1943

This page relates to the year 1943 of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Second world war

  • January 1943

    • - 13: Hitler proclaims the “All-out war”.
    • - 14: Opening to Anfa of a conference joining together Churchill and Roosevelt, which decides that the Allies will unload in Italy in 1943 and in 1944 in France. The Germany, the Italy and the Japan will have to capitulate without conditions.
    • - 24: Hitler orders with its troops to fight with dead against Soviet to hold the town of Stalingrad

  • February 1943

    • - 2: Soviet Victoire with Stalingrad: capitulation of the German Life armed with Friedrich Paulus.
    • - 8: Jean-Marie Arthus (15 years in 1940), Jacques Baudry (18 years), Pierre Benoit (15 years), Pierre Grelot (17 years) and Lucien Legros (16 years) are shot by the French gendarmerie. They will be called the 5 martyrs of the Buffon College.
    • - 9: The Japanese fold up Guadalcanal. The general Hideki Tōjō starts to understand that it can lose the war. The Americans have from now on an important base for the protection of the Australia and the reconquest of the Northern Pacific.

  • March 1943

    • - 15: A German Sous-marin runs off the steamer Empress Canada off Freetown in South Africa, 400 dead

  • May 1943

    • - 12 - 27: The Conférence Trident with Washington ratifies the principle of an unloading on the French coasts. Churchill makes some push back the realization in spring 1944.
    • - 30: Charles de Gaulle settles with Algiers

  • June 1943

    • - 21: Arrest of Jean Moulin, Raymond Aubrac, and the other resistant ones who held a secret meeting in the house of Dr. Dugoujon Caluire-and-To cook, close to Lyon. The controversy still remains with knowing if Klaus Barbie had succeeded in forcing Rene Hardy (known as Didot) to denounce his comrades under the threat to see its been engaged, Lydie Bastien, to undergo the fate of the traitors.

  • July 1943

    • - 8: Jean Moulin, chief of French Resistance, dies in deportation, in the train which transported it towards Germany, following ill treatments and of an absence of care. Mill will be remained quiet on the activities of resistance until its death (° 1899).
    • - 10: Unloading of Combined in Sicily
    • - 12: The Soviet army launches a counter-offensive in the sector of covering of Orel.
    • - 24: the Opération Gomorrah starts: British planes and Canadian bombard Hamburg the night, the American the day. At the end of the operation in November, 9.000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30.000 people and will destroy 280.000 buildings.
    • - 28: Operation Gomorrah - the Britanniques bombard Hamburg causing a Tempête of fire which kills 42.000 German civilians .

  • August 1943

    • - 17: Conference Quadrant joined together with Quebec between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt (in which takes part the Canadian Mackenzie King and the Chinese T.V. Soong, representing Guomindang. The unloading in the north of France is planned for on May 1st 1944 and will be supplemented by an unloading in the south of the country. To decrease the German pressure on the side of the Soviet Union, the Allies decide also unloading on the Italian peninsula, the objective being the unconditional surrender of Italy.

  • September 1943

    • 2 - September 9th: Unloading combined in Italy of the South - Beginning of the countryside of Italy. The secret armistice signed on September 3rd between Italians and Combined is made public the 8.
    • 8: Release of the insurrection in Corsica, leading to the release of the island after one month of combat.
    • 15: Agreements Speer - Bichelonne.

  • October 1943

    • - 13: The Italy declares the war with the Germany.
    • - 18: Third conference of Moscow between the Allies (end the November 11th).

  • November 1943

    • 11: the Maquis of Ain and the High-Jura ravels in the town of Oyonnax.
    • 20: Attacks amphibians of the forces of the American admiral Chester Nimitz against the islands Gilbert. After three months of engagements very hard, the navy seizes Tarawa and Makin.
    • - 22: Conference of Cairo, which joins together Churchill, Roosevelt and Tchang Kaï-chek. The Allies are committed intervening against the Japanese in Burma. It is decided that the Japan will have to restore after the defeat all the conquered territories.
    • - 28: the Conference of Teheran, which joins together for the first time Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill starts (fine on February 1st). Many discussions were devoted to the plan of unloading in France (Opération Overlord), fixed at spring 1944. The Polish territorial question is not solved, not more than that of the future organization of Germany, for which various plans of dismemberment are considered.

