div> <div> 90 MINUTES.</div> <div>         *     MONOVITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP (AUSCHWITZ III) IS ESTABLISHED</div> <div> BESIDE AUSCHWITZ'S I AND II, IN POLAND.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 1942                  *     MOBILE GAS VANS ARE USED AT THE CONCENTRATION CAMP IN </div> <div> RIGA, LATVIA.</div> <div>         *     THE GERMANS CREATE THE PLASZOW LABOR CAMP IN POLAND.</div> <div>                                  *     MASS MURDER OF THE JEWS BY GASSING BEGINS AT AUSCHWITZ</div> <div> EXTERMINATION CAMP.</div> <div>         *     WORST MONTH FOR ALLIED SHIPPING LOSSES, 834,196 TONS.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN GESTAPO OFFICER KLAUS BARBIE "THE BUTCHER OF LYON"</div> <div> WAS PROMOTED FROM HOLLAND TO DIJON IN THE OCCUPIED ZONE OF</div> <div> FRANCE, AFTER RECEIVING AN IRON CROSS MEDAL FOR HIS SUCCESS</div> <div> IN KILLING 4,000 JEWS AND SHIPPING 7,500 JEWS TO THEIR DEATHS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 01, 1942          JEWS IN FRANCE, NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, CROATIA, SLOVAKIA,</div> <div> AND ROMANIA ARE ORDERED BY THE GERMANS TO WEAR YELLOW</div> <div> STARS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 04, 1942          GERMAN SS LEADER HEYDRICH DIES FROM HIS WOUNDS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 05, 1942             *     GERMAN FORCES BESIEGE THE CITY OF SEVASTOPOL, RUSSIA,</div> <div> IN THE CRIMEA, ALONG THE BLACK SEA.</div> <div>                                 *     THE GERMAN SS REPORTS THAT 97,000 PERSONS HAVE BEEN</div> <div> "PROCESSED" IN MOBILE GAS VANS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 10, 1942             *     GERMANS FORCES EVACUATE BIR HACHEIM.</div> <div>         *     THE GERMAN SS COMPLETELY EXTERMINATE THE CITY OF LIDICE,</div> <div> CZECHOSLOVAKIA, IN RETALIATION FOR SS LEADER HEYDRICH'S</div> <div> DEATH.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 11, 1942             *     ADOLF EICHMANN MEETS WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM FRANCE,</div> <div> BELGIUM, AND THE NETHERLANDS TO COORDINATE THE</div> <div> DEPORTATION PLANS OF THE JEWS.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 72 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JUNE 13, 1942             *     THE BRITISH COUNTER-ATTACK THE GERMANS WITH A HEAVY</div> <div> TANK ATTACK. GERMAN GENERAL ROMMEL AMBUSHES THE </div> <div> BRITISH TANKS AND DESTROYS 230 OUT OF 300 TANKS.</div> <div>                                    *     THE AMERICAN OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR OF INFORMATION</div> <div> BECOMES THE OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES (0SS).</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 14, 1942          BRITISH FORCES WITHDRAW TOWARDS EGYPT.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 20, 1942          THE GERMAN FORCES COMMAND BY GENERAL ROMMEL </div> <div> ADVANCE TO TOBRUK.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 21, 1942             *     GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE THE CITY OF TOBRUK. THE BRITISH </div> <div> FORCES WERE SHATTERED.  THEY COULD NOT HOLD THE GERMANS</div> <div> AT THE TOWN OF MATRUH.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN GENERAL ROMMEL WINS APPROVEL TO INVADE EGYPT</div> <div> INSTEAD OF GENERAL KESSERLING'S INVASION OF MALTA.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 24, 1942          GENERAL ROMMEL'S FORCES REACH SIDI BARRANI, EGYPT.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 25, 1942          AMERICAN GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER ARRIVES IN</div> <div> LONDON, ENGLAND.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 25 - 27, 1942          WASHINGTON CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND</div> <div> BRITIAN'S CHURCHILL CONCERNING PLAN TO ATTACK AXIS</div> <div> FORCES FIRST IN NORTH AFRICA AND THEN IN EUROPE.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 27, 1942          AN ALLIED SUPPLY CONVOY DEPARTED ICELAND. 35 SHIPS:</div> <div> 22 AMERICAN, 8 BRITISH, 2 RUSSIAN, 2 PANAMANIAN, AND 1 DUTCH</div> <div> CARRIED SUPPLIES TO RUSSIA. THE CONVOY WAS NAMED PQ-17.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 28, 1942          THE GERMAN BEGIN THEIR SUMMER OFFENSIVE TOWARDS</div> <div> MOSCOW, RUSSIA. THE GERMAN MAIN ATTACK IS EXTENDED </div> <div> ALONG A 200 MILE FRONT, BETWEEN THE DON AND THE DONETS</div> <div>                      RIVERS.</div> <bR> <div> JUNE 30, 1942             *     THE BRITISH RETREATED AND WERE FORCED BACK TO EL ALAMEIN</div> <div> POSITIONS NEAR CAIRO, EGYPT.</div> <div>         *     AMERICAN INTERAGENCY AGREEMENT DIVIDES SIGNALS </div> <div> INTELLIGENCE DUITES - THE NAVY IS ASSIGNED TO HANDLE NAVAL</div> <div> CODE-BREAKING, THE ARMY IS ASSIGNED TO HANDLE DIPLOMATIC</div> <div> AND MILITARY TRAFFIC, AND THE FBI IS ASSIGNED TO HANDLE</div> <div> CLANDESTINE RADIO COMMUNICAITONS.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 73 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JUNE 30, 1942             *     AT AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP, A 2ND GAS CHAMBER IS     </div> <div> PUT INTO OPERATION DUE TO THE NUMBER OF JEWS ARRIVING.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 1942                  *     THE GERMANS TAKE CONTROL OF THE WESTERBORK </div> <div> CONCENTRATION CAMP IN HOLLAND WHICH HAS 750 JEWISH</div> <div> REFUGEES IN THE CAMP. IT OFFICALLY BECAME A TRANSIT</div> <div> CAMP.</div> <div>                               *     BRITIAN'S CHURCHILL WINS APPROVAL OF 300 SHERMAN TANKS</div> <div> TO DEFEND EL ALAMEIN.</div> <div>                                  *     BRITIAN'S CHRUCHILL REPLACES GENERAL AUCHINLECK WITH</div> <div>                      GENERAL HAROLD ALEXANDER AS COMMANDER OF BRITISH</div> <div> FORCES IN EGYPT.</div> <div>         *     CHURCHILL IS GIVING THE 8TH ARMY TO GENERAL MONTGOMERY.</div> <div>                               *     SWISS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS</div> <div> RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM A GERMAN INDUSTRALIST </div> <div> CONCERNING THE NAZI PLAN TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWS.     </div> <div> THEY PASS THE INFORMATION ON TO LONDON, ENGLAND AND</div> <div> WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES.</div> <div>         *     THE ALLIES EQUIP THEIR PLANES WITH NEW RADAR FOR SUBMARINE</div> <div> LOCATING IN THE ATLANTIC.</div> <div>                                  *     AMERICAN WARPLANES, 2 B-17 BOMBERS AND 6 P-38 FIGHTERS,</div> <div> PART OF OPERATION BOLERO - WARPLANES HEADED FOR BRITIAN,</div> <div> TOOK OFF FROM PRESQUE, MAINE AND REFULED IN GREENLAND.