1932
Japanese forces in Manchuria set up a puppet government known as Manchukuo.
1936
In Berlin, Nazi officials claim that their treatment of Jews is not the business of the League of Nations.
1940
Charles Edison (son of Thomas) becomes US Secretary of the Navy.
1941
Royal Navy bombards Bardia in North Africa day and night.
1942
The Red Army achieves a breakthrough at Rzhev.
British troops are outflanked by the Japanese at Kampar in Malaya and begin to withdraw to the river Slim.
Japanese troops enter Manila and the U.S. Naval base at Cavite falls as US-Filipino forces retreat into the Bataan Peninsula.
British and South African troops take Bardia, Libya after a long siege.
Thirty-three members of a German spy ring under Fritz Duquesne are convicted in the largest espionage case in US history.
US Army orders 300,000 D-ration chocolate bars from Hershey, designed to melt at higher temperatures and not taste too good, so
1943
Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu meets with Hitler and expresses concern about the unfolding disaster at Stalingrad.
Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus.
The allies take Buna in New Guinea.
The Libian port of Tripoli is closed to Axis ships due to Allied bombing.
1944
Hitler’s Chancellery is reported 75 per cent destroyed with many trapped in the shelters below after a direct hit during an RAF raid on Berlin.
Wing Commander John Cunningham makes it 19-all with Wing Commander J. R. Braham in night-fighter air-ace’s ‘league’.
US Marines land at Saidor in northern New Guinea.
1945
Danish saboteurs wreck a V2 factory in Copenhagen.
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey dies in plane crash near Paris and becomes the fourth prominent allied leader to die like this.
American Sikorsky helicopter is used in convoy escort for first time.
