The Year 1943 From The People History

1943 Following American involvement in the war manufacturers around the US became as efficient at producing war machines as they had been producing other goods with companies like ford and GM managing to change from cars to bombs and aircraft engines and at the same time due to the number of men overseas fighting the war using more women for manufacturing a total of 18 million women were employed. Due to shortages America sees it's first rationing. Italian and German forces surrender in North Africa as the war in Europe starts to turn the Allies way. The Glenn Miller Orchestra provided the most popular music of the time.
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World War II 1943

• In the United States, it is announced that shoe rationing Canned food, meat, cheese, butter and cooking oils will go into effect

• German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakow.

• German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.

• British deception plan " The Man Who Never Was" or Operation Mincement executed.

• Mussolini Resigns in Italy and Surrender Of Italy is announced on September 8th

• Budapest more than 2,000 citizens sent to Concentration Camps

• America takes control of Guadalcanal

• The Allied leaders of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union meet for the first time in Iran

• The Dambuster Raids by RAF 617 Sqdn on 17th May on German dams

• Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising against the Nazi's

• The British and Americans bomb Hamburg on July 24th causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.

• Future President Lt. John F. Kennedy's command the PT-109 is sunk by a Japanese destroyer

• US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the supreme Allied commander

What Events Happened in 1943

• Great Depression ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to World War II-related employment

• The Works Progress Administration ( PWA ) designed to provide jobs during the Great Depression of the 1930's is ended.

• Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C is Completed

• Due to shortages in Copper the U.S. one-cent coin is struck in steel

• Montana Coal and Iron Company Explosion Kills 74

• Bengal, India famine leaving up to 3 million dead.

• Lebanon Gains Independence From France

• "Pay As You Go tax" introduced in US

• Car Tax Registration introduced in US

• The Pentagon in Washington D.C. is Completed

Popular Culture

The Golden Globe Awards Start

Popular Films

• For Whom the Bell Tolls



• Heaven Can Wait



• Lassie Come Home



• The Titanic 1943

Popular Music

• Frank Sinatra
• " In The Mood " By Glenn Miller



• Oklahoma Musical Opens on Broadway

Technology

• Development of the Colossus computer by British to break German encryption

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Aqualung France by J Cousteau and E Gagnon

Major World Political Leaders 1943

Australia Prime Minister John Curtin

Brazil President Getúlio Vargas

Canada Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

Germany Chancellor Adolf Hitler

Italy Prime Minister Benito Mussolini Till 25 July

Italy Prime Minister Marshal Pietro Badoglio From 25 July

Japan Prime Minister Hideki Tojo

Mexico President Manuel Ávila Camacho

Russia / Soviet Union
General Secretary of the Central Committee Joseph Stalin

South Africa Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt

United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill



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