</div> <div> HEADED FOR ICELAND, BAD WEATHER FORCED THEM BACK AND</div> <div> THEY LANDED ON THE ICE CAP OF SOUTHERN GREENLAND.  ALL</div> <div> 25 AIRMEN SURVIVED, SPENDING MORE THAN A WEEK THERE.</div> <div> RESCURED BY DOG SLEDS AND TAKEN TO A SHIP WAITING AT</div> <div> THE COAST.  THE PLANES WERE LEFT BEHIND. THESE PLANES </div> <div> WERE KNOWN AS "THE LOST SQUADRON".</div> <bR> <div> JULY 01, 1942             *     GERMAN TROOPS COMMANDED BY ROMMEL ATTACK THE BRITISH</div> <div> NEAR EL ALAMEIN, EGYPT IN AN AREA FROM THE QATTARA</div> <div> DEPRESSION, AN IMPASSABLE AREA OF SOFT SAND AND THE SEA,</div> <div> A COSTAL CORRIDOR AREA THAT NARROWS TO 40 MILES. THE</div> <div> BRITISH HELD AGAINST THE GERMAN ATTACKS.</div> <div>                                *     RUSSIAN CITY OF SEVASTOPOL WAS CAPTURED BY GERMANS</div> <div> AFTER A LONG 250 DAY SIEGE.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 02, 1942             *     IT IS ESTIMATED THAT OVER 1,000,000 JEWS HAVE BEEN KILLED</div> <div> BY THE GERMANS.</div> <div>         *     JEWS FROM BERLIN, GERMANY, ARE SENT TO THERESIENSTADT</div> <div>                      CONCENTRATION CAMP IN CZECHOSLAVKIA.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 74 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JULY 02, 1942                    *     BRITISH 8TH ARMY BEGINS LIMITED COUNTER-ATTACKS</div> <div> AGAINST GERMAN FORCES IN EGYPT.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 04, 1942          AMERICAN AIRFORCE CREWS PARTICIPATE IN BRITISH R.A.F.</div> <div> RAID ON AIRFIELDS IN THE NETHERLANDS, IN THE FIRST </div> <div> AMERICAN AIR OPERATION IN EUROPE.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 04 - 10, 1942          CONVOY PQ-17 IN THE BARENTS SEA SCATTER. THEIR ESCORT</div> <div> TURNS SOUTH. GERMAN NAVY AND AIR BASES IN THE AREA ARE</div> <div> AWARE OF THE CONVOY TO MURMANSK, RUSSIA.</div> <div>                                      GERMAN SHIPS FROM BASES IN NORWAY SAIL TO INTERCEPT</div> <div> CONVOY PQ-17. SHIPS TURN BACK DUE TO SUCCESS OF GERMAN</div> <div> AIR FORCE (260 PLANES) AND SUBMARINES (30 U-BOATS) ATTACK </div> <div> ON CONVOY PQ-17. 15 ALLIED CONVOY SHIPS ARE SUNK OFF THE</div> <div> COAST OF SPITZBERGEN. 6 MORE ALLIED SHIPS FROM CONVOY </div> <div> PQ-17 ARE SUNK OFF COAST OF NOVAYA ZEMLYA, RUSSIA.</div> <div>                             2 MORE SHIPS OF ALLIED CONVOY PQ-17 ARE SUNK OFF COAST </div> <div> OF KOLGUEV ISLAND, RUSSIA. 23 OF THE 36 SHIPS IN THE CONVOY</div> <div> WERE SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINES AND AIRPLANES. IT IS</div> <div> THE WORST CONVOY SHIP LOSS OF THE WAR.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 05, 1942           RUSSIAN RESISTANCE AGAINST THE GERMANS IN THE CRIMEA ENDS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 06, 1942           GERMAN FORCES REACH VORONEZH, RUSSIA, AND TURNED SOUTH.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 07, 1942          SS GENERAL HIMMLER GRANTS PERMISSION FOR STERILIZATION</div> <div> EXPERIMENTS AT AUSCHWITZ.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 08, 1942          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT BARS ALL AGENCIES EXPECT THE FBI AND</div> <div> THE ARMED SERVICES FROM CODE-BREAKING ACTIVITIES.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 09, 1942          THE GERMAN OFFENSE IN RUSSIA, SPLITS INTO 2 GROUPS - 1 ARMY</div> <div> GROUP ADVANCES TOWARDS STALINGRAD AND 1 ARMY GROUP</div> <div> ADVANCES THROUGH ROSTOV INTO THE CAUCASUS OILFIELDS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 14, 1942          BEGINNING OF DEPORTATION OF DUTCH JEWS TO AUSCHWITZ.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 15, 1942          GERMAN SUBMARINE U-571, PARTOLING OFF THE COAST OF </div> <div> FLORIDA, U.S.A., TORPEDOED THE OIL TANKER - PENNSYLVANIA. </div> <div> THE TANKER DID NOT SINK AND MADE IT TO PORT. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 75 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JULY 16, 1942             *     HITLER MOVES HIS HEADQUARTERS FROM PRUSSIA TO THE</div> <div> UKRAINE AT THE WEHRWOLF LAIR, NEAR VINNNITSYA, RUSSIA</div> <div> AND STAYS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 27, 1942.</div> <div>         *     THE 1ST TRANSPORTS FROM HOLLAND TRANSPORTING 1,135</div> <div> JEWS ARRIVE AT AUSCHWITZ.</div> <div> THEY JOIN JEWS FROM ALL OVER EUROPE.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> JULY 16 - 17, 1942          AN INCIDENT CALLED "LA RAFLE DU VEL D'HIV" (THE GREAT RAID</div> <div> OF THE VEL D'HIV) - THE FRENCH STADIUM, THE VELODROME</div> <div> D'HIVER, IN PARIS WHERE THE GOVERNMENT OF PETAIN AND THE</div> <div> GERMAN OCCUPATION ADMINISTRATION WERE TO ARREST JEWS</div> <div> OVER THE AGE OF 16 AND DETAIN THEM IN THE STADIUM. THIS</div> <div> OPERATION WAS CALLED: "SPRING WIND".</div> <div> 12,800 MEN, 5,802 WOMEN, AND 4,051 CHILDREN (AGES 2 TO 12)</div> <div> WERE PUT IN THE STADIUM THE CHILDREN WERE KEPT THERE</div> <div> FOR 5 DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR MEDICAL CARE.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 17 - 18, 1942          SS GENERAL HIMMLER VISITS AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, INSPECTING</div> <div> ON THE EXPANSION CONSTRUCTION AND EXTERMINATION</div> <div> PROCESS FROM START TO FINISH AS 2 TRAINLOADS OF JEWS</div> <div> ARRIVE FROM THE NETHERLANDS. CAMP COMMANDANT HOSS</div> <div> IS PROMOTED BY HIMMLER AND 4 LARGE GAS CHAMBERS AND</div> <div> CREMATORIES ARE BUILT.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 19, 1942          SS GENERAL HIMMLER ORDERS OPERATION "REINHARD" FOR MASS</div> <div> DEPORTATION OF JEWS IN POLAND TO EXTERMINATION CAMPS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 22, 1942             *     BEGINNING OF DEPORTATIONS FROM WARSAW GHETTO TO NEW </div> <div> EXTERMINATION CAMP IN TREBLINKA, POLAND, EAST OF WARSAW. </div> <div>                             THE TREBLINKA CAMP HAS 2 BUILDINGS WHICH HOLDS 10 GAS</div> <div> CHAMBERS (CAPICITY FOR 200 PEOPLE EACH). THE BODIES ARE</div> <div> BURNED IN OPEN PITS.</div> <div>                                 *     BEGINNING OF DEPORTATION OF BELGIUM JEWS TO AUSCHWITZ.     </div> <div>         *     OPERATION TORCH DECISION - THE 2ND FRONT IS POSPONED. </div> <div> PRIORITY IS INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA AND GENERAL</div> <div> EISENHOWER IS CHOSEN AS THE INVASION COMMANDER.</div> <div>         *     THE FRENCH CHILDREN HELD AT THE STADIUM - THE VELODROME</div> <div> D'HIVER, WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE FRENCH CONCENTRATION</div> <div> CAMP NAMED DRANCY WHERE THE CHILDREN WERE SEPERATED</div> <div> FROM THEIR PARENTS. THEIR PARENTS WERE SENT TO AUSCHWITZ</div> <div> AND GASSED UPON THEIR ARRIVAL.