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1940:
Germany occupied Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. German anti-Semitic laws are now enforced in these countries.
Germany stepped up unrestricted submarine warfare, sinking thousands of tons of merchant shipping and killing hundreds of civilians without warning.
Auschwitz concentration camp opened.
500,000 Jews sealed in the Warsaw Ghetto, many being allowed only one suitcase.
United States Selective Service Act required draftees be selected in a racially impartial manner, but the armed forces of the United States were to remain racially segregated.
1941:
Deportation of German and Dutch Jews to concentration camps.
Theresienstadt ghetto opened in Czechoslovakia.
Auschwitz II-Birkenau built as extermination camp.
Coventry, England, destroyed by a German air attack. This was the first massive air raid on an essentially civilian target.
Germany attacked Russia.
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. America declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan. |