Today in WW II History
World War II History for November 14
1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.
German bombers devastate the English city of Coventry, demolishing tens of thousands of buildings and killing hundreds of men, women, and children. [...]
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World War II History for October 29
1942 - The British protest against the persecution of Jews
On this day in 1942, leading British clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register their outrage over the persecution of Jews by Nazi Germany.
In a message sent to the meeting, Prime Minister Winston [...]
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World War II History for October 27
1940 - French General Charles de Gualle set up the Empire Defense Council.
In 1940, French Gen. Charles de Gaulle, speaking for the Free French Forces from his temporary headquarter in equatorial Africa, calls all French men and women everywhere to join the struggle to preserve [...]
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World War II History for October 9
1939 - The U.S. Neutrality Act suffers a public relations setback when the German battleship Deutschland captures the City of Flint, an American cargo ship carrying farming supplies to England.
1940 - London’s Cathedral of St. Paul sustains serious damage to the roof and altar [...]
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World War II History for October 5
1942 - Joseph Stalin sent a telegram to the German/Soviet front at Stalingrad. The message was “That part of Stalingrad which has been captured must be liberated.”
Stalingrad was a key to capturing the Soviet Union, in many ways as important as capturing Moscow itself. [...]
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World War II History for August 14
1941 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter. The charter was a statement of principles that renounced aggression.
1944 - The U.S. federal government allowed the manufacture of certain domestic appliances to resume on a limited basis.
1945 - It [...]
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World War II History for August 12
1938 - The German military was mobilized.
1938 - Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross
On this day in 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross, to encourage German women to have more children, to be awarded each year on August 12, Hitler’s mother’s birthday.
The German Reich needed [...]
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World War II History for August 5
1944 - Polish insurgents liberated a German labor camp in Warsaw. 348 Jewish prisoners were freed.
On this day in 1944, Polish insurgents liberate a German forced-labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners, who join in a general uprising against the German occupiers of [...]
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World War II History for July 26
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt seized all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.
1945 - Winston Churchill resigned as Britain’s prime minister.
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World War II History for July 17
1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. During the meeting Stalin made the comment that “Hitler had escaped.”
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