  • December 1943

    • - 24: The general Eisenhower is named commander-in-chief of the allied forces which will unload in Normandy

Europe

  • August 29th: Interruption of the democratic regime to the Denmark by the will of the German command (fine the May 5th 1945).
  • September 26th: The troops of the Division Azul are withdrawn from the Russian face.
  • October 1st: Franco returns to strict neutrality.
  • December 16th: A decree of the federal Parlement of the Swiss Confédération adopts the federal law relating to the legal organization whose coming into effect is fixed at January 1st 1945.

  • nonwell informed or unknown Dates :

    • the United Kingdom: The production of supplies of war absorbs 60% of GNP. The Minister for Labor Ernest Bevin recourse to the procedure of “civil conscription” which makes it possible to affect authority 17 million workers, including 8 million women, in the mines and the factories. The financing of the effort of war is ensured by the tax (the maximum rate of the income tax reaches 97,5%, the profits of war are taxed at 100%, of the very heavy rights are imposed on alcohol and the tobacco), by the budget deficit and the recourse to the loan (8,4 billion £ of subscription, 5,4 borrowed from the the United States, 2,7 with the the Commonwealth).
    • Transfer with Combined of a base to the the Azores by the Portugal.

Italy

  • March 2nd: Vagueness of strikes organized by the Communists in Lombardy and with the Piedmont, involving 300  000 workmen. The fascistic trade unions lose any representativeness.
  • May: The Italian forces in Africa capitulate with Tunis vis-a-vis the counter-offensive allied.
  • July 10th: Unloading of the Anglo-American forces in Sicily.
  • July 19th:
    • Mussolini meets Hitler with Feltre.
    • Rome is bombarded by the Allies.
  • July 22nd: Palermo is taken by the Allies. The Sicilians accommodate the Allies like liberators.
  • July 25th:
    • the Germans invade the north of the country.
    • the fascistic mode crumbles: put in minority by the Great fascistic Council (motion Grown, July 24th), Mussolini is stopped on order of the king and is transferred onto the island of Ponza.
  • July 26th: The marshal Pietro Badoglio form a new government.
  • July 28th: The fascistic left east dissolves.
  • August 17th: The Americans enter Messine. The Sicily is conquered.
  • August 19th: The workmen of the factories of Italy of North put themselves in strike.
  • Mid-August: The Italian government contacts the Allies with Lisbon and continues the negotiations in Sicily and Tunisia for the conclusion of an armistice.
  • 27 - August 28th: Altiero Spinelli founds with Milan the European federalistic Mouvement (MFE).
  • September 3rd:
    • Of the British and Canadian troops unloads with Reggio of Calabria under the command of Montgomery.
    • secret Signature of the capitulation of the Italian army by the general Castellano ( Shorts Military Armistice ).
  • September 8th: The armistice between into force. Taken courses, Badoglio, the king Victor-Emmanuel III of Italy and the crown prince must flee in territory combined to escape the Germans.
  • September 9th:
    • American Unloading in the gulf of Salerno, where they meet a sharp resistance of the Germans.
    • Organization of the resistance in Italy, gathering former regular soldiers, prisoners of war English or American released on September 8th, refractories with obligatory work in Germany or the conscription. As of the autumn, they organize the first actions of sabotage and attacks of German convoys. Constitution with Naples of the Committee of national release of Benedetto Croce and of the count Sforza, sunken antifascists of exile.
  • September 10th: The king unloads with Brindisi.
  • September 13rd:
    • Mussolini, which was held in the the Abruzzi, is released by a commando parachutist directed by Otto Skorzeny on order of Hitler.
    • Foundation of a Committee of national release chaired by Ivanoe Bonomi and which gathers communist, socialist, liberal, Christian-Democrats. The Committee requires the abdication of the king Victor-Emmanuel III.
  • September 18th: Mussolini proclaims with Salò, on banks of the Lake Garda, a Italian Social republic. At the end of September, the Germans occupy two thirds of Italy.
  • September 25th: Badoglio sign with Malta with the Allies a more detailed armistice.
  • October 1st: Entry in American Naples of Ve armed. The Germans set fire to the city before evacuating it.
  • October 13rd: The government Badoglio declares the war with the Germany.
  • 17 - October 19th: First clashes enter the German forces and of the groups of partisans the Province of Lecco in Lombardy.
  • November 15th: Congress of the republican fascistic party with Vérone. The party returns at its socializing origins and recommends the end of capitalism. The socialization of the means of production becomes the main objective of the “Italian Social republic”.
  • November - December: New strikes with Milan and Turin.
  • December 3rd: Beginning of the engagements in the sector of the Mount Cassin.

