1942

1 Jan	Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 nations.
1 Jan	Soviet troops begins offensive against Finland.
2 Jan	Japanese troops capture Manila, Phillipines.
10 Jan	Japanese troops invade Netherlands East Indies.
11 Jan	Japanese troops capture Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
12 Jan	Japanese troops invade Burma.
13 Jan	German U-boats begin an offensive along east coast of USA.
13 Jan	Soviet troops recapture Kiev.
20 Jan	SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich chairs to the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question".
21 Jan	German troops in North Africa begins an offensive.
25 Jan	Japanese troops land on the Salomon Islands.
26 Jan	The first american troops arrive in Britain.
15 Feb	Japanese troops capture Singapore.
19 Feb	Japanese troops capture Bali.
20 Feb	Japanese troops capture Timor.
8 Mar	Japanese troops capture Rangoon, Burma.
9 Mar	Japanese troops capture Java.
20 Mar	First use of the gaschambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Apr	Japanese-American sent to relocation camps.
18 Apr	USA bombs Tokyo and Yokohama. (Doolittle raid)
1 May	Japanese troops capture Mandalay, Burma.
4 May	Battle of the Coral Sea. Japan loses aircraft carrier Shoho and USA loses USS Lexington.
6 May	British troops capture Madagaskar.
6 May	The american troops on Phillipines surrenders.
8 May	German troops begin offensive on the Crimea.
22 May	Mexico declare war on the axis powers.

Reinhardt Heydrich

27 May	Assination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. He dies 4 June.
28 May	German troops capture Kharkov.
4 June	Battle of Midway ends with one american aircraft (USS Yorktown) and four japanese (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu) aircraft carriers sunk.
10 June	German troops destroys Lidicie in retaliation of the murder of Heydrich.
21 June	German troops capture Tobruk, Libya.
24 June	German troops enter Egypt
3 July	German troops capture Sevastopol.
3 July	Japanese troops land at Guadalcanal.
22 July	Deportation of jews from Warsaw to Treblinka begins.
27 July	German troops capture Rostov.
7 Aug	American troops land on Guadalcanal.
12 Aug	Churchill and Stalin meet in Moscow.
19 Aug	Failed allied raid on Dieppe.
22 Aug	Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
31 Aug	German troops attack the british at El Alamein.
16 Sep	German troops reach Stalingrad.
23 Oct	Battle of El Alamein begins.
8 Nov	The Allies land in north-west Africa (Operation Torch).
11 Nov	German troops invade Vichy France.
11 Nov	British troops enters Libya.
13 Nov	British troops capture Tobruk.
19 Nov	Soviet troops begin counter-offensive at Stalingrad.
27 Nov	The french fleet in Toulon is sunk.
30 Nov	Fierce german resistance halts the allied offensive in North Africa.
18 Dec	The allies declare that the crimes against jews will be avenged.