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CHRISTMAS During WW2

By Ross Greene |

CHRISTMAS During WW2

This Week in WWII – 3rd Week of December

By Shawn Janes |

1939
First Canadian troops arrive in Britain.

1940
Hitler issues a definitive directive that Operation Barbarossa would begin on May 15, 1941; however, it would not 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 are sunk north of Singapore. Germany and Italy declare war on U.S. Japanese troops enter Burma. Japanese forces land in Penang and Gurun, on the Malaya Peninsula.

1942
Hitler appoints Anton Mussert as the leader of the Nederlands.
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Seventy-one years ago, December 7, 1941 the US “was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” as FDR said. It was truly a “day that will live in infamy,” and will never be forgotten.”

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

By Shawn Janes |

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

By Shawn Janes |

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 |

1923 – Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch: a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8 November and the early afternoon of 9 November 1923, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler…

1932 – Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.