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The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each. [1]
History of the United States (1918–1945) Timeline of United States history (1930–1949) ... Events from the year 1942 in the United States. Incumbents
1942, clockwise from top left: British artillery barrage opens the Battle of El Alamein; the Jews of Salonika are rounded up for deportation to extermination camps; Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War fight the Battle of Stalingrad; USS Lexington (CV-2) under fire at the Battle of the Coral Sea; Reinhard Heydrich's car after attack by Czech resistance; 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking troops ...
June 21–22, 1942 – Bombardment of Fort Stevens, the second attack on a U.S. military base in the continental U.S. in World War II. September 9, 1942, and September 29, 1942 – Lookout Air Raids, the only attack by enemy aircraft on the contiguous U.S. and the second enemy aircraft attack on the U.S. continent in World War II.
The Battle of Port Moresby began over Port Moresby, Papua.; The Battle of Ambon ended in Japanese victory.; Erwin Rommel's forces captured Timimi in Libya. The British Eighth Army fell back and began establishing what would soon be known as the Gazala Line.
9–29 January – 1942 Betteshanger miners' strike in the Kent Coalfield. 10 January – World War II: Liverpool Blitz ends with German bombs dropped in the Stanhope Street area of the city, with nine people dying and many more suffering injuries. Among the houses destroyed in the bombing is the former home of Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois ...
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus in 1942. The Stranger by Albert Camus in 1942. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1943. Anti-Semite and Jew by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1943. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand in 1943. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1944. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren in 1945. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne ...
The Japanese Empire captured the British stronghold of Singapore, with fighting lasting from 8 to 15 February 1942. Singapore was the foremost British military base and economic port in South–East Asia and had been of great importance to British interwar defence strategy. The capture of Singapore resulted in the largest British surrender in ...