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 23, 1942          GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE THE RUSSIAN TOWN OF ROSTOV.</div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 76 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JULY 28, 1942          RUSSIAN LEADER STALIN, ISSUES ORDER #227. CALLING FOR</div> <div> THE EXECUTION OF RUSSIAN ARMY MEN AS "TRAITORS" WHO</div> <div> WERE COWARDS (CAPTURED) AND ALSO ALL OFFICERS WHO </div> <div> RETREATED WITHOUT ORDERS.</div> <bR> <div> JULY 30, 1942             *     936 JEWS FROM PRAGUE ARRIVED IN TEREZIN, ON A TRAIN </div> <div> FROM PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA.</div> <div>         *     SEVERAL CHILDREN DIED AT THE DRANCY CONCENTRATIONCAMP</div> <div> IN FRANCE DUE TO THE BRUTALITY OF THE FRENCH GUARDS.</div> <div> FINALLY THE CHILDREN WERE SENT TO AUSCHWITZ AND WERE </div> <div> GASSED UPON THEIR ARRIVAL.</div> <div>         *     BY THIS TIME, OVER 6,000 DUTCH JEWS HAVE BEEN TRANSPORTED </div> <div> TO AUSCHWITZ, WHERE MOST OF THEM WERE GASSED.</div> <bR> <div> AUGUST 1942          THE BEGINNINGS OF DEPORTATION OF CROATIAN JEWS TO </div> <div> AUSCHWITZ. </div> <bR> <div> AUG. 07, 1942           BRITISH GENERAL BERNARD MONTGOMERY TAKES COMMAND</div> <div> OF THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 09, 1942             *     GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE THE RUSSIAN CITY OF MAIKOP, DEEP</div> <div> IN THE CAUCASUS, WHERE THEY RAN OUT OF SUPPLIES AND</div> <div> ADVANCE NO FURTHER AS THE RUSSIAN FORCES FIGHT THE </div> <div> GERMANS HARDER.</div> <div>                                *     THE RUSSIAN SOCCER TEAM "KIEV DYNAMO" DEFEATS THE</div> <div> GERMAN TEAM "FLAKELF" AND IS EXECUTED AT BABYN YAR, </div> <div> RUSSIA.</div> <div>                                *     BRITISH TROOPS ARREST GANDHI IN INDIA.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 12, 1942          BRITISH PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL MEETS WITH RUSSIAN </div> <div> LEADER STALIN IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA, TO TALK ABOUT WHY</div> <div> ARCTIC CONVOYS HAD BEEN STOPPED SINCE THE LOSS OF</div> <div> PQ-17 IN JUNE 1942.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 17, 1942           THE 1ST AMERICAN BOMBING RAID OF GERMANY AT ROUEN,</div> <div> FRANCE BY THE 8TH AIRFORCE BUT THE PLANES WERE DIVERTED </div> <div> TO NORTH AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 19, 1942           BRITISH TROOPS, CANADIAN COMMANDOS, AND A SMALL</div> <div> DETACHMENT OF AMERICAN RANGERS CONDUCTED A LARGE </div> <div> SCALE AMPHIBIOUS RAID ON COAST AT DIEPPE, FRANCE. THE</div> <div> GERMANS INFLICTED VERY HEAVY LOSSES ON THE COMMANDOS.</div> <div> MANY COMMANDOS ARE TAKEN PRISONER.  THE RAID IS A FAILURE.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 77 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> AUG. 22, 1942          BRAZIL DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY AND ITALY AFTER </div> <div> BRAZILIAN SHIPS ARE TORPEDOED AND SUNK.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 23, 1942             *     BEGINNING OF GERMAN ARMY ATTACK ON STALINGRAD, RUSSIA,</div> <div> WITH A MASSIVE GERMAN AIR ATTACK .</div> <div>                                *     "THE LAST CALVARY CHARGE IN HISTORY" THE ITALIAN ARMY'S</div> <div> SAVOY CALVARY (600 MEN) COMMANDED BY COL. BETTONI</div> <div> CHARGED AND ROUTED A RUSSIAN UNIT OF 2,000 MEN ON THE </div> <div> SOUTH-EASTERN BORDER OF THE UKRAINE, NEAR KRANSNODON, </div> <div> RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 26 - 28, 1942          7,000 JEWS ARE ARRESTED IN UNOCCUPIED FRANCE.</div> <bR> <div> AUG. 31, 1942          ROMMEL'S GERMAN FORCES ATTACK EL ALAMEIN POSITIONS. </div> <div> THE BATTLE OF ALAM EL HALFA, EGYPT. </div> <bR> <div> SEPTEMBER 1942             *     PRIOR TO THE BATTLE FOR STALINGRAD, RUSSIA HAD OVER</div> <div> 6,000,000 CASUALTIES FROM THE GERMAN INVADING ARMY.</div> <div>                                 *     BRITISH TROOPS WERE DIGGING TANK TRAPS IN THE KYBER</div> <div> PASS TO KEEP THE GERMANS OUT OF INIDA.</div> <div>                                 *     ALLIES DELIBERATELY PULL ATLANTIC DEFENSES TO SUPPLY</div> <div> OPERATION "TORCH", THE INVASION OF NORTH AFIRCA.</div> <div>                     *     NEUENGAMME CONCENTRATION CAMP, SOUTHEAST OF HAMBUURG</div> <div> GERMANY, GASSED 450 PEOPLE WITH ZYKLON B GAS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 02, 1942          GERMAN FORCES COMMANDED BY GENERAL ROMMEL ARE DRIVEN</div> <div> BACK BY BRITISH GENERAL MONTGOMERY DURING THE BATTLE</div> <div> OF ALMA EL HALFA, EGYPT.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 07, 1942          GENERAL MONTGOMERY STOPS BRITISH COUNTER-ATTACK AT</div> <div> ALMA EL HALFA, EGYPT. PREPARES FOR MAJOR COUNTER-OFFENSIVE. </div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 09, 1942          AUSCHWITZ BEGINS OPEN PIT BURNING OF BODIES INSTEAD OF</div> <div> BURIAL. THE DECISION WAS MADE TO DIG UP 107,000 CORPSES</div> <div> ALREADY BURIED IS TO PREVENT FOULING OF THE GROUND WATER.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 16, 1942          GERMAN FORCES ATTACK STALINGRAD, RUSSIA, BY CROSSINGTHE</div> <div> DON RIVER AND GAINING A FOOTHOLD IN THE CITY. GERMAN</div> <div> AIR ATTACKS DEVASTATE THE CITY BUT THE RUSSIAN FORCES</div> <div> HELD.  THE BATTLE FOR STALINGRAD BEGINS.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 18, 1942          REDUCTION OF FOOD RATIONS BEGIN FOR THE JEWS IN GERMANY.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 78 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> SEPT. 25, 1942          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DEDICATES CAMP PENDLETON IN</div> <div> CALIFORNIA.</div> <bR> <div> SEPT. 26, 1942          THE GERMAN SS BEGINS CASHING IN ON "POSSESSIONS AND</div> <div> VALUABLES" OF THE JEWS FROM AUSCHWITZ AND MAJDANEK</div> <div> CAMPS. GERMAN BANKNOTES ARE SENT TO THE REICH BANK,</div> <div> FOERIGN CURRENCY, GOLD, JEWELRY, AND OTHER VALUABLES</div> <div> ARE SENT TO SS HEADQUARTERS OF THE ECONOMIC </div> <div> ADMINISTRATION. WATCHES, CLOCKS, AND PENS ARE DISTRIBUTED</div> <div> TO THE TROOPS AT THE FRONT, AND CLOTHING IS DISTRIBUTED TO</div> <div> GERMAN FAMILIES.</div> <bR> <div> OCTOBER 1942            *     THE GERMAN TROOPS BATTLE THE RUSSIANS ON A NARROW</div> <div> FRONT, WITH NO GROUND TAKEN. HITLER WOULD NOT ALLOW</div> <div> NO WITHDRAW OR RETREAT AND ORDERED HIS ARMIES TO HOLD</div> <div> THE GROUND AT ALL COSTS.</div> <div>        *     THE GERMAN GOAL IN AFRICA IS TO MARCH EAST AND SIEZE THE</div> <div> SUEZ CANAL AND THE OIL FIELDS OF THE MIDDLE EAST.</div> <div> THE GERMAN ARMY IN AFRICA HAD COME WITHIN 70 MILES OF</div> <div> ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT.