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1. June 8, 1941, Allies invade Syria
2. June 22, 1941, Germany invades the Soviet Union
3. June 28, 1941, Germans captures Minsk, White Russia S.S.R.
4. Aug 14, 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill announce Atlantic Charter
5. Aug 20, 1941, 3 year seige of Leningrad begins
6. Sep 19, 1941, Germans capture Kiev, Ukraine S.S.R.
7. Dec 5, 1941, German advance stalls outside of Moscow
8. Dec 11, 1941, Germany declares war on the United States
9. Jan 1, 1942, 26 allied nations create the United Nations
10. Jan 20, 1942, the Final Solution is announced
11. Jan 26, 1942, first Americans arrive in the United Kingdom
12. May 30, 1942, first 1000 bomber raid on Germany (Cologne)
13. June 1942, gassing of Jews begins at Auschwitz
14. June 21, 1942, Germans capture Tobruk, Libya
15. July 1-Nov 4, 1942, Battles around El Alamein, Egypt
16. July 5, 1942, Germans capture the Crimean Peninsula
17. July 22, 1942, Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto begins
18. Aug 17, 1942, first all American bombing raid (Rouen, France)
19. Sep 13, 1942, battle of Stalingrad begins
20. Nov 8, 1942, American forces invade Morocco and Algeria
21. Nov 11, 1942, Germany occupies Vichy France
22. Nov 19, 1942, Soviets launch Operation Uranus, the encirclement of Stalingrad

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