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Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of the late President is appointed as one of first U.S. delegates to the UN.
The Senate votes for U.S. help in establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
The U.S. Senate votes to allow the USA to join the UN and to permit the UN to use American forces to preserve peace and security.
Peru declares war against Germany.
Paraguay declares war on Germany.
Ecuador declares war on Germany.
Ecuador declares war on Germany.
The first of 9,000 balloon bombs launched against US from Tokyo reach the U.S.A. One bomb kills six people near Lakeview in Oregon.
Roosevelt and Churchill meet at Quebec where they initial the Morgenthau Plan that calls for the division of post-war Germany and its transformation into a purely agricultural country.
The Russians liberate Maidanek Concentration Camp near Lublin, where 360,000 people perished.
President Roosevelt signs the GI Bill of Rights which promises to provide funds for housing and education after the war for returning US servicemen.
Total U.S. casualties so far are put at 19,499 killed, 45,545 wounded, 26,339 missing and 26,754 captured.
In response to political pressure to help Jews under Nazi control, Roosevelt creates the War Refugee Board.
Bolivia declares war on all the Axis powers.
Nazis carry out Operation Harvest Festival in occupied Poland, killing 42,000 Jews.
Meat rationing begins in the USA and is set at 28oz per week.
Shoe rationing begins in the USA, limiting civilians to three pairs of leather shoes per year.
Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps.
Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu meets with Hitler and expresses concern about the unfolding disaster at Stalingrad.
Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu meets with Hitler and expresses concern about the unfolding disaster at Stalingrad.
At Auschwitz, a second gas chamber, Bunker II (the white farmhouse), is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving.
The damaged British escort cruiser HMS Trinidad returning from Murmansk is sunk by Luftwaffe dive-bombers off the northern Norwegian coast.
The damaged British escort cruiser HMS Trinidad returning from Murmansk is sunk by Luftwaffe dive-bombers off the northern Norwegian coast.
US General Stilwell becomes Chiang Kai-shek’s Chief of Staff.
The debate in the House of Commons comes to a close with many speakers being sharply critical of government policy, with the bombing of Germany being called in to question.
Roosevelt announces that US forces are to be based in UK.
British forces take Bardia, along with 8,000 Axis prisoners.
Japanese war planes attack Pearl Harbor in a suprise attack.
Japan makes proposals to the USA in order to improve relations. They demand that the USA stop supplying war materials to China and that they normalise trade relations. These are rejected by the USA, although both sides agree to continue talks.
The US Senate passes the 'Lend Lease' bill by 60 votes to 31.
The US Navy is reorganised in to the Atlantic, Pacific and Asiatic fleets and ordered to gradually bring ship crews up to war establishment.
The USA informs the Soviet Union that the "moral embargo" imposed on it after its 1939 attack on Finland no longer applies.
US budget includes $17,500,000,000 defence appropriation.
First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.
Roosevelt is elected as President of USA for an unprecedented third term with 54 percent of the popular vote. He defeats Republican Wendell L. Willke.
Britain reopens the Burma road, which had been closed for three months on the condition of progress being made towards peace between Japan and China.
President Roosevelt lays down "five fundamentals of freedom": freedom from fear, of information, of religion, of expression, and from want.
The Luftwaffe attacks the British Fleets anchorage at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. This raid causes the death of a British civilian, the first of the war.
The British destroyer Cossack, enters a Norwegian fjord, captures the German freighter Altmark, former supply ship of the Graf Spee and frees 300 British merchant seamen who were captured from vessels sunk by the Graf Spee in the South Atlantic.
President Roosevelt signed the Neutrality Act allowing the US to send arms and other aids to Britain and France.
American aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh makes his first anti-intervention radio speech.
After a formal parliamentary debate, Canada declares war on Germany.
The United States declares its neutrality in World War ll.
Germany invades Poland starting a World War ll. This attack was without warning.
Japan and the Soviet Union fought a fierce, large-scale undeclared war on the Mongolian plains that ended with a decisive Soviet victory with two important results: Japan reoriented its strategic emphasis toward the south, leading to war with the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands; and Russia freed itself from the fear of fighting on two fronts, thus vitally affecting the course of the war with Germany.
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