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| 1942 November |
| | | In a few weeks Montgomery and the Eighth Army push Rommel back some 1200 miles, into Tunisia | |
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| 1942 November 8 |
| | | American and British forces, under Dwight Eisenhower, land in Morocco and Algeria | |
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| 1942 November 11 |
| | | Hitler, disregarding the armistice, sends German troops to take control of Vichy France | |
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| 1942 November 12 |
| | | After three days of resistance the French commanders in north Africa bring their troops over to the Allied side | |
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| 1942 November 25 |
| | | Soviet tanks complete the encirclement of 20 German divisions at Stalingrad | |
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| 1942 November 27 |
| | | French crews in Toulon scuttle the fleet to prevent it falling into German hands | |
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| 1942 December 2 |
| | | Enrico Fermi and his team in Chicago achieve the first nuclear chain reaction | |
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| 1942 December 2 |
| | | The loss of merchant shipping to U-boats reaches a peak in the Battle of the Atlantic, with 1.5 million tons sunk in the last quarter of the year | |
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| 1942 December 17 |
| | | An international declaration condemns Germany's 'bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination' | |
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| 1943 |
| | | French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre expounds his theory of existentialism in Being and Nothingness ('L'Être et le néant') | |
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