</div> <div>        *     THE ALL BLACK AMERICAN 92ND INFANTRY DIVISION WAS</div> <div>                      ACTIVATED UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL EDWARD </div> <div> M. ALMOND.  92ND NICKNAMED THE "BUFFALO SOLDIERS" DUE TO</div> <div> THE BUFFALO PATCH ON THE UNIFORM.</div> <div>                                  *     GERMAN SUBMARINES ARE STILL SINKING ONLY 12% OF AMERICAN</div> <div> SHIPS.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 05, 1942          SS GENERAL HIMMLER ORDERS ALL JEWS IN CONCENTRATION</div> <div> CAMPS IN GERMANY BE SENT TO AUSCHWITZ AND MAJDANEK. </div> <bR> <div> OCT. 14, 1942             *     MASS KILLINGS BY THE SS OF JEWS FROM MIZOCZ GHETTO IN THE</div> <div> UKRAINE REPUBLIC OF RUSSIA.</div> <div>         *     UKRAINIAN INSURGENT ARMY IS ESTABLISHED AND FIGHTS      </div> <div> AGINST BOTH THE GERMAN AND RUSSIAN ARMIES.</div> <div>         *     BLOODIEST DAY OF FIGHTING AT STALINGRAD. GERMANS</div> <div> ADVANCE TO THE VOLGA RIVER.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 79 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> OCT. 17, 1942          SWITZERLAND'S JUSTICE MINISTER EDUARD VON STEIGER TOLD</div> <div> THE HEAD OF THE SWISS FATHERLAND ASSOCIATION (AN ANTI</div> <div> SEMITIC GROUP) "THAT HE WOULD HOLD IN CONFIDENCE THE</div> <div> ASSOCIATION'S RECOMMENDATION AGAINST INCREASING</div> <div>                      JEWISH INFLUENCE IN SWITZERLAND." THE COUNTRY'S BORDERS</div> <div> WOULD BE SEALED MORE TIGHTLY AGAINST JEWS BUT THE,  </div> <div> POLICY SHIFT WOULD HAVE TO BE KEPT A SECRET.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 18, 1942          HITLER ORDERS THE EXECUTION OF ALL BRITISH COMMANDOS</div> <div> TAKEN PRISONER.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 22, 1942             *     GERMAN SS TROOPS PUT DOWN A REVOLT AT SACHSENHAUSEN</div> <div> BY A GROUP OF JEWS ABOUT TO BE SENT TO AUSCHWITZ.</div> <div>         *     AMERICAN GENERAL MARK CLARK LANDS FROM SUBMARINE FOR</div> <div> SECRET MEETING WITH PRO-ALLIED FRENCH OFFICERS, TO CLEAR</div> <div> THE WAY FOR OPERATION TORCH - THE ALLIED INVASION OF</div> <div> FRENCH NORTH AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 23, 1942             *     THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY BEGINS EL ALAMEIN OFFENSIVE BY </div> <div> COUNTER-ATTACKING THE GERMAN AFRIKA CORPS DEFENSIVE</div> <div> LINES WITH HEAVY ARTILLERY BARRAGES AND HEAVY AIR</div> <div> BOMBARDMENTS. BRITISHATTACKED WITH 195,000 MEN, 1,351 </div> <div> TANKS, AND 1,900 ARTILLERY.</div> <div>                                *     ROBERT MURPHY PERSUADES VICHY FRENCH IN NORTH AFRICA </div> <div> TO ACCEPT GENERAL GIRAUD'S AUTHROITY. A DILEMMA IN </div> <div> SUPPORTING DeGAULLE'S FREE FRENCH OR PETAIN'S VICHY FRENCH.</div> <bR> <div> OCT. 25, 1942          DEPORTATIONS OF JEWS FROM NORWAY TO AUSCHWITZ BEGIN. </div> <bR> <div> OCT. 28, 1942          THE 1ST TRANSPORTS FROM THERESIENSTADT ARRIVE AT</div> <div> AUSCHWITZ.</div> <bR> <div> NOVEMBER 1942             *     MR. JAN KARSKI, A COURIER FOR THE POLISH UNDERGROUND</div> <div> RESISTANCE WAS SENT BY THE POLISH GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE</div> <div> TO GO TO LONDON AND THEN TO WASHINGTON, D.C.  HE WAS</div> <div> DESPORATE TO TELL THE ALLIES WHAT WAS HAPPENINIG INSIDE </div> <div> NAZI OCCUPIED POLAND.  HE WAS TO PROVIDE THE WESTERN </div> <div> POWERS WITH AN ASSESSMENT OF THE GERMAN MILITARY </div> <div> MACHINE AND ALERT THE WORLD TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE</div> <div> JEWS. HE DID SO, BUT FEW BELIEVED HIM. </div> <div>                                 *     YUGOSLAVIA TITO'S PARTISANS ORGANIZED BY JOSIP BROS, </div> <div> A COMMUNIST, PRO-STALIN. </div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 80 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> NOVEMBER 1942             *     GERMAN SS CONDUCTED MASS KILLING OF 170,000 JEWS IN THE </div> <div> AREA OF BIALYSTOK, RUSSIA.     </div> <div>         *     BY THIS TIME, OVER 103,00 JEWS WERE TRANSFERRED FROM</div> <div> WESTERBOK TRANSIT CAMP IN HOLLAND TO AUSCHWITZ OR </div> <div> SOBIBOR EXTERMINATION CAMPS IN POLAND.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 01, 1942          HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES IN STALINGRAD, RUSSIA AND THE</div> <div> CAUCASUS.  RUSSIAN FORCES ARE WEARING DOWN THE GERMAN</div> <div> OFFENSIVE. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> NOV. 04, 1942             *     THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY COMMANDED BY GENERAL MONTGOMERY</div> <div> BREAK THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES AT EL ALAMEIN  IN</div> <div> OPERATION "SUPERCHARGE".  MOST OF THE ITALIAN FORCES </div> <div> WERE CUT OFF AND SURRENDERED.</div> <div> THE GERMAN ARMORED FORCE IN A DESPERATE RETREAT, </div> <div> REACHED THE CITY OF EL AGHELIA, LIBYA .</div> <div>                                     *     BRITIAN'S CHURCHILL SAID "BEFORE EL ALAMEIN WE HAD NEVER</div> <div> HAD A VICTORY. AFTER EL ALAMEIN WE NEVER HAD A DEFEAT."</div> <div>         *     GERMAN GENERAL ROMMEL ADVISED HITLER TO PULL OUT OF</div> <div> NORTH AFRICA. HITLER REFUSED.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 05, 1942          GENERAL ROMMEL WITHDRAWS HIS FORCES FROM THE EL</div> <div> ALAMEIN AREA.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 08, 1942             *     FRENCH ADMIRAL DARLAN IMPRISONS ROBERT MURPHY.</div> <div>                                *     FRENCH FORCES AT CASABLANCA, MOROCCO IGNORED FRENCH</div> <div> GENERAL HENRI GIRAUD'S APPEL TO JOIN THE ALLIES. THEY                               RESISTED AND THERE WAS SEVERE AND HEAVY FIGHTING FOR </div> <div> CASABLANCA. VICHY FORCES COMMANDED BY GENERAL</div> <div> NOGUES.</div> <div>                                *     BRITISH AND AMERICAN TROOPS (THE 1ST MAJOR OFFENSIVE FOR </div> <div> AMERICA WAS A JOINT INVASION PLAN) LANDED AT CASABLANCA,</div> <div> MOROCCO (35,000 MEN FROM AMERICA COMMANDED BY GENERAL</div> <div> PATTON), AT ORAN, ALGERIA (39,000 AMERICAN MEN FROM ENGLAND</div> <div> COMMANDED BY FREDENDALL) AND AT ALGIERS,  ALGERIA </div> <div> (33,000 AMERICAN AND BRITISH COMMANDED BY RYDER). IT WAS </div> <div> TO COINCIDE WITH THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY'S OFFENSIVE AGAINST</div> <div>                      THE GERMANS AT EL ALAMEIN, EGYPT. THE INVASION WAS CALLED</div> <div> "OPERATION TORCH" COMMANED BY AMERICAN GENERAL DWIGHT</div> <div> D. EISENHOWER.  12,700 SHIPS WERE USED IN THE INVASION FLEET.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 09, 1942          GERMAN TROOPS BEGIN OCCUPYING TUNISIA.