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	1942
	French music student Pierre Boulez joins a harmony class taught by Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire

	1942
	Italian director Luchino Visconti's first film, Obsession, brings neorealism to the cinema

	c. 1942
	US poet Ezra Pound, in Italy during the war, broadcasts Fascist propaganda aimed at the United States

	1942
	US poet Randall Jarrell publishes his first collection, Blood for a Stranger

	1942
	Michael Curtiz directs Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca

	1942
	James Cagney stars in the screen musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, directed by Michael Curtiz

	1942
	Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star in the first of many films together, Woman of the Year

	1942
	A rich hoard of Roman silver is unearthed near Mildenhall, in Suffolk

	1942
	English children's author Enid Blyton introduces the Famous Five in Five on a Treasure Island

	1942
	Thornton Wilder's play The Skin of our Teeth has a mixed reception at its New Haven premiere

	1942
	US crooner Bing Crosby sings Irving Berlin's White Christmas

	1942 January
	Aung San's Burma Independence Army enters Burma as part of the Japanese invasion

	1942 January
	Before the end of the month the Japanese control the whole of Malaya

	1942 January 20
	Reinhard Heydrich convenes a meeting at Wannsee to discuss the practical details of the 'final solution'

	1942 February
	Arthur Harris is put in charge of British Bomber Command, and is later much criticized for his ruthless approach

	1942 February
	Joseph Stilwell is appointed to head the US military mission to Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)

	1942 February
	An Indian National Army is formed among Indian soldiers captured by the Japanese, with the purpose of evicting the British from India

	1942 February
	Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, is put in charge of Germany's armaments programme

	1942 February 1
	Vidkun Quisling, founder of the Norwegian Fascist party, is appointed president of German-occupied Norway

	1942 February 15
	Singapore falls to the continuing Japanese onslaught in southeast Asia

	1942 February 19
	Japanese aircraft attack Australia, bombing Darwin's harbour and air force base

	1942 March
	The Nazis build a new style of concentration camp, at Auschwitz in Poland, in which the fit will work and the unfit will be killed

	1942 from March
	German industrial enterprises are moved from the vulnerable Ruhr valley to the slave labour facilities of Auschwitz

	1942 March 8
	The Japanese invasion of Papua signals the start of the three-year New Guinea campaign

	1942 April
	British engineer Barnes Wallis designs a bouncing and rotating bomb for use against German dams

	1942 April
	Pierre Laval becomes head of the government in German-backed Vichy France

	1942 April
	Germany launches a bombing campaign specifically targeting historic British cities with three stars in the Baedeker guidebook

	1942 April 15
	George VI awards the George Cross (for civilian valour) to the entire besieged island of Malta

	1942 April 18
	US planes, flying from an aircraft carrier, undertake a difficult bombing raid on Tokyo

	1942 May
	After losing the Philippines to the Japanese, Douglas MacArthur declares 'I shall return'

	1942 May
	Burma becomes the last in the series of important southeast Asian territories to fall into Japanese hands

	1942 May
	German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer flies to neutral Sweden to contact the British on behalf of conspirators against Hitler

	1942 May
	William Slim gets the remaining British forces back to India from Burma, in a fighting withdrawal that lasts two months

	1942 May 27
	Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded by Free Czech agents parachuted in from Britain

	1942 May 31
	Three Japanese midget submarines penetrate Sydney harbour in Australia

	1942 June 7
	US physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is appointed director of the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon

	1942 June 7
	US planes sink four Japanese aircraft carriers in the battle of Midway, halting for the first time Japan's aggressive expansion

	1942 June 9
	Hitler orders a massacre at Lidice, a village near Prague, in retaliation for the death of Heydrich

	1942 June 21
	German general Erwin Rommel captures Tobruk, along with 33,000 British soldiers and valuable supplies

	1942 July
	Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in an Amsterdam attic

	1942 July
	Treblinka is constructed, in Poland, as the Nazis' first large-scale and purpose-built death camp

	1942 July
	A renewed German campaign eastwards in Russia results in the capture of Sebastopol and the Crimea

	1942 July
	Russia's new heavy industry is relocated to the east to escape the German advance

	1942 July 4
	Auchinleck finally stops Rommel's advance, in the first battle of El Alamein

	1942 August
	US general Dwight Eisenhower is appointed to command Allied landings in north Africa

	1942 August 7
	US and Japanese forces begin a violent six-month struggle for Guadalcanal, one of the Solomon Islands

	1942 August 13
	Bernard Montgomery is appointed commander of the demoralized British and Commonwealth Eighth Army in North Africa

	1942 August 19
	Canadian troops provide most of the assault force in a disastrous raid on Dieppe

	1942 August 30
	Rommel's new thrust towards Alexandria is halted by the British at Alam al-Halfa, a ridge near El Alamein

	1942 September 13
	A desperate battle begins for the city of Stalingrad, with house-to-house fighting between Germans and Russians

	1942 October 3
	The German V-2 rocket is successfully tested by Wernher von Braun and his team at Peenemünde

	1942 October 23
	Montgomery launches the second battle of El Alamein against Rommel

	1942 November
	In a few weeks Montgomery and the Eighth Army push Rommel back some 1200 miles, into Tunisia

	1942 November 8
	American and British forces, under Dwight Eisenhower, land in Morocco and Algeria

	1942 November 11
	Hitler, disregarding the armistice, sends German troops to take control of Vichy France

	1942 November 12
	After three days of resistance the French commanders in north Africa bring their troops over to the Allied side

	1942 November 25
	Soviet tanks complete the encirclement of 20 German divisions at Stalingrad

	1942 November 27
	French crews in Toulon scuttle the fleet to prevent it falling into German hands

	1942 December 2
	Enrico Fermi and his team in Chicago achieve the first nuclear chain reaction

	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

	1942 December 17
	An international declaration condemns Germany's 'bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination'

	1943
	French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre expounds his theory of existentialism in Being and Nothingness ('L'Être et le néant')

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