France

See also: 1943 in France

Central & Balkan Europe

  • January: The chief of the Rumanian government Mihaïl Antonescu advises with Mussolini to withdraw war, which would make it possible the Romania to follow it.
  • March 1st: “Declaration of the Dolomites”, conceding with the communist partisans the role directing in Yugoslavia. The National committee of release created by the AYNOS extends its military operations in Yugoslavia, constituting an army of more than 100  000 soldiers and taking the control of more than 100  000 km ² of released zones.

*: Massive raid of Anglo-American aviation on the refineries of Ploieşti, in Romania.

  • Be: Organization in Romania of the patriotic Face antihitlérien.
  • August-September, Hungary: Sudden IIe armed Hungarian with heavy losses on the Russian face with Voronej on the Gift: in August, the government engages vainly of the steps for peace near the allied powers. A diplomatic agent of Kállay, László Veress, receives in Istanbul the September 9th a message not signed of Anthony Eden concerning the conditions that the Hungary must fill for a favorable treatment by the Allies. The Hungarian government tergiversates. He recognizes the government of Mussolini released by a commando S the September 29th.
  • September: After the capitulation of the Italy, many Italian regiments come to reinforce Yugoslav resistance.
  • October 11th: The partisans of Tito reach the suburbs of Zagreb and are to 40 km of Belgrade. British and American military missions make the junction with the army of release to the end of the year.
  • November: Creation by Rumanian Communists exiled in Soviet Union of division Tudor Vladimirescu, included in the Red Army and recruited among the Rumanian prisoners of war.
  • November 29th, Yugoslavia: The National committee of release, installed with Jajce, exerts the powers in fact of a provisional government. Refusing to recognize the authority of the government in exile, it establishes a National parliament in December. The rupture with the king Pierre II is temporarily isolated thanks to the mediation of the British. The Council is represented in the government in exile and Tito, raised with the rank of marshal, replaces Draža Mihajlović as commander-in-chief of the Yugoslav army. The Council antifascist of national release decides to transform Yugoslavia into a Federal state and Socialist.
  • the Conférence of Teheran at the end of November puts an end to any project of Balkan intervention to the profit of the unloading in the Atlantic. The Allies cannot require the unconditional surrender of the Hungary which they are not able to protect from the Germans.
  • December 12th: Edvard Beneš sign with the USSR a treaty of mutual assistance and co-operation. This agreement envisages the voluntary incorporation of the Czechoslovakia in the Soviet sphere, the socialization of the means of production and the elimination of the enemies of the Soviet Union.

