Shawn Janes, Author at World War 2 Collection

This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of January

By Shawn Janes |

1941
Washington Conference ends.

1942
Operation Compass, Operation Crusader, Operation Drumbeat, and Battle of Bataan.

1943
Casablanca Conference begins.
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This Week in WWII – 1st Week of January

By Shawn Janes |

1932
Assassination attempt on Hitler at the Berlin Hotel Kaiserhof. Hitler’s food is poisoned.

1940
Rationing begins in the U.K.

1941
Dutch Jews are forbidden to enter movie theaters.
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This Week in WWII – 4th Week of December

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1939
First flight of the B-24 bomber takes place.

1940
President Roosevelt quoted saying, “the Axis not merely admits, but proclaims that there can be no ultimate peace between their philosophy of government and our philosophy of government.”
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This Week in WWII – 3rd Week of December

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1939
First Canadian troops arrive in Britain.
1940
Hitler issued a definitive directive that Operation Barbarossa would begin on May 15, 1941…it didn’t actually begin until 6/22/1941.
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This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of December

By Shawn Janes |

1941
Prince of Wales and Repulse sunk north of Singapore. Germany and Italy declare war on US. Japanese troops enter Burma.
1942
Hitler appoints Anton Mussert as the leader of the Netherlands.
1943
8th AF attacks Kassel, Germany.
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This Week in WWII – 1st Week of December

By Shawn Janes |

1941
Pearl Harbor: Japan attacks U.S. First Canadian troops arrive in Britain. U.S. declares war on Germany and Allies (not USSR) declare war on Japan.

1942
The first nuclear reactor goes critical at the University of Chicago under the leadership and design of Enrico Fermi.
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This Week in WWII – 4th Week of November

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1937
Assassination attempt on Hitler by Josef Thomas in Berlin.

1940
The puppet government of Czechoslovakia signs the Axis Tripartite Pact.
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This Week in WWII – 3rd Week of November

By Shawn Janes |

1939
The first barricades are erected around the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.

1940
Greece repels the Italian invasion and invades Albania, an Italian colony. Nazi attacks on Coventry. Romania enters the war with the Axis powers.
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This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of November

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1918 – WWI ends.

1938 – Kristallnacht – “The Night of Broken Glass.” German citizens loot and burn 7000+ Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues. 30,000 Jews are arrested and sent to Concentration Camps.

This Week in WWII – 1st Week of November

By Shawn Janes |

1938
German troops occupy the Sudetanland.
1940
Night-time raids throughout London and Manchester and fifteen airfields attacked. Germans postpone Operation Sea Lion until Spring of 1941. Jews are formally banned from public service, industry, the media and positions of authority in Vichy, France.
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