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 | 1942-12-22 | V-2 Development Begins | Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. | Read about 'V-2 Development Begins' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'V-2 Development Begins' | |
| 1942-12-04 | Zegota Created | In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Zegota organization to aid the country's Jews and find places of safety for them in occupied Poland. | Read about 'Zegota Created' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Zegota Created' | |
| 1942-12-02 | Enrico Fermi's Reactor | A team led by Enrico Fermi, for whom Fermilab is named, initiated the first artificial self sustaining nuclear chain reaction in an experimental nuclear reactor named Chicago Pile-1. | Read about 'Enrico Fermi's Reactor' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Enrico Fermi's Reactor' | |
| 1942-08-08 | Saboteurs Executed | Six German would-be saboteurs are executed in Washington. They had planed to destroy strategic economic targets inside the United States. | Read about 'Saboteurs Executed ' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Saboteurs Executed ' | |
| 1942-07-28 | Order No. 227 | Stalin issues Order 227, "not a step back". Troops fleeing from the battlefield would be shot and barrier battalions would be created to hover at the rear to perform these executions. In the first 2 months 1000 Soviet soldiers were shot by barrier troops. | Read about 'Order No. 227' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Order No. 227' | |
| 1942-06-22 | Field Marshal Rommel | After the combined Italian/German capture of the vital sea port at Tobruk, Hitler promotes Rommel to the rank of Field Marshal. | Read about 'Field Marshal Rommel' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Field Marshal Rommel' | |
| 1942-04-18 | Laval becomes Vichy PM | Pierre Laval becomes the prime minister of Vichy France. While in office Laval signed orders permitting the deportation of Jews to extermination camps. After the war he was convicted of high treason and executed. | Read about 'Laval becomes Vichy PM' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Laval becomes Vichy PM' | |
| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps. | Read about 'Executive Order 9066' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Executive Order 9066' | |
| 1942-02-04 | Abdeen Palace Incident | British troops force King Farouk of Egypt to abdicate and ask Mustafa el-Nahhas to form a new government. It was hoped that the new government would minimize pro-axis sentiments in the royal court and provide support for the allied war effort. | Read about 'Abdeen Palace Incident' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Abdeen Palace Incident' | |
| 1942-01-12 | National War Labor Board | The National War Labor Board, was reestablished by President Roosevelt. It became a tripartite body and was charged with preventing work stoppages which might hinder the war effort. | Read about 'National War Labor Board' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'National War Labor Board' |
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