In the years 1943 and 1944, the world was still involved in World War Two, which had broken out in Europe in 1939 and the invasion of China by Japan in 1937. The US entered in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

 

In 1943, the Allies "launched an amphibious invasion of Sicily" and Italy surrenders to the Allies and joins the War on their side (eHistory Archive). The German Forces in North Africa surrendered, and the German 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad.

 

In German-Occupied France the Resistance Leader Jean Moulin was killed.

 

Several conferences are held, including the Casablanca Conference and the Teheran Conference.

 

Another global event of 1943 was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began on April 19, 1943 and lasted about a month. The resistance was a fight against German soldiers by Polish Jews who didn't want to go to Treblinka Death Camp. Although they didn't win, it was still an important event.

 

At home, the President was Franklin D Roosevelt and the Vice President was Henry A Wallace, the Chinese Exclusions Acts were repealed by FDR, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opened, Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair won a Pulitzer Prize and the government instituted the Income Tax. Unrelated to the War, 1943 also boasted the first successful use of penicillin.

 

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