1943

2 Jan	German troops begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus.
8 Jan	The uprising in the jewish ghetto in Warsaw begins.
10 Jan	Soviet troops begin offensive at Stalingrad.
14 Jan	Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. Roosevelt announces the war can end only with an unconditional German surrender.
18 Jan	German troops begin an counter-offensive in Tunisia.
23 Jan	British troops halt the german offensive and captures Tripoli.
31 Jan	German troops av Stalingrad surrenders.
4 Feb	British troops enter Tunisia from Libya.
8 Feb	Soviet troops recapture Kursk.
8 Feb	US troops capture Gaudalcanal.
14 Feb	Soviet troops recapture Rostov.
16 Feb	Soviet troops recapture Kharkov.
15 Mar	German troops capture Kharkov.
7 Apr	Bolivia declares war on the axis powers.
19 Apr	German troops attack the Warsaw ghetto.
26 Apr	Stalin severs all contact with the polish government in exile.
4 May	The allies begin the final offensive in Tunisia.
7 May	The allies capture Tunis.
13 May	The german and italian troops in North Africa surrenders.
16 May	The Warsaw ghetto uprising is put down and the ghetto destroyed.
17 May	Royal Air Force bomb the Ruhr.
18 May	The allies begin bombing the island of Pantelleria.
11 June	Pantelleria surrenders.
5 July	German offensive at Kurks (the last large german offensive on the Eastern front).

9 July	The allies land in Sicily. (Operation Husky)
22 July	The allies capture Palermo.
25 July	Benito Mussolini is ousted by the Great Fascist Council and replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1 Aug	Japanese puppet-regime founded in Burma.
23 Aug	Soviet troops recapture Kharkov.
3 Sep	Allied troops land on the italian mainland.
3 Sep	Italy signs armistice.
8 Sep	Italian surrender announced.
9 Sep	The allies capture Taranto, Italien.
10 Sep	German troops capture Rome.
11 Sep	German counter-offensive at Salerno.
12 Sep	German troops led by Otto Skorzeny liberate Mussolini.
17 Sep	German offensive halted at Salerno.
18 Sep	The allies capture Sardinia.
23 Sep	Mussolini proclamins Repubblica Sociale Italiana (RSI) in the (german controlled) northern Italy.
25 Sep	Soviet troops recapture Smolensk.
1 Oct	The allies capture Neapel.
4 Oct	German troops capture Kos.
4 Oct	The allies capture Corsica.
13 Oct	Italy declares war on Germany
6 Nov	Soviet troops recapture Kiev.
28 Nov	Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet in Teheran.