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| 1942 |
| | | US crooner Bing Crosby sings Irving Berlin's White Christmas | |
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| 1942 January |
| | | Aung San's Burma Independence Army enters Burma as part of the Japanese invasion | |
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| 1942 January |
| | | Before the end of the month the Japanese control the whole of Malaya | |
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| 1942 January 20 |
| | | Reinhard Heydrich convenes a meeting at Wannsee to discuss the practical details of the 'final solution' | |
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| 1942 February |
| | | Arthur Harris is put in charge of British Bomber Command, and is later much criticized for his ruthless approach | |
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| 1942 February |
| | | Joseph Stilwell is appointed to head the US military mission to Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) | |
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| 1942 February |
| | | An Indian National Army is formed among Indian soldiers captured by the Japanese, with the purpose of evicting the British from India | |
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| 1942 February |
| | | Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, is put in charge of Germany's armaments programme | |
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| 1942 February 1 |
| | | Vidkun Quisling, founder of the Norwegian Fascist party, is appointed president of German-occupied Norway | |
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| 1942 February 15 |
| | | Singapore falls to the continuing Japanese onslaught in southeast Asia | |
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