Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food Read Free Page A

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11 September: Japanese advance up Kokoda Trail stops at Iorabaiwa, 51 kilo-metres from Port Moresby.
October: German bread and meat rations increased. Cyclone hits district of Midnapur in Bengal. Australia introduces sugar rationing.
2 October: US marines land on Ellice Islands (Tuvalu).
October–November: second battle of El Alamein.
October–July 1944: Majdanek functions as an extermination camp.
November: sinkings of British merchant fleet reach their peak. General Plan for the East put into practice in the Polish district of Lublin.
2 November: Australians recapture Kokoda.
8 November: Operation Torch begins with Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria.
13 November: Tydings amendment to the Selective Service Law allows for more farmers to be made exempt from the US draft.
16 November: US and Australian troops begin assault on Japanese at Buna-Gona bridgehead, New Guinea.
19 November: Red Army launches counter-attack to retake Stalingrad.
22 November: German 6th Army in Stalingrad is encircled by the Soviets.
December: German plans for the General Plan for the East calculate that 70 million people will be deported. Beveridge Report published in Britain.
10 December: Australians capture Gona area, New Guinea.
1942–43
Bengal famine, Henan famine.
1943
US intensifies submarine blockade of Japan.
January: Churchill announces 60 per cent reduction in British shipping in the Indian Ocean.
2 January: Allies capture Buna, New Guinea.
18 January: Red Army breaks through to relieve Leningrad from the east.
31 January: German 6th Army surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad.
8 February: Japanese complete the evacuation of their forces from Guadalcanal.
18 February: in Germany Goebbels announces the implementation of total war.
March: Australians set up Army Catering Corps.
29 March: US introduces meat rationing at 28 ounces a week.
1 April: US introduces rationing for canned goods, fats and cheese.
May: Basic (Food) Plan introduced in India. German meat and fat ration cut.
May–June: Hot Springs Food Conference.
29 June: Operation Cartwheel, the Allied offensive to retake the south-west Pacific, begins.
July: Battle of Kursk.
25 July: Italian coup, Mussolini arrested.
August: Japanese high command announce that troops on New Guinea will now be self-sustaining. Harlem Riot.
23 August: Soviets recapture Kharkov.
September: Allied landings in Italy.
3 September: Italy signs armistice with Allies.
12 September: Germans rescue Mussolini and set up puppet government in northern Italy.
13 September: Italy declares war on Germany.
15 September: Australians capture Lae, New Guinea.
27 September: Germans begin to evacuate the Ukraine.
2 October: Australians capture Finschhafen, New Guinea.
November: Allies set up UNRRA.
6 November: Soviets recapture Kiev.
15 December: US troops begin landing on New Britain.
1943–44
Tonkin famine in Indo-China.
1944
January–May: Battle of Monte Cassino.
26 January: British launch Arakan attack in Burma.
27 January: the siege of Leningrad ends.
8 February: Australians capture Huon Peninsula, New Guinea.
14 February: US announces that remaining Japanese forces in the Solomons are now trapped.
27 February: US reports about 60,000 Japanese troops now trapped in New Britain and New Ireland.
March: Soviets recapture the Ukraine.
7 March: Japanese launch Imphal–Kohima offensive in Burma.
April–December: Japanese Ichigo offensive in China.
April: Soviets enter Romania.
24 April: US troops secure Hollandia and Aitape, New Guinea, leaving 200,000 Japanese trapped in the area.
3 May: meat rationing lifted in US except on selected cuts of meat.
27 May: MacArthur declares New Guinea campaign over.
3 June: Japanese retreat from Kohima.
20 June: Japanese retreat from Imphal.
6 June: D-Day, Allied landings in Normandy.
15 June: US forces land on Saipan.
18 July: Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan, replaced by Koiso.
20 July: German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler.
September: Allied operation to