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 81 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> NOV. 10, 1942          FRENCH ADMIRAL JEAN DARLAN, SECOND TO MARSHAL PETAIN</div> <div> OF THE VICHY GOVERNMENT WAS CAPTURED AT  ALGIERS, </div> <div> ALGERIA. ADMIRAL DARLAN CO-OPERATES WITH THE ALLIES</div> <div> AND ORDERS THE FRENCH FORCES IN NORTH AFRICA TO CEASE</div> <div> RESISTANCE TO THE ALLIED INVASION.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 11, 1942             *     BRITISH 8TH ARMY CROSSES EGYPTIAN FRONTIER INTO LIBYA,</div> <div> TAKING THE TOWN OF BARDIA.</div> <div>              *     GERMAN AND ITALIAN FORCES INVADE UNOCCUPIED VICHY</div> <div> FRANCE.</div> <div>                                *     THE ALLIES WIN THE FIGHTING FOR MOROCCO AND ALGERIA. </div> <div> AMERICAN GENERAL MARK CLARK SIGNS ARMISTICE WITH</div> <div> ADMIRAL JEAN DARLAN. THIS MAKES DARLAN THE REPRESSIVE</div> <div> LEADER OF NORTH AFRICA.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN FORCES ENTERED THE AREA CONTROLLED BY VICHY</div> <div> FRANCE WITHOUT MEETING ANY RESISTANCE. THE VICHY </div> <div> GOVERNMENT WAS ALLOWED TO FUNCTION, BUT GERMANY</div> <div> WOULD CONDUCT THEIR OWN OPERATIONS IN VICHY'S TERRITORY.</div> <div> GESTAPO OFFICER KLAUS BARBIE ENTERED LYONS, FRANCE TO</div> <div> DESTROY THE FRENCH RESISTANCE AND KILL THE JEWS.  HE</div> <div> WOULD SOON BE CALLED "THE BUTCHER OF LYON".</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 17, 1942             *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GIVES PRESS CONFERENCE AND DEFENDS</div> <div> "DARLAN DEAL" AS TEMPORARY AND QUOTES BULGARIAN</div> <div> PROVERB THAT "YOU ARE PERMITTED IN TIME OF GREAT DANGER</div> <div> TO WALK WITH THE DEVIL UNTIL YOU HAVE CROSSED THE</div> <div> BRIDGE."</div> <div>                                *     THE DEAL IS CRITIZED BY LIBERALS, AND GENERAL DeGAULLE.</div> <div>         *     GERMANY SENDS REINFORCEMENTS TO TUNESIA. </div> <bR> <div> NOV. 19, 1942           THE RUSSIAN ARMY LAUNCHED A TWO-PRONGED COUNTER-ATTACK</div> <div> THAT BROKE THE GERMAN LINES AT STALINGRAD. </div> <bR> <div> NOV. 22, 1942          THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE AT STALINGRAD CUTS OFF THE GERMAN</div> <div> 6TH ARMY. THE GERMANS BECAME SURROUNDED AND BESIEGED.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 27, 1942          FRENCH WARSHIPS IN HARBOR AT TOULON, FRANCE ARE </div> <div> SCUTTLED TO PREVENT SEIZURE BY THE GERMANS.</div> <bR> <div> NOV. 30, 1942           BRITISH AND AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCED ON TO TUNIS, TUNISIA.</div> <div> THE GERMANS ARRIVED 1ST AND STOPPED THE ALLIED ADVANCE</div> <div> AT BIZERBE. THE BRITISH 1ST ARMY AND THE AMERICAN II CORPS</div> <div> FORM A DEFENSIVE LINE AT MEDJEZ-EL-BAB. </div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 82 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DECEMBER 1942             *     EXTERMINATIONS AT BELZEC CAMP CEASE AFTER AN ESTIMATED</div> <div> 600,000 JEWS HAVE BEEN KILLED FROM CARBON MONOXIDE FROM'</div> <div> MOTOR EXHAUST. THE CAMP IS DISMANTLED, PLOWED OVER AND</div> <div>                      TREES PLANTED.</div> <div>         *     PLASZOW CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR) CAMP IS OPENED</div> <div> IN POLAND.</div> <div>              *     YUGOSLAVIAN DINKO SAKIC, ( A CROATIAN) WAS MADE A</div> <div> COMMANDANT OF THE JASENOVAC CAMP, KNOWN AS "THE</div> <div> AUSCHWITZ OF THE BALKANS", WHERE THOUSANDS OF JEWISH</div> <div> CROATIANS WERE TRANSFERRED TO NAZI DEATH CAMPS.</div> <div> HE RAN THE CAMP UNTIL OCTOBER 1944. AFTER THE WAR HE </div> <div> FLED TO ARGENTINA.</div> <div>                                  *     BELGIUM BANK OFFICALS PROTESTED THE TERMS OF THE</div> <div> TRANSACTION AND STATED IT WOULD ACCEPT GERMANY'S</div> <div> PAYMENT IN MARKS USED TO BUY GERMAN GOODS. FRANCE</div> <div> SUPPORTED BELGIUM, SAYING THAT THE GOLD SHOULD BE</div> <div>                      RETURNED TO BELGIUM. GERMANY IGNORED THE REQUEST.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 07, 1942              *     CHELMNO CONCENTRATION (EXTERMINATION) CAMP IS OPENED</div> <div> IN POLAND.</div> <div>              AT THE CHELMO EXTERMINIATION CAMP GASSING BY CARBON</div> <div> MONOXIDE FROM MOTOR EXHAUST BEGAN.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 10, 1942          THE 1ST TRANSPORTS OF JEWS FROM GERMANY ARRIVE AT</div> <div> AUSCHWITZ.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 12, 1942          GERMANS CONDUCT A COUNTER-ATTACK TO RELIEVE THE </div> <div> TRAPPED 6TH ARMY AT STALINGRAD.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 13, 1942          GENERAL ROMMEL WITHDRAWS HIS GERMAN ARMY FROM</div> <div> EL AGLELIA, LIBYA., AS BRITISH FORCES COMMANED BY</div> <div> GENERAL MONTGOMERY ADVANCE.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 16, 1942          RUSSIAN TROOPS DEFEAT ITALIAN 8TH ARMY ON THE DON RIVER</div> <div> IN RUSSIA, AS THE ITALIANS TRY TO RELIEVE THE GERMAN</div> <div> 6TH ARMY. THE RELIEF EFFORT IS ABANDONED.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 17, 1942          BRITISH FOERIGN SECRETARY EDEN TELLS THE BRITISH HOUSE </div> <div> OF COMMONS THE GERMANS "ARE NOW CARRYING OUT HITLER'S</div> <div> ORDERS TO EXTERMINATE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN EUROPE".</div> <div> THE UNITED STATES DECLARES THESE CRIMES WILL BE AVENGED.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 83 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1942</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DEC. 24, 1942             *     COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE ALLIED FORCES IN NORTH</div> <div> AFRICA, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, DECIDES TO POSTPONE THE</div> <div> TUNISIAN OFFENSIVE UNITL THE END OF THE RAINY SEASON.</div> <div>                                *     A FREE FRENCH SYMPATHIZER, BONNIER DE LA CHAPELLE </div> <div> (MURPHY AGENT)  ASSASSINATES ADMIRAL JEAN DARLAN.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 25, 1942          RAIN CAUSES GENERAL EISENHOWER TO POSTPONE TUNIS</div> <div> CAMPAIGN. INSTEAD HE DINES AT ST. GEORGES HOTEL IN</div> <div> CASABLANCA WITH KAY SUMMERSBY.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 28, 1942          STERILIZATION EXPERIMENTS BEGIN ON WOMEN AT BIRKENAU </div> <div> CAMP IN POLAND.</div> <bR> <div> DEC. 29, 1942          HIMMLER SENT HITLER A REPORT LISTING 363,211 JEWS MURDERED</div> <div> IN THE GERMAN OCCUPIED RUSSIA DURING AUGUST THROUGH </div> <div> NOVEMBER 1942.</div> <bR> <div> END-DECEMBER 1942    *     RUSSIA HAS RECEIVED FROM THE ALLIES 2,600 PLANES, 3,200 TANKS,</div> <div> AND 81,000 OTHER VEHICLES TO FIGHT THE GERMAN INVASION.</div> <div>         *     BATTLE OF THE BARENTS SEA, NORTH OF NORWAY AND N.W.