Poland

Russia

  • January 1st: The general Joukov takes the command of the operations with Stalingrad.
  • January 18th: The Soviet troops manage to break the surrounding of Leningrad, isolated since the autumn 1941.
  • February 2nd: German rendering of Paulus to the Battle of Stalingrad (begun in November 1942). This defeat is the first of the Germans in Europe.
  • May 15th: Dissolution of the {{Romanian|III|3}} {{E}} International communist.
  • July 5th: German offensive on the line Orel - Koursk - Bielgorod. They make a breakthrough only at the price of heavy losses.
  • July 12th: The Soviet counter-offensive on the face of Koursk engages the greatest battle of tank of the History, which ends in the failure of the Germans and mark a decisive turn.
  • August 23rd: Soviet takes again Kharkov, evacuated by the Germans. The Russian counter-offensive is uninterrupted on all the sectors: Ukraine, the Crimea, Karelia, Eastern Prussia, Silesia.
  • September 11th: Destruction of the ghetto of Minsk.
  • October 7th: Offensive of autumn of the Soviets. Large the battles of Dniepr and committed.
  • November 6th: The Red Army enters Kiev evacuated by the Germans.
  • November 26th: Fall of Gomel, in Bielorussia, the last not of supports German in the east of the Dniepr.

Africa

  • Occupation of the French Somalia by the Allies.

North Africa

  • January 23rd: The troops of Montgomery take Tripoli, at the end of a projection of 1800 km carried out over three months since El-Alamein.
  • January 26th: The troops of Montgomery make the junction with the French column of the general Leclerc, who with taken the control of the Italian Fezzan.
  • February 10th: Proclamation of the Algerian people which claim an Algerian constitution and a government (Ferhat Abbas).
  • February 14th: Force Italian-German counter-offensive in Tunisia against the Allies. After some victories, the German push is contained at the end of the month. Entry of the American troops with Bizerte and of the British troops with Tunis.
  • March 9th: Rommel is recalled in Germany. The general Von Arnim succeeds to him the head of the Afrikakorps.
  • April 27th: The general Giraud agrees to share with De Gaulle the direction of the executive made up with Algiers.
  • May 7th: The French take Bridge-of-Fahs (Tunisia).
  • May 12th: Major defeat of the Germans and the Italians in Tunisia against the allies (250  000 prisoners). The general von Arnim capitulates.
  • May 30th: De Gaulle arrives at Algiers and engages as of the shortly after the political negotiations with Giraud.
  • June 3rd: Creation of the French Committee of the national Release (CFLN) coprésidé by De Gaulle and Giraud.
  • July 31st: New division of the executive power: Giraud will be in charge of the military businesses, De Gaulle reserving the general policy.
  • September 17th: The CFLN creates a Consultative Assembly which will be made up members of interior Resistance, resistance external and former elected officials of the IIIe République.
  • October 2nd: End of the co-presidency of the CFLN. De Gaulle overrides Giraud.
  • December 12th: In its speech of Constantine, De Gaulle promises to the Moslems a more close integration.
  • December 23rd: Foundation of the socialist party Istiqlal with the Morocco.

The Middle East & Arab world

  • January: Under the British pressure, the general Catroux, High-Commissioner of the free France with Raising, announces the re-establishment of the republican order and the elections in Syria and with the Lebanon.
  • February: A parliamentary declaration of Anthony Eden implies that the Great Britain would be favorable to a certain form of Arab unit.
  • March 30th: the Egyptian nationalist government of Nahhas Pasha seizes the occasion and invites the Arab governments to send to the Cairo representatives to discuss the question of the Arab unit. The British prohibit however the arrival of deputy of Palestine and North Africa. The Saudi Arabia is hesitant. One discusses of the creation of a State “large Syrian” but the representatives Lebanese oppose it. The Syrian delegation proposes to make to Damas the guarantor of the national pact of 1943. These consultations lead to the project of meeting of a preparatory congress to discuss the form which will take the Arab unit. On the insistence of the Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, it is agreed that this unit could be only one association of independent States. The Egypt is favorable to this formula.
  • July: In Syria, the national Bloc gains the victory with the elections.
  • August 18th: Shukri Al-Kuwatli, leader of the national Bloc is elected president of the Republic in Syria (fine in 1949).
  • September 21st: The nationalists triumph with the elections with Beirut and recommend a modification of the Constitution whose terms are “incompatible with independence”. The representative of France, Yves Helleu, opposes it. The Room of Beirut passes in addition to and abolishes the French mandate in November.
  • November 11th: The Helleu ambassador makes stop the president of the Lebanon Béchara el-Khoury and the chief of the government Riad Al-Sulh, and replaces the President of the Republic by Emile Eddé (fine the November 22nd). A “national” government Lebanese is constituted at once in the mountain, supported by the president of Syria Shukri Al-Kuwatli and the British. Violent demonstrations burst in all the country. Catroux is sent urgently to Beirut and restores the status quo. In the following months, France transfers all official competences to the governments Syrian and Lebanese. Political independence is recognized, but France preserves until the end of the war the control of the special troops of Raising and always conditions independence with the concluding of a treaty.

