Graphic Year of 
1942
| Graphic Year of |
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| 1942 |
| Jan 1: Allies forge Declaration of the United Nations 13: German U-boats begin sinking ships off American coast in "Operation Drumbeat" Jan. 20 Nazis formulate "Final Solution", the systematic destruction of the Jewish people Jan. 21 Rommel counter-attacks in North Africa |
Feb 11: British Army attacks Italian Somaliland 12: Erwin Rommel assumes command of German Afrika Korps |
Mar 7: British Army comes to the aid of Greece 11: Lend-Lease Act signed by Roosevelt |
| Apr American citizens of Japanese descent forced into "relocation centers" |
May Germans launch summer offensive in the Crimea 30: Royal Air Force launches first 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne, Germany |
June Final Solution implemented; Auschwitz begins gassing Jews 4: S.S. Leader Rheinhardt Heydrich dies of wounds sustained in partisan attack at Prague 5: German siege of Sevastopol begins 10: Nazis annihilate Czech town of Lidice in retaliation for Heydrich's assassination 21: Tobruk falls to German Afrika Korps |
| July 3: Sevastopol falls to German Army 5: Nazi conquest of Crimea achieved 9: German Army launches push towards Stalingrad |
Aug 7: General Bernard Montgomery assumes command of British Eighth Army in North Afirca |
Sept 13: German attack on Stalingrad begins |
| Oct B.of El Alamein begins |
Nov 3: Afrika Korps decisively defeated by British at El Alamein 8: Allied invasion of North Africa begins in "Operation Torch" 11: Axis forces occupy Vichy France 19: Soviet forces encircle German Sixth Army at Stalingrad |
Dec 31: German and British ships engage in the Battle of the Barents Sea |
1942