</div> <div> OF RUSSIA, BETWEEN GERMAN AND BRITISH SHIPS.</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                               </U></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 84 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1943</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div>   -  ?  -      1943             *     WITH ALL THE MEN SIGNING UP TO FIGHT THE AXIS, INCLUDING</div> <div>                     PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYERS, MR. WRIGLEY - MAKER</div> <div>                     OF WRIGLEY'S GUM, STARTED THE ALL AMERICAN GIRLS</div> <div>                     PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE, AT WRIGLEY FIELDIN</div> <div> CHICAGO, WHICH LASTED UNITL 1954.</div> <div> *     S.S. OFFICER ALOIS BRUNNER, WHO AT ONE TIME WAS THE</div> <div> PRIVATE SECRETARY TO ADOLF EICHMANN,  WAS THE</div> <div> COMMANDANT OF DRANCY CONCENTRATION CAMP OUTSIDE </div> <div> OF PARIS, FRANCE FROM 1943 AND 1944. HE IS RESPOSIBLE FOR </div> <div> USING IT AS A TRANSPORT STATION TO THE GAS CHAMBERS AT</div> <div> OTHER EXTERMINATION CAMPS FOR MORE THAN 25,000 MEN, </div> <div> WOMEN, AND CHILDREN. </div> <bR> <div> JANUARY 1943             *     ROMMEL'S GERMAN FORCES WERE  RETREATING THROUGH</div> <div> TRIPOLITANIA, SLOWING DOWN THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY BY HEAVY</div> <div> USE OF LAND MINES. </div> <div>         *     KNUD DYBY, A  DANISH POLICEMAN AND AS A COORDINATOR OF</div> <div> FISHING BOATS, HELPED TO FERRY THOUSANDS OF JEWS, DANISH</div> <div> RESISTANCE FIGHTERS,  DOWNED ALLIED PILOTS, AND GERMAN</div> <div> DESERTERS TO SAFETY IN SWEDEN.</div> <div>         *     THE NUMBER OF JEWS KILLED BY SS EINSATZGRUPPEN PASSES</div> <div> 1 MILLION. THE NAZI SS USE SPECIAL UNITS OF SLAVE LABORERS</div> <div> TO DIG UP AND BURN THE BODIES TO REMOVE ALL TRACES.</div> <div>         *     THE NEW PENTAGON BUILDING HAD A 5TH FLOOR ADDED TO IT, </div> <div> TO ACCOMDATE MORE EMPLOYEES. THE BUILDING IS COMPLETED</div> <div> AND COST $83 MILLION DOLLARS.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 02 - 03, 1943          THE GERMANS BEGIN TO WITHDRAW FROM THE CAUCASUS REGION</div> <div> IN RUSSIA, NORTHWARD THROUGH ROSTOV.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 08, 1943               ALLIED TM-1 CONVOY LOOSES 7 OF THE 9 OIL TANKERS AND 100,000</div> <div> TONS OF OIL FOR OPERATION TORCH.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 10, 1943               THE RUSSIAS BEGIN THEIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE GERMANS AT</div> <div> STALINGRAD, RUSSIA.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 12, 1943               THE RUSSIANS ATTEMPT TO RAISE THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 14, 1943                FREE FRENCH GENERAL CHARLES DeGAULLE AND GENERAL HENRI</div> <div> GIRAUD PATCHED UP THEIR DIFFERENCES AND JOINED FORCES</div> <div> ALSO AT THE CONFERENCE.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 85 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1943</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JAN. 14 - 23, 1943          AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND BRITISH PRIME MINISTER</div> <div> CHRUCHILL MET AT THE CASABLANCE (SYMBOL) CONFERENCE IN</div> <div> MOROCCO.      PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ANNOUNCES THE WAR CAN </div> <div> ONLY END WITH A POLICY OF "UNCONDITIONAL  SURRENDER" FROM</div> <div> GERMANY,      PLANS FOR INVASION OF SICILY AND ITALY, AND THE</div> <div> DECISION TO INVADE  FRANCE IN 1944, TO SECURE THE ATLANTIC</div> <div> OCEAN, AND THE PROMOTION OF EISENHOWER TO FULL GENERAL</div> <div> "GENERAL OF THE ARMY" (5 STARS) AND OVERALL ALLIED</div> <div> COMMANDER. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> JAN. 16, 1943               THE BRITISH R.A.F. CONDUCT A RAID ON BERLIN, GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 18, 1943                   *     1ST RESISTANCE BY THE JEWS IN THE WARSAW GHETTO, POLAND.</div> <div>                                   *      GERMAN FORCES CONDUCT A LIMITED OFFENSIVE IN TUNISIA.</div> <div>         *     RUSSIAN FORCES REOPEN LAND COMMUNICATIONS WITH</div> <div> LENINGRAD.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 23, 1943                TRIPOLI, LIBYA IS CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY.</div> <div> GERMANS BREAK OFF TUNISIA OFFENSIVE.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 24, 1943               THE CASABLANCA DECISION GIVES THE ATLANTIC WAR THE</div> <div> HIGHEST PRIORITY TO DEFEAT THE GERMAN SUBMARINES.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 27, 1943               1ST AMERICAN BOMBING RAID CONDUCTED BY 8TH AIRFORCE</div> <div> AGAINST WILHELMSHAVEN, GERMANY, WITHOUT A FIGHTER ESCORT.</div> <div> THE FIRST AMERICAN ATTACK ON GERMANY.</div> <bR> <div> JAN. 29, 1943                   *     NAZI GERMANY ORDERS ALL GYPSIES ARRESTED AND SENT TO</div> <div> EXTERMINATION CAMPS.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN GENERAL ROMMEL BEGINS OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN</div> <div> AGINST THE ALLIES FOR TUNSIA.</div> <div> GERMAN GENERAL ALBERT KESSELRING SENT REINFORCEMENTS</div> <div> FROM ITALY.</div> <div>         *     ALLIES FROM THE EAST ATTACK TUNSIA - GENERAL KENNETH</div> <div> ANDERSON'S BRITISH 1ST ARMY AND GENERAL BERNARD</div> <div> MONTGOMERY'S BRITISH 8TH ARMY.                    </div> <div> ALLIES FROM THE WEST ATTACK TUNSIA- GENERAL I.R.</div> <div> FREDENDALL'S AMERICAN  2ND CORPS. IN RESERVE GENERAL </div> <div> MARK CLARK'S AMERICAN 5TH ARMY.</div> <div> GENERAL CARL SPAATZ COMMANDED THE AMERICAN AIR FORCES</div> <div> AND ARTHUR TEDDER WAS THE ALLIED AIR COMMANDER.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 86 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1943</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> JAN. 30, 1943                  *     ERNST KALTENBRUNNER SUCCEEDS HEYDRICH AS HEAD OF</div> <div> THE REICH MAIN SECURITY OFFICE (RSHA) IN POLAND.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN FORCES DROVE AMERICAN AND BRITISH FORCES OUT</div> <div> OF FAID PASS IN TUNSIA. </div> <bR> <div> JAN. 31, 1943                ALLIED PLANES BOMB BERLIN, GERMANY, WHICH DISRUPTS A</div> <div> PARADE BEING ADDRESSED BY REICHSMARSHALL HERMANN</div> <div> GOERING. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> FEBRUARY 1943             *     OVER 800 BOXCARS OF CONFISCATED "POSSESSIONS AND</div> <div> VALUABLES" OF THE JEWS WILL HAVE LEFT AUSCHWITZ WHICH </div> <div> WAS CASHED IN ON BY THE GERMAN SS.</div> <div>                                 *     GENERAL ROMMEL AND HIS AFRIKA CORPS STOPPED THEIR RETREAT</div> <div> BEHIND THE MARETH LINE IN SOUTHERN TUNSIA, ENDING A RETREAT</div> <div> OF 1,400 MILES IN 4 MONTHS.