  • Roosevelt comes into contact with Ibn Sa' ud to expose the plan to him Philby of 1941. The Saoudi sovereign refuses categorically. The US president makes prepare a project of Palestine internationalized, directed by a control committee made up representatives of the three religions of the Book.

Asia & India

  • Inversion of the situation to the profit of the Allies in the Far East.
  • May 20th: Tchang Kaï-chek becomes president of the China.
  • May, Japan: Creation of the Ministry for Large Asia. Creation of a “perimeter of absolute defense”.

  • the Kazakhstan becomes a place of relegation of the people “punished” by Stalin in 1943 - 1944, which will accentuate its character pluriethnic.

  • Indonesia: The nationalist movement benefits from the offers of the Japanese government, which releases its leaders. Soekarno and Hatta organizes a movement of mass, the Petara which diffuses the nationalist ideals. The Japanese accept the formation of a nationalist militia, the Peta , which will form the core of the future army indonésienne.
  • Indonesia: The Japanese order the destruction of half of the plantations of coffee-trees (30% will be destroyed indeed).

India

  • One of the revolutionary chiefs, Subhash Chandra Bump, escapes, raises an Indian national army made up of prisoners of war (Indian National Army, INA), and aegis of the Japan, form a government of free India ( October).
  • October: Lord Wavell is named viceroy of the Indies. He restores the order and creates favorable conditions with the possible transfer of the capacity.

  • Large Famine with the Bengal. More than three million victims.

  • Ali Jinnah reorganizes the Moslem Ligue which becomes the Musulman principal party.

Oceania & the Pacific

  • February-November: Reoccupying of the the Solomon Islands then reconquest of the Pacific by the Allies as from November.

Americas

  • March 1st: Juan Jose de Amézaga, president of the Uruguay (fine in 1947).
  • April, the United States: Blocking of the prices and the wages accompanied by subsidies for maintains purchasing power of the farmers.
  • June 4th: Populist coup d'etat in Argentinian putting an end to the “infamous decade”. Ramón Castillo is reversed by the GOU (Grupo de Oficiales Unidos or Group of the Plain Officers). Arturo Rawson, then Pedro Pablo Ramírez (June 7th) presidents de facto (fine in 1944).
  • June, the United States: Smith-Connally Act on the trade unions. Restriction of the right to strike in industries of war.
  • November: The colonel Juan Perón is named Minister for Labor and Forecast in Argentine.
  • December 20th: Coup d'etat in Bolivia perpetrated by young officers reformists directed by the lieutenant Gualberto Villarroel and supported by the Nationalist movement revolutionary (MNR), party with the inclinations fascisant and racist, which allots all misfortunes of the country to the barons of tin (almost all of foreign origin) and to the Jews. During three years, Villaroel and the MNR reinforce the State and try an incorporation of the popular layers (end in 1946).

  • the Bolivia and the Colombia enter in war.

  • Strike of the minors to the the United States. The President must yield.
  • the Quebec request by decree restitution of the Labrador.
  • Adoption of the Law of obligatory education to the Canada.

Arts & cultures

See also: 1943 with the cinema, 1943 in music, 1943 in literature, 1943 with the theater, 1943 as a cartoon, 1943 on television

Painting

Sciences & technology

See also: 1943 in science

See also: 1943 in aeronautics

Sports

Births in 1943

Death in 1943

  • June 10th: Abd Al-Aziz Ibn Al-Hassan, Sultan of Morocco.

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