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Explore June 11, 1940 – February 4, 1943

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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Battle of Singapore 1942-02-08 - 1942-02-15
Bataan Death March 1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway 1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre 1942-06-10
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942-10-25 - 1942-10-27
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944

People

Adolf Hitler age 51
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 58
President - United States
Hirohito age 39
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 44
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 20
Shah - Iran
Philippe Pétain age 84
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Reza Shah age 62
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 58
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 70
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 38
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 20
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 45
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 16
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 43
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 57
President - Republic of China
Jorge Ubico age 61
President - Guatemala
Bahij al-Khatib age 45
President - Syria
Albert Lebrun age 68
President - France
Winston Churchill age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 50
Chairman - Soviet Union
Hideki Tojo age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Éamon de Valera age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pierre Laval age 56
Head of Government - Vichy France
Władysław Sikorski age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Fumimaro Konoe age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 70
Prime Minister - South Africa
Paul Reynaud age 61
Prime Minister - France
François Darlan age 58
Vice-President of the Council - Vichy France
J. Sigfrid Edström age 69
President - International Olympic Committee
Mitsumasa Yonai age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Dušan Simović age 57
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Dragiša Cvetković age 47
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Joseph Avenol age 61
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Seán Lester age 51
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Khalid al-Azm age 45
Prime Minister - Syria
Aly Maher Pasha age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Jamil al-Elshi age 57
Prime Minister - Syria
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 39
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ramón Zaydín age 45
Prime Minister - Cuba
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
Husni al-Barazi age 45
Prime Minister - Syria
Hassan al-Hakim age 54
Prime Minister - Syria
Charles Evans Hughes age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace age 51
Vice President - United States
John Nance Garner age 71
Vice President - United States
William D. Leahy age 65
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Hermann Göring age 47
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rudolf Hess age 46
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 68
Secretary Of State - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 72
Secretary of War - United States
Robert H. Jackson age 48
Attorney General - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 49
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Francis Biddle age 54
Attorney General - United States
Herbert Morrison age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Harry Hines Woodring age 53
Secretary of War - United States
Kingsley Wood age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 49
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 39
Chief Of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 45
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Neville Chamberlain age 71
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Clement Attlee age 57
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Wilhelm Frick age 63
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
James F. Byrnes age 58
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 47
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 60
President - Sinn Féin
Harry S. Truman age 56
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 62
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 31
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 77
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 49
Governor of California - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 49
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 47
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 64
King - Saudi Arabia
Norodom Sihanouk age 17
King - Cambodia
İsmet İnönü age 55
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 59
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 67
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 82
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 69
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 18
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rafael Trujillo age 48
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 14
King - Thailand
Konstantin Päts age 66
President - Estonia
Jozef Tiso age 52
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 30
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 61
President - Philippines
Risto Ryti age 51
President - Finland
Antanas Smetona age 65
President - Lithuania
Douglas Hyde age 80
President - Ireland
Kārlis Ulmanis age 62
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 67
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 46
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 44
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 40
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 44
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 70
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 69
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 29
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 55
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 35
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 57
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 61
President - Chile
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 51
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 40
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 64
King - Cambodia
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 53
President - Argentina
Arnulfo Arias age 38
President - Panama
Ramón Castillo age 66
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 52
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 64
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 58
President - Liberia
Antanas Merkys age 53
President - Lithuania
José Félix Estigarribia age 52
President - Paraguay
Eleazar López Contreras age 57
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 51
President - Colombia
Enrique Peñaranda age 46
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 51
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 54
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Justas Paleckis age 41
President - Lithuania
Philipp Etter age 48
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 55
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 42
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 43
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 46
President - Ecuador
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 50
President - Switzerland
Émile Eddé age 57
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 85
Emir - Qatar
Ernst Wetter age 62
President - Switzerland
Élie Lescot age 56
President - Haiti
Enrico Celio age 51
President - Switzerland
Stenio Vincent age 66
President - Haiti
Alfred Naqqache age 52
President - Lebanon
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 38
Regent - Lesotho
Giuliano Gozi age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Andrés F. Córdova age 48
President - Ecuador
Julio Enrique Moreno age 61
President - Ecuador
Hamad I of Bahrain age 68
Hakim - Bahrain
Seeiso of Basutoland age 35
King - Lesotho
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 58
President - Mongolia
Gabasheane Masupha age 36
King - Lesotho
António de Oliveira Salazar age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 58
Prime Minister - Romania
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 42
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ioannis Metaxas age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 65
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 45
Prime Minister - Australia
John Curtin age 55
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 45
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Pál Teleki age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Per Albin Hansson age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Arthur Fadden age 46
Prime Minister - Australia
Thorvald Stauning age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 48
Prime Minister - Iraq
Jüri Uluots age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Nuri as-Said age 52
Prime Minister - Iraq
Bogdan Filov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
László Bárdossy age 49
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ólafur Thors age 48
Prime Minister - Iceland
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 53
Prime Minister - Turkey
Hubert Pierlot age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Miklós Kállay age 53
Prime Minister - Hungary
Dirk Jan de Geer age 69
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 45
Prime Minister - Finland
Alexandros Koryzis age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Erik Scavenius age 62
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johannes Vares age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Hermann Jónasson age 43
Prime Minister - Iceland
Georgios Tsolakoglou age 54
Prime Minister - Greece
Shefqet Vërlaci age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Vilhelm Buhl age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Pierre Dupong age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Björn Þórðarson age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Peter Fraser age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 67
Prime Minister - Latvia
Ion Gigurtu age 54
Prime Minister - Romania
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 61
Prime Minister - Greece
Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer age 59
Acting Prime Minister - Hungary
Taha al-Hashimi age 52
Prime Minister - Iraq
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 55
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Jamil al-Midfai age 50
Prime Minister - Iraq
Josef Hoop age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Makonnen Endelkachew age 50
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 52
Prime Minister - Tonga