1943: When We Were Kids

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	1943 A Brief History of the events that shaped 1943.

January
2nd	Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus.
10th	Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad.
14th	Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt begins (During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with an unconditional German surrender).
23rd	Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli.
27th	First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).
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February
2nd	Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
8th	Soviet troops take Kursk.
14th	Battle of Kasserine Pass begins between the U.S. 1st Armored Division and German Panzers in North Africa.
16th	Soviets re-take Kharkov.
18th	Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich.
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March
2nd	Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa.
15th	Germans re-capture Kharkov.
16th	Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats.
20th	Montgomery's Eighth Army breaks through the Mareth Line in Tunisia.
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April
6th	Axis forces in Tunisia begin a withdrawal toward Enfidaville as American and British forces link.
19th	Waffen SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto.
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May
7th	Allies take Tunisia.
13th	German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.
16th	Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends.
16th	British air raid on the Ruhr.
22nd	Dönitz suspends U-boat operations in the North Atlantic.
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June
10th	'Pointblank' directive to improve Allied bombing strategy issued.
11th	Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.
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July
5th	Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk.
9th	Allies land in Sicily.
19th	Allies bomb Rome.
22nd	Americans capture Palermo, Sicily.
24th	British bombing raid on Hamburg.
25th	Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls. Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies.
27th	Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg.
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August
12th	Germans start to evacuate Sicily.
17th	American daylight air raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt in Germany.
17th	Allies reach Messina, Sicily.
23rd	Soviet troops recapture Kharkov.
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September
8th	Italian surrender is announced.
9th	Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto.
11th	Germans occupy Rome.
12th	Germans rescue Mussolini.
23rd	Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government.
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October
1st	Allies enter Naples, Italy.
4th	SS Reichsführer Himmler gives speech at Posen.
13th	Italy declares war on Germany; Second American air raid on Schweinfurt.
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November
6th	Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine.
18th	Large British air raid on Berlin.
28th	Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet in Teheran.
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December
24th	Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front.
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