Africa

• General: Germans and Italians evacuate north
  Allied armies in N Africa are placed under Eisenhower's command
• Egypt: Allied leaders meet in Cairo and agree to liberate Korea after Japanese defeat
• Libya: British Eighth Army reaches Tripoli
• Morocco: Churchill and Roosevelt meet at Casablanca
• Tunisia: Rommel forced into Tunis where Axis surrenders
  Allies take Tunis and Bizerte

Americas

• Argentina: Juan Perón leads revolt of workers
• Canada: Quebec conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Mackenzie King
• Venezuela: Eruption of Paracutin

Asia

• General: 22-ship Japanese convoy sunk in Battle of the Bismarck Sea by US planes
• China: Nationalists stem Japanese offensives
  Famine and disease kills one million
• India: Famine
  Khari river overflows killing 10,000
• Japan: Start of defeat in Pacific
• New Guinea: US forces land

Europe

• Austria: Students Hans and Sophie Scholl distribute anti-Nazi pamphlets in Munich and are caught and executed
• Czechoslovakia: USSR and Czechoslovakia create treaty for postwar cooperation
• France: Committee of National Liberation (resistance) formed under DeGaulle
• Germany: Allied "round-the-clock" bombing of Germany begins - Hamburg bombed 104 times in ten days
  German battleship Scharnhorst sunk killing 1425
  Hitler orders "scorched earth" policy
  RAF bombs Ruhr dams GER
• Great Britain: Blitz
  173 killed in stampede into subway tunnel at Bethnal Green during Blitz
  British liner Rhona bombed by Germans killing 1050
  British fascists Oswald Mosley released from prison after having led "Battle of Cable Street",
• Italy: Germans occupy Milan and Rome
  Allies invade mainland, then Sicily, defeating Italy
  Italian Social Republic forms - Mussolini dismissed
  Marshal Badoglio takes over in Italy
• Norway: Norwegian steamship Kari captured by Germans and then torpedoed killing 1200
• Poland: Jews of Warsaw stage revolt and 60,000 die
  Death of Polish General Wladyslaw Sikorski
• Romania: Ploesti oil fields in Romania bombed by US
• Soviet Union: Russians retake Kiev
  Russians defeat German offensive at Kirsk and Germans surrender at Stalingrad
  Germany withdraws form Caucasus
  Soviets push Germans back through Ukraine

Middle East

• Iran: Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill meet at Tehran
• Lebanon: Independence from France
• Turkey: 7.7 quake

Pacific

• General: American forces advance in Pacific as many Japanese naval units defeated
• Kirabati: Tarawa captured by US forces
• Solomon Islands: Japanese driven from Guadalcanal