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This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II from 1942. ==January 1942== :1: Twenty-six Allied countries signed the Declaration by United Nations during the Arcadia Conference.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1942 Timeline )〕 :2: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. They also take Cavite naval base, and the American and Filipino troops continue the retreat into Bataan.〔 :5: The beginning of a major Red Army offensive under General Zhukov. :6: The British advance continues to El Agheila, on the western edge of Libya. ::In his State of the Union speech, President Roosevelt promises more aid to Britain, including planes and troops. :7: The Soviet Winter counter-offensive comes to a halt, after having pushed the exhausted and freezing German Army back 62–155 mi from Moscow. 'Operation Barbarossa' had failed. ::Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins. ::Heavy air attacks on Malta; it is estimated that the bomb tonnage dropped on the island is twice that dropped on London. :8: Japanese troops penetrated the outer lines of defense at Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.〔 :9: Japanese advances in Borneo meet with little opposition. :10: Japan declares war on the Netherlands.〔 :11: Japanese troops capture Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. ::Japan invades the Dutch East Indies. :13: The Red Army takes Kirov and Medya, as its counter-offensive continues. ::The German U-boat offensive comes closer to the US shores starting the Second Happy Time. :15: German authorities begin to deport Jews from the Lodz ghettos to the Chelmno Concentration Camp.〔 :19: Japanese forces take large numbers of British troops prisoner, north of Singapore. :20: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide that the "final solution to the Jewish problem" is relocation, and later extermination. ::Japanese bomb Singapore as their troops approach the city. :21: Rommel's Afrika Korps begins a surprise counter-offensive at El Agheila; his troops, with new reinforcements and tanks, capture Agedabia, then push north to Beda Fomm. : At the Vilna Ghetto the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye a Jewish partisan organisation is established, including Aba Kovner :23: The Battle of Rabaul, on New Britain begins. :24: American troops land in Samoa, as part of a strategy to stop the Japanese advance in the Pacific. :25: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom ::Japanese troops invade the Solomon Islands. :26: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland. :27: The British withdraw all troops back into Singapore. :28: Brazil breaks off relations with the Axis powers. :29: Rommel's Afrika Korps recaptures Benghazi, Libya in his drive east. For the next few months, the two sides will rest and rearm. :30: Hitler speaks at the Berlin Sportpalast and threatens the Jews of the world with annihilation; he also blames the failure of the offensive in Soviet Union on the weather. :31: The Japanese take the port of Moulamein, Burma; they now threaten Rangoon as well as Singapore. ::On the Eastern front, the Germans are in retreat at several points. ::The last organised Allied forces leave Malaya, ending the 54-day battle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of World War II (1942)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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