</div> <div>              GENERAL ROMMEL LAUNCHES A SERIES OF ATTACKS TO STOP THE</div> <div> ALLIES FROM CUTTING HIM OFF FROM GENERAL JURGEN VON </div> <div> ARNIM'S 5TH PANZER DIVISION IN BIZERTE AND TUNIS, TUNISIA.</div> <div>         *     THE ROMANIAN GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO THE ALLIES THE</div> <div> TRANSFER OF 70,000 JEWS TO PALESTINE, BUT RECEIVE NO RESPONSE</div> <div> FROM GREAT BRITIAN OR AMERICA.</div> <div>         *     THE GERMANS ORDER GREEK JEWS INTO GHETTOS.</div> <div>         *     PERSIDENT ROOSEVELT OVERRULES KING AND ALLOCATES 250</div> <div> AIRCRAFT FOR THE ATLANTIC WAR.</div> <div>                                *     AMON LEOPOLD GOTH WAS APPOINTED AS SS COMMANDANT</div> <div> OF THE PLASZOW LABOR CAMP IN POLAND. HE IS A BRUTAL</div> <div> AND SADISTIC IN TERRORIZING THE JEWISH PRISONERS WITH</div> <div> RANDMON ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND MURDER. </div> <bR> <div> FEB. 01, 1943               UNITED STATES ARMY'S SIGNAL SECURITY AGENCY (SSA) BEGINS</div> <div> WORK ON RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 02, 1943               GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL, GENERAL FRIEDRICH VON PAULUS</div> <div> SURRENDERED THE GERMAN 6TH ARMY OF 350,000 MEN TO THE</div> <div> RUSSIANS BEFORE THE CITY OF STALINGRAD. OVER 40,000 </div> <div> RUSSIAN CIVILIANS DIED IN THE GERMAN ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE </div> <div> THE RUSSIAN CITY.  THIS IS THE 1ST BIG DEFEAT OF HITLER'S </div> <div> ARMIES. GENERAL PAULUS IS THE 1ST GERMAN FIELD MARSHALL </div> <div> TO SURRENDER AN ARMY.  THE SURRENDER  LEFT THE REST OF </div> <div> THE GERMAN ARMY IN CAUCASUS IN A PERILOUS SITUATION.</div> <div>                                   THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD STOPPED. THE SIEGE WAS 900 DAYS LONG</div> <div> AND OVER 640,000 PEOPLE DIED. THE CITY NEVER DID SURRENDER</div> <div> TO THE GERMANS.</div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 87 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1943</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> FEB. 02, 1943               THE RUSSIAN ARMY ADVANCES TOWARD ROSTOV, KHARKOV,</div> <div> AND KURSK.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 03, 1943               GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL GENERAL PAUL LUDWIG VON KLEIST</div> <div> CONDUCTED A SUCCESSFUL RETREAT WHILE GENERAL MANNSTEIN</div> <div> HELD A CORRIDOR AT ROSTOV, RUSSIA, FOR THE RETREAT.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 04, 1943               THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY ADVANCES INTO TUNISIA FROM LIBYA.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> FEB. 08, 1943               A RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE FROM VORONEZH TOWARDS THE UKRAINE</div> <div> AND CAPTURES THE CITY OF KURSK.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 14, 1943                  *     RUSSIANS CAPTURE THE CITY OF ROSTOV.</div> <div>         *     AMERICAN 1ST ARMORED DIVISION BATTLE GERMAN PANZERS</div> <div> FOR THE KASSERINE PASS IN TUNISIA, NORTH AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 16, 1943                  *     RUSSIAN TROOPS CAPTURE THE CITY OF KHARKOV, RUSSIA. </div> <div>         *     THE HEAVY WATER PLANT IN VERMORK, NORWAY, IS DESTROYED.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 18, 1943                  *     NAZIS ARREST "WHITE ROSE" LEADERS IN MUNICH, GERMANY.</div> <div>         *     PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT STATES" I HEREBY FIND THAT THE</div> <div> DEFENSE OF SAUDI ARABIA IS VITAL TO THE DEFENSE OF THE</div> <div> UNITED STATES."</div> <div>         *     AMERICAN LOANS AND ADVISORS ARE SENT TO SAUDI ARABIA.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 19, 1943               GERMANS CAPTURE THE KASSERINE PASS IN TUNISIA.</div> <div> AMERICAN GENERAL FREDENDALL LOSSES 3,000 CASUALTIES,</div> <div> 3,700 MEN CAPTURED BY THE GERMANS, AND 200 TANKS </div> <div> DESTROYED.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 20, 1943               ROMMEL'S  FORCES BREAKS THROUGH THE KASSERINE PASS</div> <div> IN TUNISIA.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 21, 1943               GERMAN FORCES LAUNCH A COUNTER-OFFENSIVE TOWARDS</div> <div> KHARKOV, RUSSIA.</div> <div>                                     GERMAN GENERAL MANSTEIN'S RUSSIAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE</div> <div> BEGINS FROM THE SOUTH.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 22, 1943               ROMMEL'S FORCES BEGIN TO WITHDRAW THROUGH THE</div> <div> KASSERINE PASS.</div> <bR> <div> FEB. 27, 1943               JEWS WORKING IN BERLIN ARMAMENTS INDUSTRY ARE SENT</div> <div> TO AUSCHWITZ.</div> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 88 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1943</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MARCH 1943                  *     THE AMERICANS RETAKE THE KASSERINE PASS IN TUNISIA.</div> <div>         *     ROMMEL IS STOPPED NEAR TEBESSA, TUNISIA.</div> <div>         *     BEGINNING OF DEPORTATION OF JEWS FROM GREECE TO </div> <div> AUSCHWITZ.</div> <div>              PRISON POPULATION AT AUSCHWITZ IS AT 162,000 INMATES.</div> <div>         *     SACHSENHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, NORTH OF BERLIN</div> <div> GERMANY, USES ZYKLON B GAS AND SEVERAL THOUSAND </div> <div> JEWS WERE GASSED.</div> <div>                         *     KAISERWALD CONCENTRATION (FORCED LABOR) CAMP IS</div> <div> OPENED IN LATAVIA.</div> <div>         *     CHELMNO EXTERMINATION CAMP IN POLAND ENDED OPERATIONS.     </div> <bR> <bR> <div> MAR. 01, 1943          IN NEW YORK CITY, AMERICAN JEWS HELD A RALLY TO PRESSURE</div> <div> THE U.S. GOVERNMENT INTO HELPING THE JEWS IN EUROPE.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 04, 1943          AMERICAN GENERAL GEORGE PATTON ARRIVES IN TUNSIA.</div> <div> HE REPLACES GENERAL FREDENDALL AS II CORPS COMMANDER.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 05, 1943          ALLIED OFFENSIVE BATTLE OF THE RUHR BEGINS. ALLIED</div> <div> PLANES ATTACK ESSEN, GERMANY. HOME OF THE KRUPP</div> <div> INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 06, 1943          ROMMEL'S AFRIKA CORPS ATTACKS THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY</div> <div> ON THE MARETH LINE, TUNISIA. THE BRITISH HOLD THE LINE.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 12, 1943          RUSSIAN FORCES CAPTURE THE TOWN OF VYAZMA.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 14, 1943          THE KRAKOW GHETTO IN POLAND WAS LIQUIDATED BY ORDER </div> <div> OF SS COMMANDER HIMMLER AND THE GERMANS TRANSFERED</div> <div> SEVERAL THOUSAND JEWS TO THE NEARBY PLASZOW LABOR CAMP.