World War II History for November 30
1939 - The Soviet Union attacked Finland.
the Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. Helsinki was bombed, and 61 Finns were killed in an air raid that steeled the Finns for resistance, not capitulation.
The overwhelming forces arrayed against Finland convinced most Western nations, as [...]
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World War II History for November 6
1941 - Josef Stalin addressed the Soviet people for only the second time in his three-decade reign of terror. The day was the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution.
The rally was held underground, in the marbled halls of the Mayakovsky train station. There, Stalin [...]
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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 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 8
1941 - German General Franz Halder recorded in his diary Adolf Hitler’s plans for Moscow and Leningrad
“To dispose fully of their population, which otherwise we shall have to feed during the winter.”
On June 22, the Germans had launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, [...]
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World War II History for June 8
1941 - The Allies, British and Free French forces, invaded Syria and Lebanon.
1944 - Russian Premier Joseph Stalin telegraphed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to announce that the Allied success at Normandy “is a source of joy to us all,” and promised to launch his own [...]
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World War II History for May 6
1941 - Joseph Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership.
1941 - Bob Hope gave his first USO show at California’s March Field.
1942 - All American forces in the Philippines surrender unconditionally.
Today day in 1942, U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders all U.S. troops in the Philippines to the [...]
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World War II History for May 1
1927 - Adolf Hitler held his first Nazi meeting in Berlin.
1937 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.
1944 - The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, [...]
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World War II History for April 3
1922 - Stalin Succeeds Lenin
After the October Revolution of 1917, Stalin entered the Soviet cabinet as People’s Commissar for Nationalities and began to emerge as a leader of the new regime. Lenin thought Stalin was a good administrator but strongly criticized his conduct as general [...]
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