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 15, 1943          A GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK RECAPTURES THE RUSSIAN CITY</div> <div> OF KHARKOV AND NEARLY NARROWLY MISSED TRAPPING</div> <div> LARGE RUSSIAN FORCES.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 16 - 20, 1943          THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC CLIMAXES WITH 27 MERCHANT</div> <div> SHIPS SUNK BY GERMAN U-BOATS.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 17, 1943             *     THE AMERICAN II CORPS ATTACKS THE GERMAN REAR AT EL</div> <div> GUETTAR, TUNISIA.  AMERICAN ATTACK WAS A DIVERSION</div> <div> WITH THE MAIN ATTACK BY THE BRITISH IN THE EAST.</div> <div>                                *     BULGARIA PROTESTS THE DEPORTATION OF ITS JEWS.</div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 89 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1943</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> MAR. 20, 1943           BRITISH GENERAL MONTGOMERY ATTACKS THE GERMANS</div> <div> ON THE MARETH LINE.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 27, 1943          THE GERMANS GIVE UP THE MARETH LINE IN TUNISIA AS THE</div> <div> BRITISH BREAK THROUGH. THE GERMANS RETREAT 50 MILES</div> <div> NORTHWARD.</div> <bR> <div> MAR. 22, 1943          NEWLY BUILT GAS CHAMBER/CREMATORY IV OPEN AT AUSCHWITZ.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> MAR. 31, 1943          NEWLY BUILT GAS CHAMBER/CREMATORY II OPENS AT</div> <div> AUSCHWITZ.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 1943                  *     THE GERMANS NOW WERE LOSSING 1 SUBMARINE FOR EVERY</div> <div> AMERICAN SHIP SUNK BECAUSE ESCORT CARRIERS, DESTROYER</div> <div> ESCORTS, AND LONG RANGE BOMBER PATROLS BECAME AVAILABE. </div> <div>         *     BERGEN-BELSEN CONCENTRATION (HOLDING CENTER) CAMP </div> <div> NORTHWEST OF CELLE, GERMANY, IS OPENED.</div> <div>         *     CHELMNO CONCENTRATION CAMP IN POLAND IS CLOSED BY</div> <div> THE GERMANS, TEMPORARLY.</div> <div>         *     THE GERMAN P.O.W. CAMP CALLED STALAG (LUFT) III WAS</div> <div> ESTABLISHED. IT IS SITUATED IN THE FOREST NEAR THE TOWN </div> <div> OF SAGAN, POLAND. AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS EXISTENCE IT </div> <div> CONTAINED 10,000 ALLIED P.O.W.'S IN CAMP.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 01, 1943          AMERICAN GENERAL PATTON'S FORCES DRIVE TOWARDS GABES.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 04, 1943          NEWLY BUILT GAS CHAMBER/CREMATORY V OPENS AT AUSCHWITZ.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 06 - 07, 1943           WITH CONTINUED PRESSURE BY THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY ON THE</div> <div> GERMANS, THE AMERICAN II CORPS ON THE BRITISH FLANK WAS</div> <div> FREED AND JOIN FORCES. GERMAN AND ITALIAN FORCES IN</div> <div> TUNISIA BEGIN TO WITHDRAWAL TOWARDS ENFIDAVILLE,</div> <div> NORTH AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 09, 1943          EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS AT THE CHELMNO CAMP STOPS.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 10, 1943          KGB NEW YORK RESIDENT AGENT VASSILL ZARUBIN MEETS CPUSA</div> <div> OFFICAL STEVE NELSON AND DISCUSSES ESPIONAGE MISSION.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 19, 1943          WAFFEN SS TROOPS ATTACK THE JEWISH RESISTANCE IN WARSAW</div> <div> GHETTO IN POLAND, IN AN ATTEMPT TO STOP THE GERMANS FROM</div> <div> DEPORTING THEM TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS.  </div> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 90 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1943</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> DATE:                    EVENT:</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                                                                                             </U></div> <div> APRIL 19 - 30, 1943          THE BERMUDA CONFERENCE TAKES PLACE AS REPRESENTATIVES</div> <div> FROM AMERICAN AND BRITIAN DISCUSS THE PROBLEM OF </div> <div> REFUGEES FROM NAZI-OCCUPIED COUNTRIES. THE RESULTS DUE</div> <div> TO INACTION CONCERING THE PLIGHT OF THE JEWS.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 22, 1943          ALLIES SHOOT DOWN 16 OF 21 GERMAN MOTORIZED GLIDERS</div> <div> IN TUNISA.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 23, 1943          BRITISH AND AMERICAN STAFF IS ESTABLISHED IN ENGLAND</div> <div> COMMANED BY LT. GENERAL SIR FREDERICK E. MORGAN.</div> <div> STAFF IS TO PLAN THE INVASION OF NORTHWESTERN EUROPE.</div> <bR> <div> APRIL 30, 1943          GERMAN TANKS RUNNING OUT OF FUEL IN TUNSIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 1943                  *     GERMAN SS DOCTOR JOSEF MENGELE ASSUMED THE POSITION AS</div> <div> AUSCHWITZ CAMP DOCTOR, WHERE HE CONDUCTS EXPIRMENTS</div> <div> ON CHILDREN, DWARFS, AND TWINS. HE IS CALLED: THE ANGEL</div> <div> OF DEATH.</div> <div>         *     GERMAN ADMIRAL DONITZ'S LOOSES 43 SUBMARINE AND ONLY </div> <div> SINKS 34 ALLIED SHIPS IN THE ATLANTIC.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 01, 1943          PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CREATES THE 10TH NAVAL FLEET.</div> <bR> <div> MAY. 02, 1943          ROMMEL'S AFRIKA CORPS BEGINS TO WITHDRAWAL FROM </div> <div> TUNISIA, NORTH AFRICA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 04, 1943          ALLIED FORCES BEGIN FINAL OFFENSIVE IJN TUNISIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 05, 1943          AMERICAN GENERAL GEORGE PATTON, COMMANDING THE II CORPS,</div> <div> DIRECTED THE TROOPS NORTH, AROUND THE BRITISH 1ST ARMY,</div> <div> AND ATTACKES THE PORT TOWN OF BIZERTE, ALONG THE TUNISIAN</div> <div> NORTHERN COAST.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 07, 1943             *     THE BRITISH 8TH ARMY CAPTURES TUNIS, CAPITAL OF TUNISIA.</div> <div>         *     THE AMERICAN FORCE CAPTURES THE TOWN OF BIZERTE, TUNISIA.</div> <div>         *     THE GERMAN AIR FORCE (LUFTWAFFE) ABANDONS TUNSIA.</div> <bR> <div> MAY 08, 1943          AMERICAN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WROTE THAT FRENCH</div> <div>                     GENERAL CHARLES DeGAULLE'S "CONDUCT CONTINUES TO</div> <div>                     BE MORE AND MORE AGGRAVATED AND HIS ATTITUDE IS</div> <div>                     INTOLERABLE, WITH A MESSSIANIC COMPLEX".  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> WORLD WAR II</div> <div> - 91 -</div> <bR> <div>        THE WAR IN EUROPE</div> <div>   1943</div> <div> <U>                                                                                                  &nbsp